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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Plant Biochemistry and Biophysics |
| Keywords | Stress, calcium homoeostasis, protein kinase, protein phosphatase, ion channels |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Berkeley |
| Institution | University of California, Berkeley |
| Institute | Department of Plant and Microbial Biology |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Frantisek Baluska | Institut für Zelluläre und Molekulare Botanik (IZMB), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn |
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| Prof. Dr. Dieter Volkmann | Institut für Zelluläre und Molekulare Botanik (IZMB), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn |
| Prof. Dr. Lukas Schreiber | Institut für Zelluläre und Molekulare Botanik (IZMB), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn |
| Prof. Dr. Peter Dörmann | Institut für Molekulare Physiologie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen (IMBIO), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/04/2009 |
Programme(s)
| 2008 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Luan is one of the most prominent scientists in the area of plant sensor biology. He has made remarkable contributions to calcium sensors in plants under stress conditions, regulation of potassium channels, and the relationship between potassium channels and calcium signaling. Professor Luan discovered that outward potassium channel can be converted to an inward channel by an unique example of "molecular evolution" based on a single amino acid change. He will bring all this expertise to Bonn where it will join the expertise on the actin cytoskeleton, endocytosis, vesicle recycling and transduction of gravity and blue light signal. |