Strasburger Prize: awarded scientists
The DBG awards the Eduard Strasburger Prize founded by Spektrum Akademischer Verlag (now: Springer-Spektrum) since 1994. Every other year an outstanding botanical research carried out by a young doctorate is choosen. The following scientists were endowed with the prize:
2024
Dr. Eliza Loo
Loo E.P.I., Durán P, Pang TP, Westhoff P, Deng C, Durán C, Lercher M., Garido-Oter, R. & Frommer W.B. (2024): Sugar transporters spatially organize microbiota colonization along the longitudinal root axis of Arabidopsis. Cell Host Microbe 32, 543-556.e6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2024.02.014
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2022
Dr. Meike Hüdig
Meike Hüdig, Marcos A Tronconi, Juan P Zubimendi, Tammy L Sage, Gereon Poschmann, David Bickel, Holger Gohlke, Veronica G Maurino (2021): Respiratory and C4-photosynthetic NAD-malic enzyme coexist in bundle sheath cells mitochondria and evolved via association of differentially adapted subunits. The Plant Cell 34, 597-615. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab265
Marcos A. Tronconi, Meike Hüdig, M. Eric Schranz and Veronica G. Maurino (2020): Independent recruitment of duplicated β-subunit-coding NAD-ME genes aided the evolution of C4 photosynthesis in Cleomaceae. Front. Plant Sci. 11, 572080. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.572080
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2019
Dr. Constantin Mario Zohner
Zohner CM (2016): The biogeography, evolution, and function of leaf-out phenology studied with experimental, monitoring, and phylogenetic approaches. Dissertation, Fakultät für Biologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. https://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/21673/1/Zohner_Constantin.pdf
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2017
Dr. Severin Irl
Irl SDH, Harter DEV, Steinbauer MJ, Puyol Gallego D, Fernández-Palacios JM, Jentsch A, Beierkuhnlein C (2015): Climate vs. topography – spatial patterns of plant species diversity and endemism on a high-elevation island. Journal of Ecology, 103, 1621–1633. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12463
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2015
Dr. Andreas Fleischmann
Fleischmann AS, Todd PM, Rivadavia F, Sousa A, Wang W, Temsch EM, Greilhuber J, Müller KF, Heubl G (2014): Evolution of genome size and chromosome number in the carnivorous plant genus Genlisea (Lentibulariaceae), with a new estimate of the minimum genome size in angiosperms. Ann Bot. 114(8): 1651-1663. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcu189
Rivadavia F, Gonella PM, Fleischmann AS (2013): A New and Tuberous Species of Genlisea (Lentibulariaceae) from the Campos Rupestres of Brazil. Systematic Botany 38(2): 464-470. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1600/036364413X666679
Fleischmann AS (2012): A Monograph of the Genus Genlisea. Redfern Natural History Productions Ltd. 728 pages, 614 images
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2013
Dr. Adrian Alder
Alder A, Jamil M, Marzorati M, Bruno M, Vermathen M, Bigler P, Ghisla S, Bouwmeester H, Beyer P, Al-Babili S (2012): The path from β-carotene to carlactone, a strigolactone-like plant hormone. Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.1218094 als Teil der Dissertation.
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2011
Dr. Hans-Henning Kunz
Biochemische Charakterisierung der Fettsäure-Beta-Oxidation als Teil des Dunkelstoffwechsels von Arabidopsis thaliana. Dissertation, Universität Köln: kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/3087/. Englische Originalpublikation bei The Plant Cell.
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2009
Dr. Marion Eisenhut
Eisenhut M, Ruth W, Haimovich M, Bauwe H, Kaplan A, Hagemann M (2008): The photorespiratory glycolate metabolism is essential for cyanobacteria and might have been conveyed endosymbiontically to plants. PNAS. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0807043105
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2007
Dr. Ansgar Kahmen
Kahmen A, Perner J, Buchmann N (2005): Diversity dependent productivity in semi-natural grasslands following climate perturbations.
Functional Ecology, 19: 594-601
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2004
PD Dr. Enrico Schleiff
Für seine Arbeiten über die Funktion, Struktur und Regulation der molekularen Maschine zur Erkennung und zum Transport kernkodierter Proteine über die äussere Hüllmembran von Plastiden höherer Pflanzen
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2002
Dr. Marc Götz
"Funktion und Regulation extrazellulärer Invertase in Höheren Pflanzen." Dissertation, Universität
2000
Dr. Sigrun Reumann
"Nachweis, Charakterisierung und Anreicherung eines Porins pflanzlicher Peroxisomen". Dissertation, Universität
1998
Dr. Jutta Papenbrock
"Magnesium Protoporphyrin IX-Chelatase: Ein Schlüsselenzym in der Tetrapyrrolbiosynthese". Dissertation, Universität
1996
Dr. Johannes Christian Vogel
"Multiple Origins of polyploids in European Asplenium (Pteridophyta)". Dissertation, Universität
1994
Dr. Karl-Ferdinand Lechtreck
"Untersuchungen über das Protein SF-Assemblin aus dem Bewegungsapparat der einzelligen Grünalge Spermatozopsis similis". Dissertation, Universität