Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung
| Prof. Dr. Paul Schulze-Lefert | Abteilung Molekulare Pflanzengenetik (Prof. Saedler), Max-Planck-Institut für Pflanzenzüchtungsforschung, Köln |
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| Prof. Dr. Elmar Hartmann | Arbeitsgruppe Biochemie der Pflanzen, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin |
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| Beginn der ersten Förderung | 01.08.2001 |
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Projektbeschreibung der*des Nominierenden
| Dr. Tina Romeis receives this prestigious scientific award to establish a research group at the Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research.
The 36-year old Tina Romeis was honoured by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation with the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award amounting to 1,5 million DM. The plant physiologist has up to now been working in Norwich, England, on the molecular control of plant stress reactions in Jonathan Jones' group at the Sainsbury Laboratory. The award was given for her work on signaling processes in plants. The prize money enables her to establish an independet research group in the department for Molecular Phytopathology at the Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne. As from August 2001, she has been supporting Paul Schulze-Lefert's team which works on plant resistance responses agianst plant pathogens. In Cologne, the main focus of Tina Romeis' work will be on a special class of calcium sensors in plant cells which play an important role early in phatogen recognition. Together with her group she will explore an idependet approach which integrates protein biochemical tools with genetics. Her objective is to elucidate the role of components acting early in plant stress signal transduction.
Thina Romeis was overjoyed by the news, as this emphasized that the jury has also recognised the scientific significance of a research field which, by internatonal standards, has been under-represented in Germany. |
