P8 - UGOE Georg-August-University Göttingen

Wilhelmsplatz 1
37073 Göttingen
GERMANY
http://www.uni-goettingen.de

UGOE has competences in population genetics of trees (mating system, gene flow, spatial and temporal variation) and adaptation at the molecular level, QTL analysis, genetic implications of forest management, and also further competences in tree physiology, characterisation of stress response, analysis of mycorrhizae, transcriptional profiling and proteome analysis, chemical ecology of plantfungus- insect interactions. Three institutes of UGOE are involved in EVOLTREE: Institute of Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding, Institute of Forest Botany (Dept. Tree Physiology and Dept. Molecular Wood Biotechnology), Institue of Forest Zoology and Forest Conservation


The key persons involved in the NoE are:

Reiner Finkeldey is Dean of Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology (since 2006) and chair for Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding, Göttingen University (since 2001). He hold diplomas in Forestry of the Temperate Region and Tropical Forestry (1988), Dr forest (1992), Habilitation (2000). Long-term research assignments in Southeast-Asia (1993-1997) and Switzerland (1997-2001).

Ursula Kües is Chair in Molecular Wood Biotechnology since 2001 at Göttingen University. He holds a PhD in Biology in Berlin and he has done a Postdoc in Oxford (UK; 1991-1994). He is group leader in Zürich (Switzerland; 1999-2001; Habilitation 1999). He works at the Editorial Board of Applied Microbiology and Current Genetics.

Andrea Polle is Chair for Tree Physiology at the Forest Botanical Institut at the University Göttingen. He hold a PhD in Biophysics (1986), Habilitation in Ecophysiology (1995). He is member of Scientific advisory boards (Trees, Oecologia, Plant Cell and Environment), and is referee for funding agencies (NERC, EU, NSF, DFG, etc) and scientific journals.

Stefan Schütz is Director of the Institute of Forest Zoology and Forest Conservation at Göttingen University since 2002. He hold diplomas in Chemistry (1988), Diploma Biology (1990), Dr rer. nat. in Chemistry (1991), Habilitation (2000), Fachbereich Agrarwissenschaften. He was Professor for Chemoecology in Ulm (2001). He is Associate Editor of Journal of Applied Entomology.