Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kleine-Vehn

Group: Molecular Plant Physiologie
https://plantscience.de/

Phone: +49 (0)761 203-2951

Since 2024 Speaker of DFG CIBSS Excellence cluster 2189
Since 2024 Elected member of the Senate of the University of Freiburg
Since 2024 Elected member of the faculty council Biology of the University of Freiburg
Since 2024 Board member of the research profile “Signals of life” of the University of Freiburg
Since 2022 Principle Investigator of the Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine
Since 2022 Alumni representative of the faculty of Biology at the University of Freiburg
Since 2021 Member of the Excellence Cluster CIBSS (Centre for Integrative Biological Signaling Studies), University of Freiburg
Since 2020 Full Professor (W3) for Molecular Plant Physiology (MoPP), Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg
2016-2020 Associate Professor, Department for Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
2017-2019 Deputy Head of Department, Department for Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
2011-2016 WWTF Vienna Research Group Leader, Department for Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
2008-2010 Postdoctoral Project Leader, Flamish Institut for Biotechnology (VIB), Gent University, Belgium
2006-2008 PhD in Biotechnologie, Flamish Institut for Biotechnology (VIB), Gent University, Belgium
1999-2005 Study of Biology, University of Tübingen, Germany

Rößling AK, Dünser K, Liu C, Lauw S, Rodriguez-Franco M, Kalmbach L, Barbez E, Kleine-Vehn J. (2024) Pectin methylesterase activity is required for RALF1 peptide signalling output. Elife. 13:RP96943.
Waidmann S, Béziat C, Ferreira Da Silva Santos J, Feraru E, Feraru MI, Sun L, Noura S, Boutté Y, Kleine-Vehn J. (2023) Endoplasmic reticulum stress controls PIN-LIKES abundance and thereby growth adaptation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 120(31):e2218865120.
Waidmann S, Ruiz Rosquete M, Schöller M, Sarkel E, Lindner H, LaRue T, Petřík I, Dünser K, Martopawiro S, Sasidharan R, Novak O, Wabnik K, Dinneny JR, Kleine-Vehn J. (2019) Cytokinin functions as an asymmetric and anti-gravitropic signal in lateral roots. Nat Commun. 10(1):3540.
Béziat C, Barbez E, Feraru MI, Lucyshyn D, Kleine-Vehn J. (2017) Light triggers PILS-dependent reduction in nuclear auxin signalling for growth transition. Nature Plants. 3:17105.
Barbez E, Kubes M, Rolcik J, Beziat C, Pěnčík A, Wang B, Ruiz Rosquete M, Zhu J, Lee Y, Zazimalova E, Petrasek J, Geisler M, Friml J, Kleine-Vehn J. (2012) A novel putative auxin carrier family regulates intracellular auxin homeostasis in plants. Nature. 485(7396):119-22