Burkhard Schulz Assistant Professor Ph.D. Area of Interest: Plant Biochemical and Molecular Genetics E-mail: Office Phone: (765) 496-3635 Lab Phone: (765) 494-1228 CV

Teaching Responsibilities

• HORT 301, Plant Physiology
• BTNY 553, Plant Growth and Development

PULSe - Interdisciplinary Life Science Training Group

Professional Preparation

1991-1994	Postdoctoral training in plant genetics, University of Arizona, (Advisor: Prof. Feldmann)
1990-1991	Postdoctoral training in plant physiology, IGF-Berlin GmbH, (Advisor: Prof. Willmitzer)
1986-1990	Ph.D., Free University of Berlin. Thesis: "Characterization of the b-incompatibility locus of Ustilago maydis" (Advisor: Prof. R. Kahmann, Max-Planck-Insitut for Molecular Genetics/IGF Berlin)
1978-1986	Diploma in Biology, Free University of Berlin Germany. Thesis: "Phytopathogenicity of Ustilago maydis: The Interaction of yeast and plant cells" (Advisor: Prof. R. Kahmann)

Appointments

2005-	Assistant Professor, Department of Horticulture, Purdue University
2001-2004	Group Leader, ZMBP-Plant Physiology Tübingen (University of Tübingen)
1996-2001	Group Leader, Max Dellbrück-Laboratory (Max Planck Society, Cologne)
1994-1999	Research Associate (Group Leader) University of Cologne. Botanical Institut II (Dept. Prof. U.-I. Flügge) Laboratory based at Max Planck Society, Cologne
1991-1994	Postdoctoral Fellow , University of Arizona, Tucson, Prof. Ken Feldmann-advisor
1990-1991	Postdoctoral Fellow , Institut für Genbiologische Forschung (IGF), Berlin, Dept. Lothar Willmitzer, AG Wolf-Bernd Frommer Project: Sugar Metabolism in Plants
1987-1989	Assistant Lecturer (doctoral candidate), Institut für Genbiologische Forschung (IGF), Berlin, Dept. Regine Kahmann
1985-1987	Research Assistant (diploma candidate 1985/6, doctoral candidate, 1986/7) Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, OWL Regine Kahman

Professional Society Memberships
American Society of Plant Biology (ASPB)

Publications

Recent Publications

Green, R.J., Murphy, A.S., Schulz, B., Watkins, B.A., Ferruzzi, M.G., (2007)  Common tea formulations modulate in vitro digestive recovery of green tea catechins. Mol. Nutr. Food Res. 51, 1152-1162

Crost, B., Kolukisaoglu, U., Schulz, B., Krupinska, K. (2007) An α-galactosidase with an essential function during leaf development Planta 225, 311-320

D'Angelo, C., Weinl, S., Batistic, O., Pandey, G.K., Cheong, Y.H., Schültke, S., Albrecht, V., Ehlert, B., Schulz, B., Harter, K., Luan, S., Bock, R., Kudla, J. (2006) Alternative complex formation of the Ca2+-regulated protein kinase CIPK1 controls abscisic acid-dependent and independent stress responses in Arabidopsis. Plant J., 48, 857-872

Bouchard, R., Bailly, A., Blakeslee, J.J., Oehring, S.C., Vincenzetti, V., Lee, O.R., Paponov, I., Palme, K., Mancuso, S., Murphy, A.S., Schulz, B. and Geisler, M. (2006) Immunophilin-like TWISTED DWARF1 modulates auxin efflux activities of Arabidopsis p-glycoproteins. J. Biol. Chem. 218, 30603-30612

Schulz, B., and Kolukisaoglu, H.Ü. (2006) Genomic analysis of plant ABC transporters: The alphabet of photosynthetic life forms or just holes in membranes? FEBS Lett. 580, 1010-1016

Eckhoff, A., Granzin, J, Kamphausen, T., Buldt, G., Schulz, B. Weiergraeber, O. (2005) Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of immunophilin-like FKBP42 from Arabidopsis thaliana. Acta Cryst. F 61, 363-365

Niewiadomski, P., Knappe, S., Geimer, S., Fischer, K., Schulz, B., Unte, U.S., Rosso, M.G., Ache, P., Flügge, U.I., and Schneider, A. (2005) The Arabidopsis plastidic Glucose 6-Phosphate/Phosphate translocator GPT1 is essential for early plant development. Plant Cell, 17, 760-775

