Manfred Heinlein
Manfred Heinlein is senior research professor at the CNRS Institute of plant molecular biology (IBMP) in Strasbourg. After his PhD on Barbara McClintock’s transposable elements in maize at the Max Dellbrück Institute of Genetics and the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Breeding in Cologne, he joined Roger Beachy at the Scripps Research Institute where he established in vivo imaging with GFP and other tools to study the cell biology of plant viruses and their movement proteins. In continuing these studies as group leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute (FMI) and assistant professor at the University in Basel, he identified fundamental host factors and processes involved in plant virus infection. At the CNRS his work is focused on molecular plant-virus interactions at the level of defense responses, on developing sustainable approaches for crop protection using RNA sprays, and on molecular mechanisms of plant tolerance for viruses.
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