Pecinka lab:Andreas Finke

Centre of Plant Structural and Functional Genomics Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, v. v. i. Šlechtitelů 31 Olomouc, CZ-783 71 Czech Republic Contact

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Contact Info

• Andreas Finke
• Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics
• Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research
• 50829 Cologne; Germany
• +49 221 5062 467
• Email: finke[at]mpipz.mpg.de

Education

• 2009-2012, PhD student in the Leibniz-Institute for Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, [1], Thesis: "Genetic and functional characterization if RNA directed transcriptional gene silencing in Arabidopsis thaliana.", Supervisor: Dr. Michael Florian Mette
• 2008, Graduation, Leibniz-Institute of Plantbiochemistry, Halle, Thesis: "Identification and characterization of target genes of the epigenetic regulator TFL2 in Arabidopsis thaliana." Supervisor: Dr. Peter Lange and Prof. Dr. Claus Wasternack
• 2003-2008, Studies of Biochemistry, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg [2];

Research topics and interests

• additional information will be added soon

Publications

• Baubec T, Finke A, Mittelsten Scheid O, Pecinka A

"Meristem‐specific expression of epigenetic regulators safeguards transposon silencing in Arabidopsis" EMBO Reports (2014) [3]

• Finke A, Kuhlmann M, Mette MF

"IDN2 has a role downstream of siRNA formation in RNA-directed DNA methylation." Epigenetics 7 (2012) 950-960. [4]

• Finke A, Mette FM, Kuhlmann M

"Genetic analysis of RNA-mediated gene silencing in Arabidopsis thaliana." J. Verbr. Lebensm. 7 (2012) 27-33. [5]