Thorsten Nuernberger
Current position:
Head, Full Professor Plant Biochemistry, Center of Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP)
Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 32
D-72076 Tübingen, Germany
Phone: + 49-7071 29 76658
e-mail: nuernberger@uni-tuebingen.de
www: http://www.zmbp.uni-tuebingen.de/plant-biochem/research-groups/nuernberger.html
Academic Career:
2006 Call Technical University Munich, Full Professor and Director Institute of Biochemical Phytopathology, Helmholtz-Center for Health and Environment,
since 2003 Full Professor and Head, Department of Plant Biochemistry, Center of Plant Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Tübingen, Germany
2003 Habilitation in Biochemistry, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
1996-2003 Scientific Group Leader, Leibniz-Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB) Halle, Germany
1995-1996 Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
1991-1994 Postdoctoral Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute of Plant Breeding, Köln, Germany
1991 PhD in Biochemistry, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Scholarships, Awards, Memberships
2023- Elected Member EMBO
2022- Scientific Advisory Board Leibniz-Institute of Plant Biochemistry Halle
2022 Reviewing Board Member Severo Ochoa Foundation, Spain
2022 Member European Research Council (ERC) review panel LS9
2018- Honorary Professorship Nanjing Agricultural University
2018- Visiting Professorship University of Johannesburg
2015- Member Scientific Advisory Board Plant Response Biotech (Spain/USA)
2015-2021 Elected Member, German Research Foundation (DFG) Senate for Collaborative Research Consortia
2017- Editorial Board Member Molecular Plant
2011-2022 Board of Reviewing Editors eLIFE
2008-2015 Elected Panel Member 'Plant Sciences' German Research Foundation (DFG)
2006-2012 Senior Editor Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions
2004-2014 Visiting Professorship to University of Helsinki, Finland
2001-2008 Editorial Board Member Planta
1998-2002 Editorial Board Member European Journal of Plant Pathology
1991-1994 Post-Doc Scholarship BAYER AG, Leverkusen, Germany
Current research Topics:
Identification and structural and biochemical characterization of pathogen-associated molecular patterns and their cognate plant pattern recognition receptors;
structural and functional analyses of bacterial and oomycete effectors and NLP cytolysins;
use of plant pattern recognition receptors for biotechnological engineering of disease resistance in crop plants
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