Daniel Schubert
Epigenetics of Plants Group
Free University of Berlin
Germany
Biography
CURRENT POSITION: Head of a research group, funded by the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (since 2006) EDUCATION AND BACKGROUND: Daniel Schubert holds a diploma degree in Biology from the University of Cologne. He finished his PhD under the supervision of Dr Renate Schmidt at the Max Planck Institutes for Breeding Research and for Molecular Plant Physiology in Cologne and Potsdam, respectively, in 2002. Thereafter, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the epigenetics group of Dr Justin Goodrich at the University of Edinburgh (UK) (funded by fellowships from the DAAD and DFG). Since June 2006 he is head of the plant developmental epigenetics group at the Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, funded as a CRC junior group leader by the DFG and as research fellow by the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation.
Research Interest
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Daniel Schubert´s research is concerned with understanding memory processes in plant development and stress responses, with a focus on Polycomb-group proteins and the maintenance of flowering.
