Curriculum vitae Markus GEISLER

Milestones of academic career
CV Markus Geisler
Curriculum vitae Markus GEISLER
Date of Birth April 10, 1965 in Düsseldorf, Germany
Nationality German and Swiss
Marital status cohabitant, 2 daughters
Private address Mutschellenstrasse 103
CH-8038 Zürich
phone +41-43-243 11 16
mobile +41-78-804 58 00
University address University of Fribourg
Department of Biology – Plant Biology
Chemin du Musée 10
CH-1700 Fribourg
Phone +41-26-300-8827
e-mail: markus.geisler@unifr.ch
today- Research Associate (Maître assist.) at the University of Fribourg
2011 Department of Biology, Plant Biology; director: Prof. J.-P. Metraux
Regulation of auxin transport complexes
2009 Venia legendi (Habilitation) in Plant biology
(Plant Biochemistry and Cell biology)
University of Zurich, Switzerland (October 2, 2009)
2010- Research Associate (Oberassistent) at the University of Zürich
2002 Institute of Plant Biology, director: Prof. E. Martinoia
Regulation of auxin transport complexes
2002- Postdoc at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
1999 Physiologie Végétale, director: Prof. E. Martinoia
Auxin and heavy metal transport via ABC transporters
1998- Postdoc at the University of Copenhagen
1996 director: Prof. M.G. Palmgren
Regulation of vacuolar Ca 2+ -ATPases from Arabidopsis
1996 Dr. rer. nat. (~ PhD) University of Düsseldorf, Germany
Institute of Plant Biochemistry, director: Prof. H. Strotmann
"Molecular Characterization of the P-type Ca 2+ -ATPase from
Synechocystis PCC 6803"
1992 Dipl. Biol. (~ MSc.) University of Düsseldorf, Germany
Institute of Plant Biochemistry, director: Prof. H. Strotmann
"Molecular Biological Characterization of P-type ATPases from the
cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803"
Key research expertise
1. Regulation and drug-modulation of auxin transport complexes
2. Interactomics of auxin transport complexes
3. Chemical genetic screens for natural and synthetic growth regulators
4. In silico analysis of auxin transport complex functionality and interaction
Selected professional activities
Fellowships
JSPS Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan (10/07)
Fellow of the Novartis Foundation (03/00 - 02/01)
Feodor-Lynen fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (03/99 - 02/00)
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Research grants
Pool de Recherche University of Fribourg (01/12-05/12)
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF, 07/09-12/12)
Forschungskredit University of Zurich (08/08-04/09)
Danish Research School for Biotechnology (FOBI, 10/07-09/10)
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF, 07/06-06/09)
Novartis Foundation (03/07 - 02/08)
Invited reviews
Trends in Plant Sciences (2007, 2008), FEBS Lett. (2006), Planta (2002), BBA (2000)
Editorial work and research evaluation
Ad hoc reviewing of manuscripts
Development, J. Mol. Biol., The Plant Cell, Plant J., J. Exp. Bot., Chem. Reviews, FEBS Lett.,
Cell. Mol. Life Sci., Plant Physiol. and Biochem., J. Plant Phys., Phytochemistry, Biologica, Plant
Science, Planta, Protoplasma, Plant Biology, New Phytologist, etc.
