Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kleine-Vehn
Focus of research
- Unraveling plant growth at a subcellular level
CV
- 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
Selected publications
- 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