Schulz, B., Frommer, W.B. (2004) A plant ABC transporter takes the lotus seat. Science 306, 622-624

Gutensohn, M., Pahnke, S., Kolukisaoglu, Ü., Schulz, B., Schierhorn, A., Rollwitz, I., Geimer, S., Stöckel, J., Albrecht, V., Flügge, U.I., and Klösgen. R.B. (2004) Characterization of a T-DNA insertion mutant for the plastidic protein import receptor atToc33. Mol. Gen. Genom, 272, 379-396

Klein, M., Geisler, M., Suh, S.J., Kolukisaoglu, H.Ü., Azevedo, L., Plaza, S., Curtis, M.D., Richter, A., Weder, B., Schulz B., and Martinoia, E. (2004) Disruption of AtMRP4, a guard cell plasma membrane ABCC-type ABC transporter, leads to deregulation of stomatal opening and increased drought susceptibility. Plant J. 39, 219-236

Geisler, M., Kolukisaoglu, H.Ü., Brandt, S., Vincenzetti, V., Girin, M., Plaza, S., Paris, N., Kobae, Y., Maeshima M., Schulz, B., and Martinoia, E. (2004) Arabidopsis immunophilin-like TWD1 modulates vacuolar ABC transporter activity by means of protein-protein interaction. Mol. Biol. Cell 15, 3393-3405

Albrecht, V., Weinl, S., Blazevic, D., D'Angelo, C., Batistic, O., Kolukisaoglu, Ü., Bock, R., Schulz, B., Harter, K., and Kudla, J. (2003) The calcium sensor CBL1 integrates plant responses to abiotic stress. Plant Journal 36, 457-470

Geisler, M., Kolukisaoglu, H.Ü., Billion, C., Frangne, N., Dudler, R., Martinoia, E. and Schulz, B. (2003) The plasma membrane-bound immunophilin-like twisted dwarf protein (TWD) interacts with the C-terminus of Arabidopsis ABC transporter AtPGP1 and AtPGP19. Mol. Biol. Cell, 14, 4238-4249

Martinoia, E, Klein M., Geisler M., Kolukisaoglu H.Ü., and Schulz, B. (2002) Multifunctionality of plant ABC transporters – more than just detoxifiers. Planta 214: 345-355

Kolukisaoglu, H.Ü., Klein, M. Geisler, M., Martinoia,, E. and Schulz, B. (2002) Family business: the multidrug-resistance related protein (MRP) ABC transporter genes in Arabidopsis thaliana, Planta 216: 107-119

Kamphausen, T., Fanghänel, J., Neumann, D., Schulz, B., Rahfeld, J.U. (2002) Characterisation of Arabidopsis thaliana AtFKBP42 that is membrane bound and interacts with Hsp90. Plant J. 32: 263-276

Gaedeke, N., Klein, M., Ansorge, M., Kolukisaoglu, H.Ü., Forestier, C., Becker, D., Schulz, B., Mueller-Roeber, B., and Martinoia, E. (2001) The Arabidopsis thaliana ABC-transporter AtMRP5 controls root growth and stomata movement. EMBO J. 20: 1875-1887

Kofler H., Häusler R.E., Schulz B., Gröner F., Flügge U.I., and Weber A. (2000) Molecular characterisation of a new mutant allele of the plastid phosphoglucomutase in Arabidopsis, and complementation of the mutant with the wild-type cDNA. Mol Gen Genet. 263: 978-86

Gutensohn, M., Schulz, B., Nikolay, P. and Flügge, U.I. (2000) Two toc-34 homologs in Arabidopsis thaliana: expression and functional studies. Plant J. 23: 771-783

Publications 1990 – 1999

Häusler, R. E., Schlieben, N. H., Schulz, B., and Flügge, U.-I. (1998) Compensation of decreased triose phosphate/phosphate translocator activity by accelerated starch turnover and glucose transport in transgenic tobacco. Planta 204: 366-376

Baumann, E., Lewald, J., Saedler, H., Schulz, B., and Wisman, E. (1998) Successful PCR-based reverse genetic screens using an En-1 mutagenised Arabidopsis thaliana population generated via single-seed descent. Theor Appl Genet 97: 729-734

