Education

Diploma in Biology, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany, 2010

Current position

Ph.D. student, Department of Molecular Ecology, MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

Publications

1. Schäfer, M., Meza-Canales, I. D., Navarro-Quezada, A., Brutting, C., Vankova, R., Baldwin, I. T. and Meldau, S. (2014). Cytokinin levels and signaling respond to wounding and the perception of herbivore elicitors in Nicotiana attenuata. J Integr Plant Biol.
   
2. Schäfer, M., Brutting, C., Gase, K., Reichelt, M., Baldwin, I. and Meldau, S. (2013). 'Real time' genetic manipulation: a new tool for ecological field studies. Plant J 76(3): 506-518.
   
3. Schäfer, M., Fischer, C., Baldwin, I. T. and Meldau, S. (2011). Grasshopper oral secretions increase salicylic acid and abscisic acid levels in wounded leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Signal Behav 6(9): 1256-1258.
   
4. Schäfer, M., Fischer, C., Meldau, S., Seebald, E., Oelmuller, R. and Baldwin, I. T. (2011). Lipase activity in insect oral secretions mediates defense responses in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol 156(3): 1520-1534.