Research
Current staff
| Name | Field of research | |
|---|---|---|
| Prof. Dr. Reinhard Agerer | MYK | Mycology |
| PD Dr. Ehrentraud Bayer * | BOT | History of economic plants |
| Dr. Andreas Beck * | BOT | Systematics of, and coevolution between, the algal and fungal partners of lichen associations |
| Dr. h.c. Josef Bogner * | BOT | Evolution and systematics of Araceae |
| Dr. Bernhard Dickoré * | BOT | Taxonomy and biogeography of vascular plants in subtropical, temperate and alpine Eurasia |
| Dr. Peter Döbbeler | MYK | Bryophilous Ascomycetes |
| Dr. Matthias Erben | BOT | Systematics of Limonium and Viola, with a focus on karyotype evolution |
| Dr. Hans-Joachim Esser * | BOT | Euphorbiaceae worldwide; Araliaceae and Rutaceae of southeastern Asia; flora of Thailand |
| Dr. Eva Facher | BOT | German flora and vegetation; morphology and anatomy of vascular plants; development and modification of investigation methods, preparation techniques and special approaches for studies with light- and electron microscopy |
| Dr. Günter Gerlach * | BOT | Evolution and systematics of neotropical orchids |
| PD Dr. Marc Gottschling | BOT | Systematics, phylogenetics, and evolution of boraginales, dinoflagellates, and human papilloma viruses |
| Prof. Dr. Jürke Grau | BOT | Evolution of dry-adapted plant clades in Chile |
| Dr. Andreas Gröger * | BOT | Floristics of the Guayana Highlands and the Caucasus region |
| Prof. Dr. Günther Heubl | BOT | Systematics and evolution of carnivorous angiosperm clades; plant evolution on the Canary Islands |
| Dr. Wolfgang Lippert * | BOT | Flora of Bavaria and the Alps, Systematics of the genera Alchemilla (Rosaceae), Crataegus (Rosaceae), Festuca (Poaceae), Hyssopus (Lamiaceae) |
| Prof. Dr. Dietrich Podlech * | BOT | Floristics of the Near East; systematics of Astragalus |
| Prof. Dr. Susanne Renner | BOT | Angiosperm phylogenetics, sexual system evolution, and biogeography |
| Dr. Konstanze Schubert * | MYK | Phytopathogenic fungi |
| Dr. Franz Schuhwerk * | BOT | European floristics; Hieracium |
| Dr. Dagmar Triebel * | MYK | Ascomycetes; lichenicolous fungi; biodiversity informatics |
| Dr. Markus Weiß * | MYK | Secondary metabolism of tree roots, colonized by mycorrhizal and pathogenic fungi; Ecology and identification of ectomycorrhizae |
*) honorary staff
Postdocs
| Dr. Jelena Aleksic * | BOT | |
| Dr. Philomena Bodensteiner | MYK | Anatomical and molecular studies on relationships and evolution of cyphelloid basidiomycetes |
| Dr. Christian Bräuchler | BOT | Phylogenetic relationships within Menthinae (Lamiaceae, Nepetoideae, Mentheae) with special focus on the Satureja complex |
| Dr. Natalie Cusimano | BOT | DFG-fundet project: Ph.D. research on "Extremes in chromosome numbers in closely related taxa: A combined approach to studying the underlying karyotype evolution" |
| Dr. Florian Jabbour | BOT | Phylogeny, biogeography and floral development in the tribe Delphinieae (Aconitum and Delphinium (including Consolida and Aconitella); Ranunculaceae) |
| Dr. Derek Peršoh | MYK | Fungal diversity and evolution; Factors determining fungal community structure; Fungus-Arthropod interaction |
| Dr. Mathieu Piednoël * | BOT | Genome characterization of non-photosynthetic parasitic plants (Orobanchaceae) using 454 pyrosequencing |
| Dr. Juan Carlos Villarreal * | BOT | Evolution of hornworts: Building a world-wide phylogeny to resolve all major clades |
*) recent postdocs
Former postdocs
| Name | Field of research | |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Natalia Filipowicz | BOT | DAAD scholarship: Moderne Anwendungen der Biotechnologie |
| Dr. Shi-Xiao Luo | BOT | Dr. Luo is a researcher at the South China Botanical Garden in Guanghjou. Shixiao worked on the reproductive biology of Phyllanthaceae, of Illicium, and Clerodendrum, all in a comparative phylogenetic framework. |
| BOT | Dr. Ryan Oyama now a manager at Pioneer Hi-Bred in Hawaii. In the Renner lab, Ryan worked on sex-linked loci in Bryonia (Cucurbitaceae). | |
| BOT | Dr. Hanno Schäfer now a postdoc with Charles Davis in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. In the Renner lab, Hanno worked on Cucurbitaceae and Ctenoplectra bees. | |
| Dr. Boris Schlumpberger | BOT | Herrenhäuser Gärten, Herrenhäuser Str. 4, 30419 Hannover Telefon: 0511 16847575, Fax: +49 511 16847374 E-Mail:  |
| Dr. Ewa Siedlecka | BOT | DAAD project: Expression of the Gy/gy candidate gene for sex determination in four species of Cucurbitaceae |
M.Sc. students, doctoral students
| Name | Field of research | |
|---|---|---|
| Sidonie Bellot | BOT | Ph.D. research on "Using next-generation-sequencing to study the organellar genomes of holoparasitic Pilostyles (Apodanthaceae) and to investigate horizontal gene exchange with its legume hosts" |
| Fernanda Antunes Carvalho | BOT | Ph.D. research on "The evolution of the papaya family, Caricaceae" |
| Juliana Chacón | BOT | Ph.D. research on "New insights into the biogeography of the Austral floristic realm from a complete phylogeny for the Alstroemeriaceae" |
| Andreas Fleischmann | BOT | Ph.D. research on "Phylogeny of Genlisea (Lentibulariaceae)" |
| Norbert Holstein | BOT | DFG-funded project: Ph.D. research on "The evolution of dimorphic sex chromosomes in the genus Coccinia (Cucurbitaceae)" |
| Stefan Kattari | BOT | Ph.D. research on "The phylogenetics and biogeography of Teucrium (Lamiaceae)" |
| Lars Nauheimer | BOT | Ph.D. research on "Understanding the distribution of Alocasia: Historical biogeography and climate niche separation in sister species pairs" |
| Agnes Scheunert | BOT | Ph.D. research on "Molecular phylogeny, character evolution, and biogeography of the genus Scrophularia (Scrophulariaceae)" |
| Patrizia Sebastian | BOT | Ph.D. research on "The evolution of the Cucumis and Sicyos clades (Cucurbitaceae)" |
| Sylvia Söhner | BOT | Ph.D. research on "The evolution of dinoflagellates" |
| Aretuza Sousa | BOT | Karyotype evolution in Araceae and molecular cytogenetics in the Typhonium subclade |
| Florian Turini | BOT | Ph.D. research on "Systematics of the genera Ancistrocladus (Ancistrocladaceae) and Ononis (Fabaceae)" |
| Rita Verma | MYK | Ph.D. research on "Diversity and ecology of ectomycorrhizae in Bistorta vivipara (L.) Delarbre (Polygonaceae)" |
| Carmen Zinßmeister | BOT | Ph.D. research on "The evolution of dinoflagellates" |