Curriculum Vitae of Dr. Thomas Pfannschmidt

Nationality       German

ORCID              0000-0002-7532-3467

 

Academic Appointments

Since 4/2019     Professor (W3) for Plant Physiology, Institute for Botany, Leibniz-University Hannover

2012 - 2019       Full Professor at Université Grenoble-Alpes (UGA), France; Head of Research Team “Nucleo-plastidic interaction: Chloroplast biogenesis and redox control” at the Laboratoire Physiologie Cellulaire et Végétale

2011 - 2012       Associate Professor, Friedrich-Schiller-University (FSU) Jena

2005 - 2011       Assistant Professor, FSU Jena, Head of Independent Junior Research Group “Plant Acclimation to Environment: Protein Analysis by Mass Spectrometry”

2001 - 2005       Scientific Assistant, Department for Plant Physiology, FSU Jena

1999 - 2001       Postdoctoral Fellow, Department for Plant Physiology, FSU Jena

1997 - 1999       Postdoctoral Fellow, Plant Cell Physiology and Molecular Biology, Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB)

1995 – 1997      DFG Post-Doc-Fellowship, Research project on “Redox control of plastid gene expression” at the University of Lund (Sweden) and RUB

 

Membership in Collaborative Research Programs

2024 - 2027       SPP 2237 MAdLand (Molecular Adaptations to Land), Göttingen, Germany

2015 - 2019       Lab of Excellence GRAL (“Grenoble Alliance” for Structural Research), France

2007 - 2013       DFG Research Group FOR 804 “Retrograde signalling”, Berlin, Germany

2002 - 2006       DFG Research Group FOR 387 “Redox Regulation”, Bielefeld, Germany

2001 - 2004       SFB 604 “Multifunctional signal proteins”, Jena, Germany

 

Academic Degrees

2003                  Habilitation and venia legendi in Botany, FSU Jena

1991 - 1994       Thesis (Dr. rer. nat.), RUB

1985 - 1990       Study of Biology (Diploma), Main subjects: Botany, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Physiological Chemistry; RUB

 

Reviewing activities

Manuscript reviews for all leading journals in Life and Plant Sciences including: Cell, Science, Nature, Nature Plants, Nature Communications, PNAS, Plant Cell, Plant Physiology, Plant Journal, New Phytologist, Journal of Experimental Botany, Planta, Frontiers in Plant Sciences, Transactions of the Royal Society, Molecular Plant and many more.

Reviews of project proposals for national and international funding agencies including: German Research Foundation (DFG), European Research Council (ERC), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Can­ada (NSERC), National Science Foundation (NSF) USA, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) UK, Swiss National Fund, 

Austrian Science Foundation, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO) Belgium, Israelian Science Foundation (ISF), Agence Nationale de Recherche (ANR), France 

Invited Opponent and PhD defence committee member: Sorbonne Universite (France), University of Umea (Sweden), University of Linköping (Sweden), University of Lund (Sweden).

Organisation of national and international meetings

2018: Jacques-Monod-Conference on “Retrograde Signalling”, Roscoff (France) (130 participants); 2014: “Plastids: Differentiation and communication”, Grenoble (France) (80 participants); 2012: “10th Meeting of Middle-German Plant Physiology”, Jena (Germany) (65 participants).

Invited speaker at international conferences (selection)

ESF/EMBO Workshop: Biology of plastids (2014) Putulsk (Poland); Gordon Research Conference on “Chloroplast Biotechnologie” (2015) Ventura Beach, California (USA); International Meeting “Organelle and Stress Biology” (2020), Shanghai (China), FEBS Meeting “Chloroplast signalling” (2022), Primosten (Croatia),  International Meeting of TR175 “Chloroplast: From Genes to Systems” (2022), Kloster Irsee (Germany), Gordon Research Conference on Chloroplast Biotechnology (2025), Tuscany, Italy; International Conference on Chloroplast Research (2025), Seeon (Germany)

Engagement in the Research System

Numerous activities during the career. Some examples of recent years:

2023 - today Chief editor of section Photomorphogenesis in the journal Frontiers in Photobiology

2022 Head of Benchmarking Committee for the Biosciences at LUH, Member of LUH delegation establishing a cooperation with Universite Paris-Saclay, France

2020 Editor of special issue “Retrograde signaling” for Transactions of the Royal Society, UK

2019 and 2023 Member of DFG Evaluation Board for TRR175 “The Green Hub”

