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Prof. Claus Schwechheimer researches the fundamentals of plant growth, primarily using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress). His special focus is on the processes controlled by targeted protein degradation and plant hormones such as auxin and gibberellin. His systems biology work employs genomics and proteomics to generate working hypotheses and investigates using genetic, biochemical, and cell biological methods. His research aims to understand the regulation of auxin transport, protein kinases, and the gibberellic acid signaling pathway. He studied biology and biotechnology at the Universities of Heidelberg and Strasbourg. After completing his doctorate at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, he spent several years as a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University on a grant from the DFG. In 2001, he became an Independent Research Group leader at the Center for Molecular Biology of Plants at the University of Tübingen and was appointed to a professorship at TUM in 2008. From 2011 to 2023, he served as the spokesman for the Collaborative Research Center 924 "Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Yield and Yield Stability in Plants," funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and was co-coordinator of the DFG priority program SPP1365 "The Regulatory Functional Network of Ubiquitin Family Proteins" in Plant-KBBE, focusing on how DELLA proteins control the abiotic stress response and stabilize repressors.
Technical University of Munich • Munich, Germany
Leading research in the field of plant systems biology.