Bennett, M.J., Marchant. A., Green, H.G., May, S.T., Ward, S.P., Millner, P.A., Walker, A.R., Schulz, B., and Feldmann, K. A. (1996) Arabidopsis AUX1 gene: a permease-like regulator of auxin-mediated root gravitropism. Science 273: 948-950

Harms, K., Wöhner, R.-V., Schulz, B. and Frommer, W. (1994) Regulation of plasma membrane H+-ATPase genes in potato. Plant Mol. Biol. 26: 979-988

Schulz, B., Frommer, W.B., Flügge, U.I., Hummel, S., Fischer, K. and Willmitzer, L. (1993) Expression of the triose phosphate translocator gene from potato is light dependent and resticted to green tissues. Mol. Gen. Genet. 238: 357-361

Riesmeier, J.W., Flügge, U.I., Schulz, B., Heinecke, D., Heldt, H.W., Willmitzer, L. and Frommer, W.B. (1993) Antisense repression of the chloroplast triose phosphate translocator affects carbon partitioning in transgenic potato plants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90: 6160-6164

Forsthoefel, N.R., Wu, Y., Schulz, B., Bennett, M.J. and Feldmann, K.A. (1992) T-DNA insertion mutagenesis in Arabidopsis: prospects and perspectives. Austral. J. Plant Physiol. 19: 353-366

Schulz, B., Wu, Y., Dilkes, B.P., Bennett, M.J. and Feldmann, K.A. (1992) Light regulatory dwarfs in Arabidopsis as a model system to study photomorphogenesis. Photosyn. Res. 34: 95

Schulz, B., Banuett, F., Dahl, M., Schlesinger, R., Schäfer, W., Martin, T., Hershkowitz, I. and Kahmann, R. (1990) The b alleles of Ustilago maydis, whose combinations program pathogenic development, code for polypeptides containing a homeodomain related motif. Cell 60: 295-306

Book chapters

Schulz, B. (2002) From the workshop of the Molecular Biologist: Functional genomics research in plants (in German) Aus der Werkstatt des Molekulargenetikers: Funktionelle Genomuntersuchungen in Pflanzen. E. Beck (ed.) Faszination Lebenswissenschaften. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, pp 31-40

Schulz, B., Bennett, M.J., Dilkes, B.P., and Feldmann, K.A. (1995) T-DNA tagging in Arabidopsis thaliana: cloning by gene disruption, Plant Molecular Biology Manual (Gelvin, S.B., Schilperoort, R.A., Verma, D.P.S., eds.), Kluwer academic publishers, Dordrecht, NL, K1-K1

Frommer, W.B., Kühn, C., Hirner, B., Harms, K., Martin, T., Riesmeier, J.W. and Schulz, B. (1996) Sugar transport in higher plants. In: Membranes: Specialized Functions in Plants. (Smallwood M., Knox J.P. & Bowles D.J., eds.) bIOS Sci. Publ., Oxford, 319-335

Frommer, W.-B., Riesmeier, J. W., Kwart, M.,Hirner, B., Kühn, C., Martin, T., Hummel, S., Fischer, W. N., Harms, K., Wöhner, R.-V., Schulz, B. and Willmitzer, L. (1993) Sugar transport in higher plants, IBC Satellite Meeting, "Transport and role of organic carbon/nitrogen in higher plants", (Chino, T. und Lucas W. J., eds.), Atami, Japan, 1-7

Prillinger, H. J., Altenbuchner, J., Schulz, B., Dörfler, C., Forst, T., Laaser, G. and Stahl, U. (1989) Ustilago maydis isolated from homobasidiomycetes. Proceedings Applied Plant Molecular Biology, (Braunschweig Symposium Nov. 1988), pp. 408-425, Technische Universität Braunschweig

Patents

German Patent Office A.Z. 19907 598.A1 (Offenlegungsschrift (8/2000):
DNA-Sequenz kodierend ein FKBP-ähnliches Protein sowie Mutanten in Arabidopsis thaliana für dieses Gen.

International patent application: European Patent Office EP 1159425:
DNA sequence of a protein that is similar to FKBP.

International patent application: European Patent Office F 1401 EP:
Method for producing plants with an increased tolerance to drought stress and plants with an increased transpiration.