Evaluation of grant applications
National Science Foundation (USA), Israel Science Foundation (Israel), NOW (NL) and SNF
(Switzerland)
Member of the assessment committee for the evaluation of professor positions at the
University of Copenhagen (2008, 2009)
Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Plant Traffic and Transport
Associate editor of Plant Signaling & Behavior (PSB)
Editor for Springer book series “Transporters and pumps in plant signaling” (2010)
Editor for Frontiers Research topic “Evolution of transporters in plants” (2011 & 2012)
Selected oral presentations at international conferences (last 5 years: invited
lectures in bold)
- 2 nd International Symposium “Auxins and Cytokinins in Plant Development”
(Prague, 2005)
- FEBS Special Meeting ”ATP-Binding Cassette (ABC) Proteins: From Multidrug
Resistance to Genetic Diseases” (Innsbruck, 2006)
- “ASPB Meeting” (Boston, 2006)
- 14 th International Workshop on “Plant Membrane Biology” (Valencia,
2007)
- “Frontiers in Phytohormone Science” (Lausanne/Switzerland, 2007)
- DFG Priority Program 1108 ”Dynamics and regulation of plant
membrane transport “(Hirschberg/Germany, 2008)
- 4 th Symposium on “Plant Neurobiology” (Fukuoka, 2008)
- SEB Plant Transport Group Meeting (Manchester, 2008)
- 5 th International symposium on “Plant Neurobiology” (Firenze, 2009)
- Phoenix 2009 Symposium “Protein Complexes in Signaling and
Development” (Glasgow, 2009)
- “Plant Growth Regulation” (Potsdam, April 12-14, 2010)
- 20th “International Plant Growth Substances (IPGSA) Conference”
(Tarragona, Spain 2010)
- 15 th International Workshop on Plant Membrane Biology (Kurashiki, Japan
2013)
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List of Publications (last 5 years)
For a complete publication list, see: http://perso.unifr.ch/markus.geisler/
geislerlab/CV.html
A. Peer-reviewed original articles
1. Wang B, Henrichs S and Geisler M * (2012) Regulation of interactive ABCB/PIN
auxin transport by the AGC kinase, PINOID. Plant Sign. Behav. in press
2. Ding Z, Wang B, Moreno I, Dupláková N, Simon S, Carraro N, Reemmer J, Pěnčík
A, Chen X, Tejos R, Skůpa P, Pollmann S, Mravec J, Petrášek J, Zažímalová E, Honys
D, Rolčík J, Murphy A, López AO, Geisler M & Friml J (2012) ER-localized auxin
transporter PIN8 regulates auxin homoeostasis and male gametophyte development
in Arabidopsis. Nature Comm. doi: 10.1038/ncomms.1941
3. Henrichs S, Wang B, Fukao Y, Jinsheng Zhu, Laurence Charrier, Bailly A, Oehring
S.C., Gündel M, Weiwad M, Endler A, Nanni P, Pollmann S, Mancuso S, Schulz A,
Geisler M * (2012) Regulation of ABCB1/PGP1-catalyzed auxin transport by linker
phosphorylation. EMBO J. doi10.1038/emboj.2012.120
4. Barbez Kubes EM, Rolcik J, Beziat C, Pěnčík A, Wang B, Ruiz Rosquete M, Zhu J,
Lee Y, Zazimalova E, Petrasek J, Geisler M, Friml J, Kleine-Vehn J (2012) A novel
putative auxin carrier family regulates intracellular auxin homeostasis in plants.
Nature doi10.1038/nature.11001
5. Bailly A, Yang H, Martinoia E, Geisler M * , and Murphy A (2011) Plant lessons:
Understanding substrate specificity through structural modeling of ABCBs. Front.
Plant Sci. 2: 108. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2011.00108
6. Burgardt NI, Linnert M, Weiwad M, Geisler M, Fischer G, Lücke C. NMR
assignments of the FKBP-type PPIase domain of FKBP42 from Arabidopsis thaliana
(2011) Biomol NMR Assign doi10.1007/s12104-011-9352-z
7. Kuhn BM, Geisler M, Bigler L, Ringli C (2011) Asymmetric accumulation and cellautonomous
action of flavonols in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant J 156: 585
8. Park J, Song WY, Mendoza-Cózatl DG, Sutter M, Shim D, Hörtensteiner S, Geisler
M, Rentsch D, Schroeder JI, Lee Y, Martinoia E (2010) Arsenic tolerance in
Arabidopsis is mediated by two ABCC-type phytochelatin transporters PNAS 107:
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9. Song WY, Choi KW, KimD-Y, Geisler M, Park Y, Vincenzetti V, Schellenberg M,
Kim SH, Lim YP, Noh EW, Lee Y, and Martinoia E (2010) Arabidopsis Pcr2 is a zinc
exporter involved in both zinc extrusion and long-distance zinc transport. Plant Cell
22: 1
* Corresponding authorship
1 Awarded the Cozzarelli Prize (Class VI) in 2010
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10. Růžička K, Strader LC, Bailly A, Yang H, Blakeslee J, Łangowski L, Nejedlá E, Fujita
H, Ito H, Syōno K, Hejátko J, Gray WB, Martinoia E, Geisler M, Murphy M, Bartel B
and Friml J (2010) Arabidopsis PIS1 encodes the ABCG37 transporter of auxinic
compounds including the auxin precursor indole-3-butyric acid. PNAS 107: 10749
11. Kim JY, Henrichs S, Sovero V, Bailly A, Mancuso S, Pollmann S, Kim D, Geisler M *
and Nam GH * (2010) Identification of an ABCB/P-glycoprotein-specific inhibitor of
auxin transport by chemical genomics. J. Biol. Chem. 285: 23309
12. De Carbonnel M, Davis P, Roelfsema MRG, Inoue S, Schepens I, Lariguet P,
Geisler M, Shimazaki K, Hangarter R and Fankhauser C (2010) The Arabidopsis
PHYTOCHROME KINASE SUBSTRATE 2 protein is a phototropin signaling element
that regulates leaf flattening and leaf positioning. Plant Phys. 152: 1391
13. Mravec J, Skůpa P, Bailly A, Křeček P, Hoyerová K, Bielach A, Petrášek J, Zhang J,
Gaykova V, Stierhof Y-D, Schwarzerová K, Rolčík J, Dobrev P, Seifertová D, Luschnig
C, Benková E, Zažímalová E, Geisler M, Friml J (2009) ER-localized PIN5 auxin
transporter mediates subcellular homeostasis of plant hormone auxin. Nature 459:
1136
14. Wojas S., Henning J, Plaza S., Geisler M., Siemianowski O, Skłodowska A.,
Ruszczyńska A, Bulska E. and Antosiewicz D.M. (2009) Ectopic expression of
Arabidopsis ABC transporter MRP7 modifies the cadmium and lead root-to-shoot
distribution. Env. Pollution 157: 2781
15. Santelia D, Henrichs S, Vincenzetti V, Sauer M, Bigler L, Klein M, Bailly A, Lee Y,
Friml J, Geisler M * and Martinoia E* (2008) Flavonoids redirect polar auxin fluxes
during gravitropic responses. J. Biol. Chem. 283: 31218
16. Titapiwatanakun B, Blakeslee J, Bandyopadhyay A, Yang H, Mravec J, Sauer M,
Chen Y, Adamec J, Nagashima A, Geisler M, Sakai T, Friml, J, Peer W, Murphy A
(2008) ABCB19/PGP19 stabilizes PIN1 on membrane microdomains in Arabidopsis.
Plant J. 57: 27
17. Verrier PJ, Bird D, Burla B, Dassa, E, Forestier C, Geisler M 2 , Klein M,
Kolukisaoglu Ü, Lee Y, Martinoia E, Murphy A, Rea PA, Samuels L, Schulz B, Spalding
E, Yazaki Y and Theodoulou FL (2008) Plant ABC proteins - a unified nomenclature
and updated inventory. Trends Plant Sci. 13: 151
18. Bailly A, Sovero V, Vincenzetti V, Santelia D, Bartnik D, König B, Mancuso S,
Martinoia E and Geisler M * (2008) Drug-mediated modulation of P-glycoproteinmediated
auxin transport conferred by interaction with immunophilins. J. Biol. Chem.
283: 21817
19. Bandyopadhyay A, Blakeslee JJ, Le OR, Mravec J, Sauer M, Titapiwatanakun B,
Makam SN, Bouchard R, Geisler M, Martinoia E, Friml J, Peer WA, and Murphy AS
(2007) Interactions of PIN and PGP auxin transport mechanisms. Biochem. Soc.
Trans. 35: 137
2 listed in alphabetical order
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20. Geisler M * and Bailly A (2007) Tête-à-tête: FKBPs function as key players in
plant development. Trends Plant Sci. 12: 465
21. Blakeslee JJ, Bandyopadhyay A, Lee OR, Mravec J, Sauer M, Titapiwatanakun M,
Makam SN, Cheng Y, Bouchard R, Adamec J, Geisler M, Nagashima A, Sakai T,
Martinoia E, Friml J, Peer WA, Murphy AS (2007) Interactions among PINFORMED
(PIN) and P-glycoprotein (PGP) auxin transporters in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell
19: 131
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