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    Department of Botany I - Plant-Physiology and Biophysics

    Prof. Dr. Dietmar Geiger

    Group Prof. Dietmar Geiger

    Professor for Plant-Physiology
    at the Department for Molecular Plant-Physiologie and Biophysics - Botany I

    University Würzburg
    Biozentre, Julius-von-Sachs-Institute for Biosciences
    Department for Molecular Pflant-Pphysiologie and Biophysics - Botany I
    Julius-von-Sachs-Platz 2
    97082 Wuerzburg
    Germany

    Tel.: +49 (0)931 31-86105
    Fax: +49 (0)931 31-86158

    geiger@botanik.uni-wuerzburg.de


    Room: 218

    Staff

    Uni-Prof. Dr. Dietmar Geiger (Head)

    Eva-Maria Muth (Technical Assistant)

    Kerstin Neuwinger (Technical Assistant)

    Dr. Morten Egevang Jørgensen (Scientific Coworker)

    Dr. Tobias Maierhofer (Scientific Coworker)

    Andreas Michael Geringer (Doctoral Researcher)

    Julian Lehmann (Doctoral Researcher)

    Nadine Schäfer (Doctoral Researcher)

    Research Projects

    Plants take up nutrients via the roots and produce photoassimilates in photosynthetically active leaves. We are interested in the uptake and translocation of nutrients as well as the redistribution of energy-rich carbohydrates derived from photosynthesis. The elucidation of the respective transport proteins using biophysical techniques enables us deep insights into the transport mechanism, the thermodynamics and the structure of ion channels and substrate carriers. The uptake and distribution of nutrients and assimilates via transport proteins are strictly regulated to ensure a demand-dependent and environmentally adjusted activity of the respective carriers and channels. To elucidate these regulatory network, we reconstitute signalling pathways in heterologous expression systems to study the regulation of individual transport proteins without the disturbance by the plant background.