2019 Member of Scientific Advisory Board for the a new Master Study “Molecular Cell Biology”, University Bielefeld

Supervision of Researchers in Early Career Phases

Habilitations: 2015 Dr. Livia Merendino CR2 CNRS Grenoble, France (now Universite Paris-Saclay); 2018 Dr. Robert Blanvillain MCU Universite Grenoble-Alpes, France

Dissertations: Dr. Vidal Fey (2005, now Group leader University Turku, Finland), Dr. Raik Wagner (2007, now permanent Scientist Umea Plant Science Center, Sweden), Dr. Katharina Bräutigam 2008, now Professor at University of Toronto, Canada); Dr. Lars Dietzel (2009, now permanent Scientist University Frankfurt, Germany) Dr. Sebastian Steiner (2011, now permanent Scientist KWS Company Einbeck, Germany), Dr. Yvonne Schröter (2014, now Scientist KWS, Germany); Dr. Monique Liebers (2017, now Scientist LUH, Germany), Dr. Maha Chieb (2019, now Scientist UCLA Davies, USA), Dr. Carolina Cozzi (2024).

Publikationsliste Dr. Sascha Offermann

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2023


Liebers M, Hommel E, Grübler B, Danehl J, Offermann S, Pfannschmidt T. Photosynthesis in the Biomass Model Species Lemna minor Displays Plant-Conserved and Species-Specific Features. Plants. 2023 Jun 25;12(13):2442. doi: 10.3390/plants12132442

2022


Chuang L, Enders A, Offermann S, Bahnemann J, Franke J. 3D-printed autoclavable plant holders to facilitate large-scale protein production in plants. Engineering in life sciences. 2022 Dez;22(12):803-810. Epub 2022 Dez 8. doi: 10.1002/elsc.202200001, 10.15488/13092
Hommel E, Liebers M, Offermann S, Pfannschmidt T. Effectiveness of Light-Quality and Dark-White Growth Light Shifts in Short-Term Light Acclimation of Photosynthesis in Arabidopsis. Frontiers in Plant Science. 2022 Jan 3;12:615253. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.615253

2019


Adwy WEFA, Schlüter U, Papenbrock J, Peterhänsel C, Offermann S. Loss of the M-box from the glycine decarboxylase P-subunit promoter in C2 Moricandia species. Plant Gene. 2019 Jun;18:100176. Epub 2019 Feb 21. doi: 10.1016/j.plgene.2019.100176
Minges A, Janßen D, Offermann S, Groth G. Efficient In Vivo Screening Method for the Identification of C4 Photosynthesis Inhibitors Based on Cell Suspensions of the Single-Cell C4 Plant Bienertia sinuspersici. Frontiers in Plant Science. 2019 Okt 30;10:1350. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.01350
Wimmer D, Bohnhorst P, Impe D, Hwang I, Offermann S. Agrobacterium-mediated transient transformation of Bienertia sinuspersici to assay recombinant protein distribution between dimorphic chloroplasts. Plant cell reports. 2019 Jul 1;38(7):779-782. Epub 2019 Jan 19. doi: 10.1007/s00299-019-02375-4

2017


Wimmer D, Bohnhorst P, Shekhar V, Hwang I, Offermann S. Transit peptide elements mediate selective protein targeting to two different types of chloroplasts in the single-cell C4 species Bienertia sinuspersici. Scientific reports. 2017 Jan 23;7:41187. doi: 10.1038/srep41187

2016


Erlinghaeuser M, Hagenau L, Wimmer D, Offermann S. Development, subcellular positioning and selective protein accumulation in the dimorphic chloroplasts of single-cell C4 species. Current opinion in plant biology. 2016 Jun;31:76-82. Epub 2016 Apr 11. doi: 10.1016/j.pbi.2016.03.017

2015


Offermann S, Friso G, Doroshenk KA, Sun Q, Sharpe RM, Okita TW et al. Developmental and Subcellular Organization of Single-Cell C₄ Photosynthesis in Bienertia sinuspersici Determined by Large-Scale Proteomics and cDNA Assembly from 454 DNA Sequencing. Journal of proteome research. 2015 Mai 1;14(5):2090-108. doi: 10.1021/pr5011907

2014


Offermann S, Peterhansel C. Can we learn from heterosis and epigenetics to improve photosynthesis? Current opinion in plant biology. 2014 Jun;19:105-10. doi: 10.1016/j.pbi.2014.05.010