Teaching

Details about all offered courses can be found at TUMonline.

Winter semester

• 0000004862 Lecture 'Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation in eukaryotes' (MSc)
   
• 0000004860 Seminar 'Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation in eukaryotes with special emphasis on plants' (MSc)
   
• 220052930 Plant Science Seminar (for students pursuing practical courses or theses in the Gutjahr lab)
   
• 220069860 Colloquium in Plant Sciences 
   
• 0000004785 Colloquium 'Advances in Genetics of Root Symbioses' (for students pursuing practical courses or theses in the Gutjahr lab)
   
• 0000004788 Seminar 'Journal Club Genetics of Plant and Plant Symbiosis Development'

Summer semester

• 0000005922 Übung 'Praktische Übung Genetik' (BSc Life Science Biologie)
   
• 0000002300 Übung 'Genetisches Praktikum' (Lehramt, Nebenfach)
   
• 0000005981 Lecture 'Genetics and Genomics' (MSc, with Prof. F. Johannes and Prof. A. Tellier)
   
• 0000001885 Seminar 'Genetics and Genomics' (MSc, with Prof. F. Johannes and Prof. A. Tellier)
   
• 220052930 Plant Science Seminar (for students pursuing practical courses or theses in the Gutjahr lab)
   
• 220069860 Colloquium in Plant Sciences 
   
• 0000000387 Colloquium 'Advances in Genetics of Root Symbioses' (for students pursuing practical courses or theses in the Gutjahr lab)
   
• 0000004975 Seminar 'Journal Club Genetics of Plant and Plant Symbiosis Development'
   
• 0000001590 Lecture 'Molecular genetics' (MSc; two lectures by Prof. C. Gutjahr, organized and mainly taught by Prof. R. Torres-Ruiz)
   
• 0000000405 Seminar 'Plant Biotechnology' (MSc; participation; organized by Prof. B. Poppenberger)

Research courses, BSc and MSc theses

• Individual research courses (min. 6 weeks) for BSc and MSc students, BSc and MSc theses in 'Molecular Genetics of Plant-Microbe Symbiosis' can be conducted at any time of the year given that capacities are available. For BSc thesis we strongly recommend to perform a research course in our laboratory before starting the thesis. If you are interested in joining the Gutjahr lab for any of these, please contact Caroline Gutjahr directly by email.

  We offer research topics related to:
  - phytohormone signaling in arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis
  - transcriptional regulation of arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis
  - nutrient exchange/role of lipids in arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis
  - increase of drought stress resistance by arbuscular mycorrhiza

  If you want to obtain a better idea of our research interest before applying for a research course or thesis we recommend reading this comprehensive review article: PDF.
  Techniques and methods will depend on the individual project and may include: golden gate cloning, plant transformation, quantitative real time PCR, phenotypic analysis of roots and fungal structures by microscopy, fluorescence microscopy and analysis of subcellular compartments with fluorescent fusion proteins, handling of plants and arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi, hormone physiology, transactivation assays, protein expression and purification, protein-protein interaction techniques (yeast-2-hybrid, CoIP), Western blotting, large scale plant phenotyping, genetic mapping or genotyping, data analysis using R, preparation of figures in publication quality.
  Many of these techniques are transferable to other (non-plant) organisms.

  To work in our lab you need to have a laboratory liability insurance for students  (Laborhaftpflichtversicherung).

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