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Prof. Dr. Ute Krämer is a member of the Leopoldina
Prof. Dr. Ute Krämer has been elected a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
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Cost Action 19116 Plant Metals
The European Cooperation in Science and Technology Cost is funding a four-year project entitled "Cost Action 19116 Plant Metals", which is concerned with trace elements in plants. Ute Krämer is in charge of the scientific communication of the project, which is coordinated by Prof. Dr. Hendrik Küpper from the Biology Center of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
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ERC Grant
Professor Dr. Ute Krämer is delighted to receive a European Research Council Advanced Grant (ERC-AdG). In this five-year 2.5 Mio. € project, we will work towards an understanding of evolutionary adaptations of plants to the composition of their local soils. We will study how such adaptations arise in evolution, which are the contributing gene variants and how these variants act within their functional networks. The project focuses on diversity in the extremophile model plant Arabidopsis halleri. Central approaches are genome-wide association mapping, the mapping of quantitative trait loci using intra-species crosses and extensive transcriptomics studies. (News Release ERC | press release RUB)
Our mission is to develop an integrative molecular-functional understanding of plant interactions with their environment. We address the molecular mechanisms underlying plant acclimation to their dynamic environment as well as evolutionary adaptation in plants. Our work integrates the disciplines of genome-enabled functional genomics, molecular and cell biology, physiology, ecology and evolutionary biology. With a strong emphasis on comparative approaches between and within species, several of our projects combine labwork, the characterization of natural populations in the field and outdoor experiments.
An overview of our research topics can be found here.
Our Work in the Public Media
Unfortunately, the films listed below are currently not available in the public media libraries. If you are interested in the videos for teaching etc., please write to us (send email).
Die Zukunftsmacher im Ruhrgebiet
WDR-Bericht über Menschen mit ganz eigenen Visionen für den „Pott“ und weit darüber hinaus. Verfügbar bis 23.06.2018 © WDR. Beitrag über Ute Krämer ab 33:21 min
3Sat nano about »Phytomining«
A team from »nano« made two short films at the Department of »Molecular Genetics and Physiology of Plants« that can be viewed in the media center of the 3Sat station.
Video 1: »Pflanze zieht Metalle aus verseuchtem Boden«
Video 2: »Kaum Interesse an Wunderkresse«
Arte.tv about »Superplants - Die blühende Revolution«
Die Dokumentation geht dem Phänomen des sogenannten Phytomining beziehungsweise der Phytosanierung, der Entgiftung von verunreinigten Böden durch Pflanzen, auf den Grund. Ein Bericht über Ute Krämer und die Arbeit an unserem Lehrstuhl schliesst die Dokumentation von T. Krause und K. Uhrig ab. Ausgezeichnet mit dem UMSICHT-Wissenschaftspreis des Wissenschaftsforum Ruhr e.V. Leider ist die Dokumentation z.Zt. nicht online.
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Ute Krämer was elected as a member of The North Rhine-Westphalian Academy
of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts