Professor Dr. Burkhard Becker

Address Universität zu Köln
Department für Biologie
Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften
Zülpicher Straße 47b
50674 Köln

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - Functional metatranscriptomics of Antarctic biological soil crust algae: Identification of key genes for the survival under the extreme conditions of Antarctica (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Origin of resistance against desiccation and cryoinjuries in biological soil crust microalgae of High Arctic (Research Grants)
  - Evolutionarily conserved links between regulating phosphate starvation and arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in plants (EvoSymPho) (Priority Programmes)
  - Change of growth type in Arctic lichen Foveolaria nivalis on Spitsbergen: a pilot study (Research Grants)
- Completed projects
  - Genome evolution within the Viridiplantae EST-analysis of a green flagellate (Mesostigma viride, Streptophyta) (Research Grants)
  - Dark survival strategies in benthic diatoms from polar waters (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Structure and function of the contractile vacuoles of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Chlorophyta) (Research Grants)
  - Biologische Bodenkrustenalgen in den Polarregionen - Biodiversität, genetische Diversität und Ökosystem-Elastizität unter Global Change Szenarien (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)