New employees in April-May 2011 - 06.05.2011

Meike Burow, Associate Professor, Section for Molecular Plant Biology from April 1, 2011. 

Meike will work on elucidation of novel regulatory mechanisms in plant metabolism, i.e. pathway-specific protein-protein interactions, identification of molecular targets for RNA-mediated regulation and metabolite sensing.

Damian Paul Drew, Postdoc in Section for Plant Biochemistry from April 1, 2011.

Title of project: Functional metabolites: Investigation of terpenoid biosynthesis in grapes.

Place of work: School of Agriculture Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, Australia until March, 31, 2013, and Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Section for Plant Biochemistry for the period April 1, 2013 until March 31, 2014.

Bianca Naumann-Busch, Postdoc at Section for Molecular Plant Biology from April 1, 2011.

Bianca will identify chloroplast proteins specifically responding to micro nutrient stresses.

Alice De Porcillinis, Research assistant at Section for Molecular Plant Biology from April 1, 2011. 

Alice will work on cyanobacterial carbon fixation for biomass production and endophytes-Arabidopsis interaction.

Bangjun Wang, Postdoc at Section for Transport Biology from April 19, 2011.

Title of project: The Arabidopsis immunophilin, TWISTED DWARF1 (TWD1), regulates ABCB-mediated auxin transport

Mikkel Xin Zhan, PhD student at Section for Plant Biochemistry from May 1, 2011.

Title of project: Engineering of Physcomitrella patens into an Efficient Producer of Fragrance Compounds

Johan Andersen-Randberg, PhD student at Section for Plant Biochemistry from May 1, 2011.

Johan has joined the UNIK synthetic biology team. He will focus on functional characterisation of cytochromes P450 membrane proteins of plant diterpenoid metabolism.

Maria Dalgaard Mikkelsen, Postdoc in Section for Plant Glycobiology from May 1, 2011.

Anne-Mette Bjerg Petersen, Technician in Section for Transport Biology from May 15, 2011.

Pratik Shah, PhD student in Section for Plant Biochemistry from May 31, 2011.

Pratik will join the UNIK Synthetic Biology group. The title of his project is "Development