Bioeconomy Science Center
Research and cooperation for a sustainable bioeconomy
Bioeconomy Science Center
Research and cooperation for a sustainable bioeconomy

New BioSC Core Group: Prof. Petra Bauer, HHU Düsseldorf

The BioSC welcomes a new Core Group. Prof. Petra Bauer is head of the Institute of Botany at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Her research focusses on the micronutrient iron which plays a major role for many reactions and transport mechanism within the plant.

Petra Bauer investigates the uptake, storage and distribution of iron within the plant with a special emphasis on iron homeostasis responses. Therefore, her group is using plant model systems to identify new gene functions for the uptake and distribution of iron. Th long-term aim is to ensure the efficient usage of minerals in the rhizosphere as well as to increase the mineral content to enhance the quality of vegetable food.

In 1996, Petra Bauer received her PhD at the University of Cologne in the frame of a cooperation with the French institute „Institut des Sciences Végétales, CNRS“. Afterwards, she moved for three years to Berkeley, US, where she worked as a postdoc in the “Department of Plant and Microbial Biology“. Back in Germany in 2002 she started  her own research group on “Plant stress and development”, funded by an Emmy-Noether scholarship. In 2004 she started at University Saarbrücken as a junior professor and in 2009 she was appointed as a W2 professor for plant biology at the same university. Since 2013 she is working as full professor (W3) at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.

Prof. Dr. Petra Bauer

Institut für Botanik
Heinrich Heine Universität
Universitätsstr. 1
Gebäude: 26.13
Etage/Raum: 02.36
D-40225 Düsseldorf

Tel.: +49 211 81-13479


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