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Address:

Helmholtz Zentrum München,
Ingolstädter Landstraße 1,
85764 München/Neuherberg,
Germany

Education:

since 1990:

Head of Group

2000-2003:

Guest Professor at Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria

1996:

Habilitation and Venia Legendi in Botany, LMU München

since 1990:

Research Assistant at Helmholtz Zentrum München (former GSF),
Institute of Biochemical Plant Pathology, Neuherberg

1985-1990:

Research Assistant at Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried

1983-1985:

Postdoc at Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried

1983:

Dissertation (Dr. rer. nat.) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

1979-1980:

NATO grant in cooperation with Prof. Dr. R. P. Pharis,
University of Calgary, Canada

1973-1979:

Study of Biology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Selected Publications:

Olbrich, M, Gerstner, E, Bahnweg, G, Häberle, K-H, Matyssek, R, Welzl, G, Heller, W, Ernst, D. Transcriptional signatures in leaves of adult European beech trees (Fagus sylvatica L.) in an experimentally enhanced free air ozone setting. Environ. Pollut. 158, 977-982 (2010)

Matyssek, R. Sandermann, H, Wieser, G, Booker, F, Cieslik, S, Musselman, R, Ernst, D. The challenge of making ozone risk assessment for forest trees more mechanistic. Environ. Pollut. 156, 567-582 (2008)

Olbrich, M, Betz, G, Gerstner, E, Langebartels, C, Sandermann, H, Ernst, D. Transcriptome analysis of ozone-responsive genes in leaves of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.). Plant Biol. 7, 670-676 (2005)

Sahr, T, Voigt, G, Paretzke, HG, Schramel, P, Ernst, D. Caesium-affected gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana. New Phytol. 165, 747-754 (2005)

Grimmig, B, Gonzalez-Perez, MN, Leubner-Metzger, G, Vögeli-Lange R, Meins, F, Hain, R, Penuelas, J, Heidenreich, B, Langebartels, C, Ernst, D, Sandermann, H Ozone-induced gene expression occurs via ethylene-dependent and –independent signalling. Plant Mol. Biol. 51, 599-607 (2003)

Heidenreich, B, Mayer, K, Sandermann, H, Ernst, D. Heavy metal-induced genes in Arabidopsis thaliana: identification of specific genes upon long-term mercury pollution. Plant Cell Environm. 24, 1227-1234 (2001)

Chiron, H, Drouet, A, Claudot, A-C, Eckerskorn, C, Trost, M, Heller, W, Ernst, D, Sandermann, H. Molecular cloning and functional expression of a stress-induced multifunctional O-methyltransferase with pinosylvin methyltransferase activity from Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.). Plant Mol. Biol. 44, 733-745 (2000)

Zinser, C, Jungblut, T. Heller, W, Seidlitz, HK, Schnitzler, J-P, Ernst, D, Sandermann, H. The effect of ozone in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.): gene expression, biochemical changes and interactions with UV-B radiation. Plant Cell Environ. 23, 975-982 (2000)

Sandermann, H, Ernst, D, Heller, W, Langebartels, C. Ozone: an abiotic elicitor of plant defence reactions. Trends Plant Sci. 3, 47-50 (1998)

Schubert, R, Fischer, R, Hain, R, Bahnweg, G, Ernst, D, Sandermann, H. An ozone-responsive region in the grapevine resveratrol synthase promoter differs from the basal pathogen-responsive sequence. Plant Mol. Biol. 34, 417-426 (1997)

Eckey-Kaltenbach, H, Kiefer, E, Großkopf, E. Ernst, D, Sandermann, H. Differential transcript induction of parsley pathogenesis-related proteins and of a small heat shock protein by ozone and heat shock. Plant Mol. Biol. 33, 343-350 (1997)

Eckey-Kaltenbach, H, Kiefer, E, Großkopf, E, Ernst, D, Sandermann, H. Differential transcript induction of parsley pathogenesis-related proteins and of a small heat shock protein by ozone and heat shock. Plant Mol. Biol. 33, 343-350 (1997)

Schnitzler, J-P, Jungblut, TP, Heller, W, Köfferlein, M, Hutzler, P, Heinzmann, U, Schmelzer, E, Ernst, D, Langebartels, C, Sandermann, H. Tissue localization of UV-B screening pigments and of chalcone synthase mRNA in needles of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) seedlings. New Phytol. 132, 247-258 (1996)

Eckey-Kaltenbach, H, Ernst, D, Heller, W, Sandermann, H. Biochemical plant responses to ozone. IV. Cross-induction of defensive pathways in parsley (Petroselinum crispum L.) plants. Plant Physiol. 104, 67-74 (1994)

Galliano, H, Cabané, M, Eckerskorn, C, Lottspeich, F, Sandermann, H, Ernst, D. Molecular cloning, sequence analysis and elicitor-/ozone induced accumulation of cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase from spruce (Picea abies L.). Plant Mol. Biol. 23, 145-156 (1993)

Ernst, D, Schraudner, M, Langebartels, C, Sandermann, H. Ozone-induced changes of ß-1,3-glucanase, chitinase and ‘pathogenesis-related’ protein 1b mRNA in tobacco plants. Plant Mol. Biol. 20, 673-682 (1992)