Dr. Martin Bayer (Group Leader)
Martin studied Biology at the Universities of Mainz and Hohenheim in Germany, supported by the German National Academic Foundation. He did his PhD thesis on engineering reversible male sterility in transgenic wheat in the lab of Dieter Hess at the University of Hohenheim. For his postdoctoral studies, he joined the lab of Wolfgang Lukowitz at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA. Supported by a fellowship of the German Science Foundation (DFG), he worked on cell polarity and early pattern formation in the Arabidopsis embryo. For a 6-month period, he joined the lab of Ueli Grossniklaus at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He then moved to the Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tübingen as a group leader in the Department of Cell Biology in 2009. Since 2022, he is a Group Leader and Heisenberg Fellow at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Tübingen.
Torren Bischoff (PhD student)
Torren received his Master in Nano-Science at Eberhard-Karls University in Tübingen. Since 2022, he works as PhD student in the Bayer Lab.
In his project, he focuses on the role of a subset of Aux/IAA proteins in early embryo development and their regulation by auxin dependent and auxin independent signaling.
In his free time he enjoys cooking as well as board and card games of different varieties.
Alexa-Maria Wangler (PhD student)
Alexa got her Bachelor’s Degree in Biology at the University of Hohenheim and her Master degree at the University of Tübingen.
Alexa is interested in understanding the mechanisms underlying the establishment of a primary axis in the early plant embryo. In this quest, she is characterizing key players involved in the formation of a zygotic polarity domain.
She enjoys spending her free time in the countryside, preferably by horseback riding.
Lara Kirchmair (Master student)
Lara got her Bachelor´s degree in Biochemistry at the University of Tübingen and participates in the Cellular and Molecular Plant Biology Master Program at the ZMBP. Therefore, she is currently working on her Master Thesis in the Bayer Lab.
Lara is interested in signaling specificity and a functional overlap in MAPKKK dependent pathways between plant development and immunity.
Besides plant science, she likes cats, crocheting and going to the gym.
Patricia Weber (Master student)
Patricia studied Biology in her bachelor’s at the University of Tübingen. She continued her Master studies at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology, where she is currently doing her Master thesis in the Bayer lab.
Her project focuses on establishing the role of a possible key player, which might be involved in the mechanism underlying the primary axis formation in the early plant embryo.
Patricia enjoys spending her free time doing sports and creating art.
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