Professor Michael Feldbrügge
University of Dusseldorf, Germany
Talk Title
Linking fungal RNA biology with development and metabolism
Biography
Michael Feldbrügge is heading the Institute of Microbiology at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. He is the member of the Excellence Cluster on Plant Sciences, CEPLAS, and speaker of the Collaborative Research Center “Microbiol networking – form organelles to cross-kingdom communities”. Michael studied biology at the University of Cologne and obtained his Ph. D. at the Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding in Cologne. He performed postdoctoral research at the Plant Research Laboratory at the Michigan State University and the Institute for Genetics at the LMU Munich. He became group leader at the Max-Planck Institute for terrestrial Microbiology and since 2009 he is full professor at the HHU in Düsseldorf. Michael is known for his work on RNA biology in fungal pathogens and he discovered novel cell biological processes such as endosomal mRNA transport, a process conserved from fungi, to plants and neuronal cells. He serves as reviewer for several funding agencies and is currently elected co-speaker of the DFG reviewer panel “microbiology, immunology and virology”.