Location: Meeting Room 205 of Administration Building 

Introduction of Lecturer: 

　　Education:  

　　1978-1983           Study of Marine Biology at University Rostock  

　　1983-1986           PhD stipendium at the Department of Biochemistry, University Rostock   

　　Selected Career History:  

　　1986-1990           Scientfiic assistant at the Department Plant Physiology, University Rostock  

　　1988-1989           8month Post-doc stay at Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.  

　　Since 1991          Group Leader, permanent scientific coworker at University Rostock  

　　1992                    3month Post-doc stay at Brown University, Providence, USA  

　　2000                    3month research stay at the National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan  

　　2002                    Guest professorship at the Biocenter of Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan  

　　Since 2006          Apl. Professor of Molecular Biology, University of Rostock  

　　Areas of Expertise: 

       Physiology, biochemistry and genetics of cyanobacteria  

　　Stress acclimation with particular interest in salt stress  

　　Photorespiration in cyanobacteria, algae and plants  

　　Inorganic carbon assimilation in cyanobacteria, pathways and regulation  

　　Evolution of photorespiration and carbon assimilation from cyanobacteria toward plants  

　　Transfer of cyanobacterial photorespiratory pathway into plants