Pecinka lab:Bjoern Pietzenuk

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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I work in the Group for Genetic and Epigenetic maintenance at Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research under the supervision of Ales Pecinka. My research is focused on the genetic and epigenetic maintenance of transposable elements in Arabidopsis species under natural and stress conditions. I am very interested in genome and epigenome evolution in plant species.

Contact Info

Björn Pietzenuk (2011)

• B. Pietzenuk
• Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics
• Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research
• 50829 Cologne; Germany
• +49 221 5062 467
• Contact

Education

• currently, PhD, Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research Advisor: Ales Pecinka
• 2011, Diploma in Biology, Institute of Botany Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf; Advisor: Prof. Dr. Margarete Baier

Research topics and interests

I am very interested in early molecular evolution and the evolution of photoautotroph organisms. Further, I am interested in response in Plants to biotic and abiotic stress and how it can affect on genome stability and maintenance.

• Diplomathesis: "Natural variation and its constraints: Comparison of chloroplast ascorbate peroxidases in higher plants"

Publications

• Jusczack I, Rudnik R, Pietzenuk B, Baier M Natural genetic variation in the expression regulation of the chloroplast antioxidant system among Arabidopsis thaliana accessions. Physiologica Plantarum doi: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2012.01602.x (2012). [1]