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
Recent Publications
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Caselli, F., Palermiti, M., Petrella, R., Morlacchi, V. A., Dünser, K. A., Kleine-Vehn, J., De Chiara, M., & Gregis, V. (2026). A novel role of BPCs in the control of medial domain differentiation during gynoecium development in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Molecular Biology, 116(1), 4. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11103-025-01662-x
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Noura, S., Ferreira Da Silva Santos, J., Feraru, E., Hoernstein, S. N. W., Feraru, M. I., Montero-Morales, L., Rößling, A.-K., Scheuring, D., Strasser, R., Huesgen, P. F., Waidmann, S., & Kleine-Vehn, J. (2025). ERAD machinery controls the conditional turnover of PIN-LIKES in plants. Science Advances, 11(38), eadx5027. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adx5027
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Elrefaay, E. R., Melzer, M., Hrtyan, M., Pencik, A., Novák, O., Kleine-Vehn, J., & Tognetti, V. B. (2025). Crosstalk between auxin signalling and Growth Regulating Factor 5 : implications for chloroplast division and leaf development. Physiologia Plantarum, 177(3), e70315. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppl.70315
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Rößling, A.-K., Kleine-Vehn, J., & Dünser, K. A. (2024). Membrane delivery to the vacuole and the multifunctional roles of vacuoles. In Endosymbiotic organelle acquisition : solutions to the problem of protein localization and membrane passage (pp. 261–286). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57446-7_9
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Ren, C., Bodendorf, J., Moreno-Risueno, M. A., & Kleine-Vehn, J. (2024). Two distinct oscillatory auxin signals define the plasticity of lateral rooting inArabidopsis thaliana. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.16.608248