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Gerd Jürgens (also spelt Juergens) (born 1949) is a plant developmental biologist and emeritus Director of the Cell Biology Department at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
[1]
[2] and Head of the Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP) at the
Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen . He has published extensively in leading journals, including eight papers in the journal
Nature as well as various articles in the journals
Cell ,
Science ,
Journal of Cell Biology and
The Plant Journal .
[3]
Research
During his postdoctoral years in the 1980s he worked with
Nobel prize winners
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and
Eric Wieschaus at the
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg on the topic of
Drosophila melanogaster embryogenesis.
[4]
At the age of 37 he made the switch from animal to plant research and became one of the first researchers to work on what was later to become the
model plant organism :
Arabidopsis thaliana .
He was responsible for pioneering research in the genetic dissection of
plant embryogenesis . Using the genetically-tractable plant
Arabidopsis thaliana he conducted the first
forward genetic screen (using mutagenesis with 0.3%
ethyl methane sulfonate (EMS)) looking for embryonic defects.
[5]
His laboratory discovered and characterized the protein KNOLLE, which is required for
cytokinesis and was the first protein known to exclusively target the
cell plate in plant cells.
[6]
[7]
Jürgens also worked extensively on the
ARF -
GEF GNOM.
[8]
[9] Both knolle and gnom were first discovered in his embryonic mutant
screens .
[5]
Prizes and awards
Jürgens won the
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (the highest research award in Germany) in 1995.
References
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"Jürgens, Gerd" . Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (in German). 21 October 2021. Retrieved 16 December 2021 .
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"Cell Biology" . www.eb.tuebingen.mpg.de . Retrieved 16 December 2021 .
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"Zentrum für Molekularbiologie der Pflanzen - Pub" . Archived from
the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 26 December 2010 .
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"The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995" . NobelPrize.org . 20 October 1942. Retrieved 16 December 2021 .
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a
b Mayer, Ulrike; Ruiz, Ramón A. Torres; Berleth, Thomas; Miséra, Simon; Jürgens, Gerd (1991). "Mutations affecting body organization in the Arabidopsis embryo". Nature . 353 (6343). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 402–407.
Bibcode :
1991Natur.353..402M .
doi :
10.1038/353402a0 .
ISSN
0028-0836 .
S2CID
4282406 .
^ Lukowitz, Wolfgang; Mayer, Ulrike; Jürgens, Gerd (1996).
"Cytokinesis in the Arabidopsis Embryo Involves the Syntaxin-Related KNOLLE Gene Product" . Cell . 84 (1). Elsevier BV: 61–71.
doi :
10.1016/s0092-8674(00)80993-9 .
ISSN
0092-8674 .
PMID
8548827 .
S2CID
6493229 .
^ Lauber, Martina H.; Waizenegger, Irene; Steinmann, Thomas; Schwarz, Heinz; Mayer, Ulrike; Hwang, Inwhan; Lukowitz, Wolfgang; Jürgens, Gerd (15 December 1997).
"The Arabidopsis KNOLLE Protein Is a Cytokinesis-specific Syntaxin" . Journal of Cell Biology . 139 (6). Rockefeller University Press: 1485–1493.
doi :
10.1083/jcb.139.6.1485 .
ISSN
0021-9525 .
PMC
2132613 .
PMID
9396754 .
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Geldner, Niko ; Anders, Nadine; Wolters, Hanno; Keicher, Jutta; Kornberger, Wolfgang; Muller, Philippe; Delbarre, Alain; Ueda, Takashi; Nakano, Akihiko; Jürgens, Gerd (2003).
"The Arabidopsis GNOM ARF-GEF Mediates Endosomal Recycling, Auxin Transport, and Auxin-Dependent Plant Growth" . Cell . 112 (2). Elsevier BV: 219–230.
doi :
10.1016/s0092-8674(03)00003-5 .
ISSN
0092-8674 .
PMID
12553910 .
S2CID
9199922 .
^ Anders, Nadine; Nielsen, Michael; Keicher, Jutta; Stierhof, York-Dieter; Furutani, Masahiko; Tasaka, Masao; Skriver, Karen; Jürgens, Gerd (1 January 2008).
"Membrane Association of theArabidopsisARF Exchange Factor GNOM Involves Interaction of Conserved Domains" . The Plant Cell . 20 (1). Oxford University Press (OUP): 142–151.
doi :
10.1105/tpc.107.056515 .
ISSN
1532-298X .
PMC
2254928 .
PMID
18203920 .
S2CID
11144074 .
Further reading
CV
"Juergens" . Universität Tübingen (in German). 30 November 2021. Retrieved 16 December 2021 .
External links
ZMBP | Universität Tübingen — Website of the Zentrum für Molekularbiologie der Pflanzen (Center for Plant Molecular Biology) where Jürgens works
International National Academics