Stephan Wenkel
Curriculum vitae
DR. STEPHAN WENKEL Independent Research Group Leader University of Tübingen Center for Plant Molecular Biology Department of General Genetics Auf der Morgenstelle 28 72076 Tübingen Germany [email protected]‐tuebingen.de EDUCATION Undergraduate studies in biology at the University of Mainz and at the University of Würzburg. 2003 Diploma in Biology (Plant Biophysics), University of Würzburg, Adviser Professor Rainer Hedrich 2006 PhD in Genetics, Max‐Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research / University of Cologne; Adviser Professor George Coupland RESEARCH EXPERIENCE University of Tübingen, Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP) Since 06/2009 Independent Research Group Leader Carnegie Institution of Science, Stanford University, USA 06/2006‐ 06/2009 Postdoctoral Fellow (Adviser Kathy Barton) Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany 01/2006 – 05/2006 Postdoctoral Fellow Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany 03/2003 – 12/2005 Research Assistant / PhD Student University of Würzburg, Department of Plant Biophysics, Germany 05/2002 – 02/2003 Research Assistant / Diploma Student University of Würzburg, Department of Biological Psychology, Germany 09/2001 – 04/2002 Undergraduate Research Assistant California Institute of Technology, USA 06/2001 – 08/2001 Summer Undergraduate Research Student Research Centre Jülich, Department of Biotechnology, Germany 06/1999 – 07/1999 Summer Undergraduate Research Assistant 1
Stephan Wenkel
Curriculum vitae
PUBLICATIONS Staudt AC, Wenkel S Regulation of protein function by 'microProteins'. EMBO Rep. 2011 Jan; 12(1):35‐42. Jang S, Marchal V,Panigrahi K, Valverde V, Wenkel S and Coupland G Arabidopsis COP1 shapes the temporal pattern of CO accumulation conferring a photoperiodic flowering response EMBO Journal 2008 Apr 23; 27(8):1277‐88 Wenkel S, Emery J, Hu BH, Evans MMS and Barton MK A Feedback Regulatory Module Formed by LITTLE ZIPPER and HDZIPIII Genes The Plant Cell 2007 Nov; 19(11):3379‐90 Wenkel S, Turck F, Le Gourrierec J, Samach A, Coupland G CONSTANS and the CCAAT box binding complex share a functionally important domain and interact to regulate flowering of Arabidopsis The Plant Cell 2006 Nov; 18(11):2971‐84. Laubinger S, Marchal V, Gentilhomme J, Wenkel S, Adrian J, Jang S, Kulajta C, Braun H, Coupland G, Hoecker U Arabidopsis SPA proteins regulate photoperiodic flowering and interact with the floral inducer CONSTANS to regulate its stability. Development 2006 Aug; 133(16):3213‐22. Becker D, Hoth S, Ache P, Wenkel S, Roelfsema MR, Meyerhoff O, Hartung W, Hedrich R. Regulation of the ABA‐sensitive Arabidopsis potassium channel gene GORK in response to water stress. FEBS Letters 2003 Nov 6; 554(1‐2):119‐26 2