Regine Kahmann
Prof. Dr. Regine Kahmann
MPI für terrestrische Mikrobiologie
Karl-von-Frisch-Straße 10
D-35043 Marburg / Germany
Phone: +49 6421 178501
Fax: +49 6421 178509
Email:
kahmann@mpi-marburg.mpg.de
Research group members
Group leader: Prof. Dr. Regine Kahmann
Secretary: Vera Matschiske-Peters, Claudia Schäfer
Scientific staff members: Dr. Julien Yann Dutheil
Postdoctoral fellows: Dr. Armin Djamei, Dr. Anupama Ghosh, Dr. Daniel Lanver, Dr. Stefanie Reißmann, Dr. Shigeyuki Tanaka, Dr. Marie Tollot, Dr. Lei Wang, Dr. Jinsong Wu
PhD/Master/Bachelor students: Liang Liang, Soode Moghadas Jafari, Sina Krombach, Vikram Naik, Nina Neidig, Franziska Rabe, Gabriel Schweizer, Nancy Stolle
Technical assistants: Karin Münch, Nicole Rössel, Volker Vincon
Network administrator: Rolf Rösser
Gardener: Stefan Schmidt
Media kitchen: Anita Boos, Ria Faber
Prof. Dr. Regine Kahmann
Curriculum Vitae
Regine Kahmann (born 1948)
Studies in Microbiology, University of Göttingen, 1967
Diplom (Biology), University of Göttingen, 1972
Dr.rer.nat (Biology), Free University of Berlin, 1974
Postdoc and Junior Staff Member, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1980
Research Associate, Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, 1982
Leader of an independent Research Group, Otto-Warburg Laboratory at the Max-Planck-Institute for molecular Genetics in Berlin, 1986
Leader of an independent Research Group at the Institute for Genebiological Research in Berlin (1992)
Professor for Genetics, Institute for Genetics and Microbiology at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-University in Munich (since 1992)
Director and Head of the Department of Organismic Interactions at the MPI in Marburg, since 2000
Professor of Genetics, Philipps University Marburg (since 2001)
Group leaders at the Department
Dr. Gunther Döhlemann
Dr. Eva Stukenbrock
Dr. Alga Zuccaro
Research Area: Molecular Phytopathology
The fungus Ustilago maydis causes smut disease in maize. A hallmark of this disease is the formation of large tumors which develop on all aerial parts of the plant, leading to stunted growth and significant reductions in crop yield. U. maydis is a biotrophic pathogen that depends on living plant cells to complete its life cycle.
More about "Molecular Phytopathology"
Recent publications
Wang, L., Berndt, P., Xia, X., Kahnt, J., Kahmann, R. (2011) A seven-WD40 protein related to human RACK1 regulates mating and virulence in Ustilago Maydis. Mol. Microbiol. (Article first published online: 4 Aug. 2011)
Horst, R.J., Doehlemann, G., Wahl, R., Hofmann, J., Schmiedl, A., Kahmann, R., Kämper, J., Voll, L.M. (2010) A model of Ustilago maydis leaf tumor metabolism. Plant Signal. Behav.5: 1446-1449
Doehlemann, G., Reissmann, S., Aßmann, D., Fleckenstein, M., Kahmann, R. (2011) Two linked genes encoding a secreted effector and a membrane protein are essential for Ustilago maydis-induced tumour formation. Mol. Microbiol. 81(3):751-766
Winterberg, B., Uhlmann, S., Linne, U., Lessing, F., Marahiel, M.A., Eichhorn, H., Kahmann, R. and Schirawski, J. (2010). Elucidation of the complete Ferrichrome A biosynthetic pathway in Ustilago maydis. Mol. Microbiol. 75, 1260-1271.
Horst, R.J., Doehlemann, G., Wahl, R., Hofmann, J., Schmiedl, A., Kahmann, R., Kämper, J., Sonnewald, U. and Voll, L.M. (2010). Ustilago maydis infection strongly alters organic nitrogen allocation in maize and stimulates productivity of systemic source leaves. Plant Physiol. 152 (1), 293-308. (Epub 18 Nov. 2009)
Khrunyk Y, Münch K, Schipper K, Lupas AN, Kahmann R. (2010)
The use of FLP-mediated recombination for the functional analysis of an effector gene family in the biotrophic smut fungus Ustilago maydis. New Phytol. 2010 Sep;187(4):957-68.
Lanver D, Mendoza-Mendoza A, Brachmann A, Kahmann R.
Sho1 and Msb2-related proteins regulate appressorium development in the smut fungus Ustilago maydis. Plant Cell. 2010 Jun;22(6):2085-101.