MARTINA PAPONOV

MSc Ingenieur in Plant Sciences
Technical Assistant, Plant breeding MPI Köln
Research Accociate at the Universities Hohenheim and Freiburg
PhD University Freiburg, Botanik
Post-doc NIBIO

Fields of expertise:
– Plant physiology, plant nutrition with agricultural background
– Pot and hydroculture
– General lab management
– Molecular biology, microarrays, realtime PCR, immunolocalisation, confocal microskopy, image analysis,
– Cell suspension, tissue culture

Current research topics :
– Etablation of automated plant phytotyping system under climate regulated conditions
– Etablation of sensors for quantification of plant traits characterizing plant adaptation to environmental conditions
– Investigation of physiological and molecular responses of different plant genotypes to different conditions, which are important for plant growth and development ( in greenhouse)