Ute Krämer

 

Research Interests

In my research group Evolutionary Functional Genomics & Metal Homeostasis Networks we pursue an interdisciplinary approach to develop a comprehensive understanding of the function of biological networks and their evolution. Our model organisms are the genetic model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and related species in the Brassicaceae family, as well as barley and close relatives as cereal models. Our work combines plant physiology, molecular biology, genomics, genetics, bioinformatics and modeling approaches.

Scientific background

• 1989-1992 Student of Biochemistry at the University of Hanover, Germany

• 1992-1996 Doctoral thesis on nickel hyperaccumulation in the genus Alyssum/ Brassicaceae
  at the University of Oxford, UK (Magdalen College), with
  J. Andrew C. Smith, University of Oxford, UK, and Alan J. M. Baker, University of Melbourne, Australia

• 1996 Field Trip to Turkey for sampling of plant diversity on ultramafic and metal-contaminated soils, with Prof. Roger D. Reeves, Massey University, New Zealand

• 1996/1997 Postdoctoral NATO fellow at the AgBiotech Center, Rutgers University, NJ, USA, with Prof. Ilya Raskin and Prof. David E. Salt;
  work on nickel hyperaccumulation in Thlaspi goesingense/ Brassicaceae

• 1998-2000 Assistant Professor to the Chair of Plant Metabolic Physiology and Biochemistry, Professor Karl-Josef Dietz, University of Bielefeld, Germany

• 1999 Visiting Fellow with Prof. Julian I. Schroeder, University of California San Diego;

  work on engineering metal tolerance/accumulation in plants
• 2000-2006 Leader of an Independently Funded Research Group (Biofuture)

  Plant Metal Homeostasis
  at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany

• 2006 to date Group Leader of the Research Group
  Evolutionary Functional Genomics & Metal Homeostasis Networks
  at the HIP and the BIOQUANT

 

Awards

• 1989-1995 German National Scholarship Foundation

• 1991 Elected Rhodes Scholar; Cecil Rhodes Scholarship from 1992-1995

• 1996 Award from the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund, Linnean Society of London, for fieldwork in Turkey

• 1996 NATO postdoctoral fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service

• 1999 Biofuture Prize of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research

• 2006 Heisenberg Fellowship from the German Research Foundation

Contact

Dr. habil. Ute Kraemer, D.Phil.

BIOQUANT BQ 23, R. 645

University of Heidelberg

Im Neuenheimer Feld 267

D-69120 Heidelberg

Germany

Phone +49 (6221) 54 51370

Fax +49 (6221) 54 51487

Email: ute.kraemer(at)bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de