PD Dr. Eva Decker

Focus of research

• Molecular biology of mosses
• Biopharmaceutical production
• Biotechnology with peat mosses

CV

• Since 2009 Senior Academic Councillor, Faculty of Biology, University of Fribourg
• Since 2006 Teaching in the Trinational Biotechnology Program, Ecole Supérieur de Biotechnologie Strasbourg (ESBS)
• 2004 Habilitation in plant biotechnology
• 1999–2009 Research associate, assistant and academic councilor, Faculty of Biology, University of Fribourg
• 1995–1999 Doctorate in Molecular Biology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg
• 1990–1994 Study of Biology, Universities of Bielefeld and Hamburg

Selected publications

• Lüth, V.M., C. Rempfer, N. van Gessel, O. Herzog, M. Hanser, M. Braun, E. L. Decker, R. Reski (2023): A Physcomitrella PIN protein acts in spermatogenesis and sporophyte retention. New Phytologist 237, 2118-2135. DOI: 10.1111/nph.18691
• Ruiz-Molina, N., J. Parsons, M. Müller, S.N.W. Hoernstein, L.L. Bohlender, S. Pumple, P.F. Zipfel, K. Häffner, R. Reski, E. L. Decker (2022): A synthetic protein as efficient multitarget regulator against complement over-activation. Communications Biology 5, 152. DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03094-5
• Heck M.A., V.M. Lüth, N. van Gessel, M. Krebs, M. Kohl, A. Prager, H. Joosten, E. L. Decker, R. Reski (2021): Axenic in vitro cultivation of 19 peat moss (Sphagnum L.) species as a resource for basic biology, biotechnology and paludiculture. New Phytologist 229, 861-876. DOI: 10.1111/nph.16922
• Bohlender, L.L., J. Parsons, S.N.W. Hoernstein, C. Rempfer, N. Ruiz-Molina, T. Lorenz, F. Rodriguez-Jahnke, R. Figl, B. Fode, F. Altmann, R. Reski, E. L. Decker (2020): Stable protein sialylation in Physcomitrella. Frontiers in Plant Science 11, 610032. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.610032.
• Wiedemann, G., N. van Gessel, F. Köchl, L. Hunn, K. Schulze, L. Maloukh, F. Nogué, E. L. Decker, F. Hartung, R. Reski (2018): RecQ helicases function in development, DNA-repair and gene targeting in Physcomitrella patens. Plant Cell 30, 717-736. DOI: 10.1105/tpc.17.006372. Michelfelder, S., J. Parsons, L.L. Bohlender, S.N.W. Hoernstein, H. Niederkrüger, A. Busch, N. Krieghoff, J. Koch, B. Fode, A. Sch aaf, T. Frischmuth, M. Pohl, P.F. Zipfel, R. Reski, E. L. Decker, K. Häffner (2017): Moss-produced, glycosylation-optimized human factor H for therapeutic application in complement disorders. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 28, 1462–1474. DOI: 10.1681/ASN.2015070745.