Lotte Sogaard-Andersen
Prof. Lotte Søgaard-Andersen, M.D., Ph.D
MPI für terrestrische Mikrobiologie
Karl-von-Frisch-Straße
D-35043 Marburg / Germany
Phone: +49 6421 178201
Fax: +49 6421 178209
Email:
sogaard@mpi-marburg.mpg.de
Research group members
Group leader: Prof. M.D., PhD Lotte Søgaard-Andersen
Lab-Manager: Susanne Kneip
Scientific staff members: Dr. Stuart Huntley, Dr. Anke Treuner-Lange
Guest: Prof. Dr. Peter Lenz (Faculty of Physics, Philipps University)
Postdoctoral Fellows: David Castillo PhD, Dr. Kryssia Aguiluz, Dr. Simone Leonardy, Dr. Xingqi Shi
Graduate students: Meike Ammon, Iryna Bulyha, Edina Hot, Daniela Keilberg, Anna Konovalova, Tobias Petters, Niyati Vachharajani
Undergraduate students: Eva Sperling, Tim Schöner, Stephanie Löbach, Carmen Schmitt
Technical assistants: Andrea Harms, Jörg Kahnt, Susanne Kneip, Steffi Lindow, Elizabeth Ried
IT: Dr. Manfred Irmler
Prof. M.D., PhD Lotte Sogaard-Andersen
Curriculum Vitae
Lotte Søgaard-Andersen (born 1959)
M. Sc. thesis (Molecular biology), University of Odense, 1984
M.D., University of Odense, 1988
Visiting scientist, Institut Pasteur, Paris, 1990
PhD (Molecular biology), University of Odense, 1991
Post-doc, University of Odense, 1991
Assistant professor, University of Odense, 1992
Visiting scientist, Stanford University, 1994
Associate professor, University of Southern Denmark, 1996
Professor, University of Southern Denmark, 2002
Director and Head of the Department of Ecophysiology at the MPI in Marburg, since 2004
Professor for Microbiology at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, since 2008
Group leaders at the department
Dr. Penelope Higgs
Dr. Kai Thormann
Dr. Chris van der Does
Research area: Bacterial development and differentiation
We use the soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus as a model system to study mechanisms governing bacterial development and biofilm formation. In most natural ecosystems bacteria exist in biofilms. Biofilms are highly complex, surface attached, multicellular communities consisting of physiologically heterogeneous subpopulations of cells. To understand the function, biology and physiology of soil bacteria in their natural environments, the detailed understanding of biofilm formation in these bacteria is essential. In this regard, biofilm formation in M. xanthus has emerged as the preeminent model system.
More about "Bacterial development and differentiation"
Recent publications
Wegener-Feldbrügge, S. & Søgaard-Andersen, L. (2009) The atypical hybrid histidine protein kinase RodK in Myxococcus xanthus: Spatial proximity supersedes kinetic preference in phosphotransfer reactions. J. Bacteriol. 191, 1765-1776.
Leonardy, S., Bulyha, I. & Søgaard-Andersen, L. (2008) Reversing cells and oscillating proteins. Mol. BioSystems 4, 1009 – 1014.
Rolbetzki, A., Ammon, M., Jakovljevic, V., Konovalova, A. & Søgaard-Andersen, L. (2008) Regulated secretion of a protease activates intercellular signaling during fruiting body formation in M. xanthus. Dev. Cell. 15, 627-634.