Wilhelm Pfeffer Prize: Awarded Scientists
The Wilhem Pfeffer Foundation of the DBG awards the Wilhem Pfeffer Prize every other year. The following scientists were endowed:
2024
Dr. Henryk Straube
Straube, Henryk (2023): Investigation of the metabolism of rare nucleotides in plants. Dissertation. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, 241 S., Referent: Prof. Dr. Claus-Peter Witte. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15488/13270
read more in the press release and the laudatory speech (pdf)
2022
Dr. Rabea Meyberg
Rabea Meyberg (2020): Conserved key players required for Physcomitrella patens male fertility are affected by accumulation of (epi-) mutations. Dissertation https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/diss/z2020/0063/
read more in the German press release and in the Laudation (pdf)
2019
Dr. Jessica Lee Erickson
Erickson JL (2019): Shaping plastid stromules. Dissertation, Faculty of Biology, Department of Plant Physiology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/13909
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Dr. Moisés Expósito Alonso
Expósito-Alonso M (2018): On climate change and genetic evolution in Arabidopsis thaliana. Dissertation. Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology and Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-26332
read more in our press release
2017
Dr. Inês Barbosa
Barbosa IC (2015): Trafficking and polarity control of the D6 PROTEIN KINASE from Arabidopsis thaliana. Doktorarbeit an der Technischen Universität München (TUM). Wesentliche Teile sind publiziert in:
Barbosa IC, Shikata H, Zourelidou M, Heilmann M, Heilmann I, Schwechheimer ( (2016): Phospholipid composition and a polybasic motif determine D6 PROTEIN KINASE polar association with the plasma membrane and tropic responses. Development 143(24):4687-4700. DOI: 10.1242/dev.137117
Barbosa IC, Zourelidou M, Willige BC, Weller B, Schwechheimer C (2014): "D6 PROTEIN KINASE activates auxin transport-dependent growth and PIN-FORMED phosphorylation at the plasma membrane. Developmental Cell 29(6):674-685. DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2014.05.006
read German press release
2015
Dr. Manuel Steinbauer
The Effect of Spatial and Environmental Drivers on Patterns in Species Richness and Composition
see German Press release
2013
Dr. Dominik Großkinsky
Characterisation of Cytokinin mediated Resistance and Biocontrol Effects against Pseudomonas syringae in Arabidopsis and Tobacco. Dissertation an der Uni Graz
see German Press release and Laudatio (pdf-Datei)
2011
Dr. Marco Todesco
Overt and Cryptic Natural Genetic Variation in Arabidopsis thaliana. Dissertation, MPI Tübingen. Some of the results are published in Nature.
see German Press release and Laudatio (pdf)
2009
Dr. Eva Nowack
Nowacks Doktorarbeit ist 2009 im Cuvillier Verlag Göttingen unter dem Titel „Paulinella chromatophora - a Model for the Acquisition of Photosynthesis by Eukaryotes“ erschienen (ISBN 978-3-86727-946-8).
see German Pressemitteilung and Laudatio (pdf file, 0,1 MB)
2006
Dr. Bationa Shahollari
Molecular analyses of the interaction between Arabidopsis thaliana and the endophytic fungus Piriformospora indica. Dissertation, Universität
see Laudatio (pdf)
2004
Dr. Sophie Karrenberg van der Nat
Tree regeneration on the flood plain of an Alpine river. Dissertation, Universität
see Laudatio (pdf, 0,2 MB)
2002
Dr. Micheal Knoblauch
Entwicklung neuer Methoden zur Untersuchung der Struktur und Funktion des Transportphloems in vivo. Dissertation, Universität
see Laudatio (pdf, 0,2 MB)
2000
Dr. Christine Oesterhelt
A sweet live at pH 1 - Characterization of a sugar/polyol-uptake system in the unicellular acidophilic red alga Galdieria sulphurarua
Dissertation, Universität
1998
Dr. Christina Kühn
Charakterisierung und Lokalisierung des Saccharosetransporters SUT1 in Solanaceen. Dissertation, Universität
1996
Dr. Arthur Schüßler
Strukturelle und funktionelle Charakterisierung der Pilz/Blaualgen Endosymbiose Geosiphon pyriforme: Physiologie, Zellbiologie und Taxonomie. Dissertation, Universität
1993
Dr. Karin Hauser
Saccharomyces cerevisiae alpha-Agglutinin: Reinigung, Charakterisierung, Klonierung des Gens und Nachweis einer aktiven Domäne. Dissertation, Universität
1992
Dr. Rebecca Klink
Elektronenmikroskopische Darstellung der Tonoplasten-ATPase bei der C3-CAM-intermediären Pflanze Mesembryanthemum crystallinum. Dissertation, Universität