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Department of Plant Developmental Biology
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Group Leaders

Honorary Professor Dr George Coupland

Director

Phone:+49 221 5062 205Fax:+49 221 5062 207

Email: coupland@mpipz.mpg.de

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Seth J. Davis

Research Group Leader

Phone:+49 221 5062 267Fax:+49 221 5062 207

Email: davis@mpipz.mpg.de

Dr. Csaba Koncz

Research Group Leader

Phone:+49 221 5062 230/231/232Fax:+49 221 5062 207/213

Email: koncz@mpipz.mpg.de

Dr. Korbinian Schneeberger

Group Leader

Phone:+49 221 5062 265Fax:+49 221 5062 207

Email: schneeberger@mpipz.mpg.de

Dr. Franziska Turck

Research Group Leader

Phone:+49 221 5062 246Fax:+49 221 5062 207

Email: turck@mpipz.mpg.de

Dr. Maria von Korff Schmising

Group Leader

Phone:+49 221 5062 247Fax:+49 221 5062 207

Email: korff@mpipz.mpg.de

Groups

Control of Flowering Time

My research group is focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms used by plants to detect daylength and to use this information to trigger flowering. We are also interested in how this process interacts with responses to other environmental signals [more]

The circadian system of plants

Our group has spent the last years working on three facets of the biological timing in plants. These are on the core-clock mechanism, light input to the clock, and hormonal regulation of biological timing. This has come to particular fruition in the last two years. [more]

Transcriptional control of stress responses

Our research focuses on understanding the regulatory roles of three functionally interlinked RNAPII transcription regulatory modules that carry subunit homologs of TFIIH general transcription factor, SAGA transcriptional co-activator and spliceosome-activating NTC complexes in Arabidopsis. [more]

Genome Plasticity and Computational Genetics

We develop short read analysis pipelines to execute base calling, i.e. simultaneous detection and annotation of mismatches and gaps between sample and reference sequence. We further extend these alignment-consensus approaches by local assembly methods to reconstruct highly diverged regions. [more]

Transcription Control in Flowering Time

Our group is interested in the regulatory mechanisms that control genes important in plant development. We are particularly interested in the development of new tools that are required to decipher the interconnections of transcriptional networks and chromatin in transcriptional control. [more]

Drought adaptation and flowering time control in barley

Our group uses a quantitative genetics approach and natural genetic diversity in barley to identify mechanisms of drought adaptation in barle and analyse the mechanisms of flowering time control with a focus on the photoperiod pathway

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