Contact
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Fakultät für Biologie
Systematik, Biodiversität & Evolution der Pflanzen
Menzinger Str. 67
80638 München
Fakultät für Biologie
Systematik, Biodiversität & Evolution der Pflanzen
Menzinger Str. 67
80638 München
Room:
229b, second floor
Phone:
+49 89 17861-285
Email:
R.Ferrari@lmu.de
Publications
Research interests
My research is focused on the molecular mechanisms, transcriptional dynamics, and physiology of C4 and CAM as photosynthetic adaptations. I am interested in long-term evolutionary processes and also in short-term responses to water and nutrient availability. Understanding carbon concentrating mechanisms is very timely for agriculture and environment conservation, especially in the context of climate change.
Collaboration partners
- Dr. Thibaud Messerschmidt (Botanischer Garten München-Nymphenburg)
- Dr. Ivan Reyna-Llorens (Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics)
- Dr. James Hartwell (University of Liverpool)
- Dr. Alistair Leverett (University of Cambridge)
- Prof. Luciano Freschi (University of Sao Paulo)
- Dr. Tino Kreszies (Wageningen University and Research)
- Prof. Klaus DIttert (University of Göttingen)
- Dr. Katharina Budde (Northwest German Forest Research Institute)
- Dr. Victor Chano (University of Göttingen)
- Prof. Oliver Gailing (University of Göttingen)