Education

Ph.D, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, 1996

Current position

Professor (W3) and Chair, Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Department of Biology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Selected Publications (out of 175 papers)

1. Eisenhut, M., Brautigam, A., Timm, S., Florian, A., Tohge, T., Fernie, A. R., Bauwe, H. and Weber, A. P. (2017). Photorespiration Is Crucial for Dynamic Response of Photosynthetic Metabolism and Stomatal Movement to Altered CO2 Availability. Mol Plant 10(1): 47-61.
2. Schuler, M. L., Mantegazza, O. and Weber, A. P. (2016). Engineering C4 photosynthesis into C3 chassis in the synthetic biology age. Plant J 87(1): 51-65.
3. Ball, S. G., Bhattacharya, D. and Weber, A. P. (2016). EVOLUTION. Pathogen to powerhouse. Science 351(6274): 659-660.
4. Ort, D. R., Merchant, S. S., Alric, J., Barkan, A., Blankenship, R. E., Bock, R., Croce, R., Hanson, M. R., Hibberd, J. M., Long, S. P., Moore, T. A., Moroney, J., Niyogi, K. K., Parry, M. A., Peralta-Yahya, P. P., Prince, R. C., Redding, K. E., Spalding, M. H., van Wijk, K. J., Vermaas, W. F., von Caemmerer, S., Weber, A. P., Yeates, T. O., Yuan, J. S. and Zhu, X. G. (2015). Redesigning photosynthesis to sustainably meet global food and bioenergy demand. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 112(28): 8529-8536.
5. Heckmann, D., Schulze, S., Denton, A., Gowik, U., Westhoff, P., Weber, A. P. and Lercher, M. J. (2013). Predicting C4 photosynthesis evolution: modular, individually adaptive steps on a Mount Fuji fitness landscape. Cell 153(7): 1579-1588.
6. Schonknecht, G., Chen, W. H., Ternes, C. M., Barbier, G. G., Shrestha, R. P., Stanke, M., Brautigam, A., Baker, B. J., Banfield, J. F., Garavito, R. M., Carr, K., Wilkerson, C., Rensing, S. A., Gagneul, D., Dickenson, N. E., Oesterhelt, C., Lercher, M. J. and Weber, A. P. (2013). Gene transfer from bacteria and archaea facilitated evolution of an extremophilic eukaryote. Science 339(6124): 1207-1210.
7. Pick, T. R., Brautigam, A., Schulz, M. A., Obata, T., Fernie, A. R. and Weber, A. P. (2013). PLGG1, a plastidic glycolate glycerate transporter, is required for photorespiration and defines a unique class of metabolite transporters. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 110(8): 3185-3190.
8. Price, D. C., Chan, C. X., Yoon, H. S., Yang, E. C., Qiu, H., Weber, A. P., Schwacke, R., Gross, J., Blouin, N. A., Lane, C., Reyes-Prieto, A., Durnford, D. G., Neilson, J. A., Lang, B. F., Burger, G., Steiner, J. M., Loffelhardt, W., Meuser, J. E., Posewitz, M. C., Ball, S., Arias, M. C., Henrissat, B., Coutinho, P. M., Rensing, S. A., Symeonidi, A., Doddapaneni, H., Green, B. R., Rajah, V. D., Boore, J. and Bhattacharya, D. (2012). Cyanophora paradoxa genome elucidates origin of photosynthesis in algae and plants. Science 335(6070): 843-847.