Research Group
Gutjahr
Contact
Division of Genetics
Grosshaderner Str. 2-4
D-82152 Martinsried
Germany
Room:
E03.043
Phone:
+49 (0)89 / 2180-74733
Fax:
+49 (0)89 / 2180-74702
Further Information
Since May 2015
Postdoc in the Gutjahr lab, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich (Germany)
2009-2014
Doctoral thesis in the lab of Jörg Meurer, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich (Germany)
"Establishment of photosynthetic complexes in the chloroplast"
2003-2009
Studies of Biology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich (Germany)
Diploma thesis in the lab of Hans-Ulrich Koop "Plastid transformation in Brassica napus"
AWARDS
2015 1st Poster Prize at COST meeting on Chemistry and Biochemistry of Strigolactones in Bucharest, Romania
PUBLICATIONS
Plöchinger M, Torabi S, Rantala M, Tikkanen M, Suorsa M, Jensen PE, Aro EM, Meurer J (2016)
The low molecular weight protein PsaI stabilizes the light-harvesting complex II docking site of photosystem I.
Plant Physiology 172: 450-463.
Manavski N*, Torabi S*, Lezhneva L, Aarif MA, Frank W, Meurer J (2015)
HIGH CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE145 binds to and stabilizes the psaA 5' UTR via a newly defined repeat motif in embryophyta.
Plant Cell 27, 2600-2615.
Torabi S, Plöchinger M, Meurer J (2014)
Localization and topology of thylakoid membrane proteins in land plants.
Bio Protocol Volume 4, Issue 24
Torabi S, Umate P, Manavski N, Plöchinger M, Kleinknecht L, Bogireddi H, Herrmann RG, Wanner G, Schröder WP, Meurer J (2014)
PsbN is required for assembly of the photosystem II reaction center in Nicotiana tabacum.
Plant Cell 26, 1183-1199.
Wittek F, Torabi S, Kolb M, Walther UI (2014)
Pro-oxidative toxicity of cells in suspension does not point to a cell cultural artefact as an explanation of the increased susceptibility of alveolar epithelial-like cells after glucocorticoid pretreatment.
Toxicology in Vitro 28, 1089-1096.
Manavski N, Torabi S, Stoppel R, Meurer J (2012)
Phylogenetic and ontogeneticintegration of organelles into the compartmentalized genome of the eukaryotic cell.
Journal of Endocytobiosis and Cell Research 23, 25-31.
Stoppel R, Lezhneva, L, Schwenkert S, Torabi S, Felder S, Meierhoff K, Westhoff P, and Meurer J (2011)
Recruitment of a ribosomal release factor for light- and stress-dependent regulation of petB transcript stability in Arabidopsis chloroplasts.
Plant Cell 23, 2680-2695.
* equal contribution