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FRANK WELLMER - CURRICULUM VITAE
Smurfit Institute of Genetics
Trinity College Dublin
College Green
Dublin 2, Ireland
Phone: +353-1-896-3729
Fax: +353-1-679-8558
Email: [email protected]
www.tcd.ie/Genetics/wellmer-2/
PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of Birth: May 5, 1970
Nationality: German
Place of Birth: Aurich, Germany
ACADEMIC EDUCATION
December 1998
Ph.D. in Biology
1996-1998
Graduate Program “Molecular Mechanisms of Plant Differentiation”,
University of Freiburg (Germany)
November 1995
M.Sc. in Biology
11/1994 – 11/1995
Master’s Thesis, Department of Biophysics, University of Osnabrück
(Germany)
1990 – 1995
Undergraduate Education, University of Osnabrück (Germany)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
since 09/2006
Lecturer/Assistant Professor (tenured), Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
09/2005 – 08/2006
Senior Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology (USA)
10/1999 – 08/2005
Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology (USA)
01/1999 - 08/1999
Staff Member, University of Freiburg (Germany)
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PUBLICATIONS
RESEARCH PAPERS:
1. Schulenberg, B., Wellmer, F., Lill, H., Junge, W., and Engelbrecht, S. (1997) Crosslinking of the chloroplast F0F1-ATPase subunit  to  without effects on activity.  and 
are parts of the rotor. European Journal of Biochemistry 249, 134-141.
2. *Kircher, S., *Wellmer, F., Nick, P., Rügner, A., Schäfer, E., and Harter, K. (1999) Nuclear import of the parsley bZIP transcription factor CPRF2 is regulated by phytochrome
photoreceptors. Journal of Cell Biology 144, 201-211. *equal contribution
3. Wellmer, F., Kircher, S., Rügner, A., Frohnmeyer, H., Schäfer, E., and Harter, K. (1999)
Phosphorylation of the parsley bZIP transcription factor CPRF2 is regulated by light.
Journal of Biological Chemistry 274, 29476-29482.
4. Wellmer, F., Schäfer, E., and Harter, K. (2001) The DNA binding properties of the parsley bZIP transcription factor CPRF4a are regulated by light. Journal of Biological Chemistry 276, 6274-6279.
5. Rügner, A., Frohnmeyer, H., Näke, C., Wellmer, F., Kircher, S., Schäfer, E., and Harter,
K. (2001) Isolation and characterization of four novel parsley proteins that interact with
the transcriptional regulators CPRF1 and CPRF2. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 265,
964-976.
6. Yu, H., Ito, T., Wellmer, F., and Meyerowitz, E.M. (2004) Repression of AGAMOUSLIKE 24: a critical step in promoting flower development. Nature Genetics 36, 157-161.
7. Wellmer, F., Riechmann, J.L., Alves-Ferreira, M., and Meyerowitz, E.M. (2004) Genome-wide analysis of spatial gene expression in Arabidopsis flowers. Plant Cell 16,
1314-1326.
8. *Wagner, D., *Wellmer, F., Dilks, K., William, D., Smith, M.R., Kumar, P.P., Riechmann, J.L., Greenland, A.J., and Meyerowitz, E.M. (2004) Floral induction in tissue culture: a system for the analysis of LEAFY-dependent gene regulation. Plant Journal 39,
273-282. *equal contribution
9. Ito, T., Wellmer, F., Yu, H., Das, P., Ito, N., Alves-Ferreira, M., Riechmann, J.L., and
Meyerowitz, E.M. (2004) The homeotic protein AGAMOUS controls microsporogenesis
by regulation of SPOROCYTELESS. Nature 430, 356-360.
10. *Baker, C.C., *Sieber, P., Wellmer, F., and Meyerowitz, E.M. (2005) The early extra
petals1 mutant uncovers a role for microRNA miR164c in regulating petal number in Arabidopsis. Current Biology 15, 303-315. *equal contribution
11. Wellmer, F., Alves-Ferreira, M., Dubois, A., Riechmann, J.L., and Meyerowitz, E.M.
(2006) Whole-genome analysis of gene expression during early Arabidopsis flower development. PLoS Genetics 2, e117.
12. *Carlsson, J., *Lagercrantz, U., Sundström, J., Teixeira, R., Wellmer, F., Meyerowitz,
E.M., and Glimelius, K. (2007) Microarray analysis reveals altered expression of a large
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number of nuclear genes in developing cytoplasmic male sterile Brassica napus flowers.
Plant Journal 49, 452–462. *equal contribution
13. Sieber, P., Wellmer, F., Gheyselinck, J., Riechmann, J.L., and Meyerowitz, E.M. (2007)
Redundancy and specialization among plant microRNAs: role of the miR164 family in
developmental robustness. Development 134, 1051–1060.
14. Alves-Ferreira, M., Wellmer, F., Banhara, A., Kumar, V., Riechmann, J.L., and Meyerowitz, E.M. (2007) Global expression profiling applied to the analysis of Arabidopsis
stamen development. Plant Physiology 145, 747-762.
15. Das, P., Ito, T., Wellmer, F., Vernoux, T., Dedieu, T., Traas, J., and Meyerowitz, E.M.
(2009) Floral stem cell termination involves the direct regulation of AGAMOUS by
PERIANTHIA. Development 136, 1605-1611.
16. Graciet, E., Walter, F., O’Maoileidigh, D., Pollmann, S., Meyerowitz, E.M., Varshavsky,
A., and Wellmer, F. (2009) The N-end rule pathway controls multiple functions during
Arabidopsis shoot and leaf development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106, 13618-13623.
17. Graciet, E., Mesiti, F., and Wellmer, F. (2010) Structure and evolutionary conservation
of the plant N-end rule pathway. Plant Journal 61, 741-751.
18. Wuest, S.E., Vijverberg, K., Schmidt, A., Weiss, M., Gheyselinck, J., Lohr, M.,
Wellmer, F., Rahnenführer, J., von Mering, C., and Grossniklaus, U. (2010) Arabidopsis
female gametophyte gene expression map reveals similarities between plant and animal
gametes. Current Biology 20, 506-512.
19. *Kaufmann, K., *Wellmer, F., Muiño, J.M., Ferrier, T., Wuest, S.E., Kumar, V., Serrano-Mislata, A., Madueño, F., Krajewski, P., Meyerowitz, E.M., Angenent, G.C., and
Riechmann, J.L. (2010) Orchestration of floral initiation by APETALA1. Science 328,
85-89. *equal contribution
20. *Wuest, S.E., *O’Maoileidigh, D.S., Rae, L., Kwasniewska, K., Raganelli, A.,
Hanczaryk, K., Lohan, A.J., Loftus, B., Graciet, E., and Wellmer, F. (2012) Molecular
basis for the specification of floral organs by APETALA3 and PISTILLATA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA - accepted for publication.
*equal
contribution
REVIEWS, BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS:
1. Schäfer, E., Kircher, S., Gil, P., Harter, K., Kim, L., Wellmer, F., Kozma-Bognar, L., Adam, E., and Nagy, F. (2002) Intracellular localization of phytochromes. In: Signal transduction in plants: current advances. S.K. Sopory, R. Oelmüller, and S.C. Maheshwari
(eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York, pp. 19-24.
2. Wellmer, F. and Riechmann, J.L. (2005) Gene network analysis in plant development by
genomic technologies. International Journal of Developmental Biology 49, 745-759.
3. Graciet, E. and Wellmer, F. (2010) The plant N-end rule pathway: structure and functions. Trends in Plant Science 15, 447-453.
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4. Wellmer, F. and Riechmann, J.L. (2010) Gene networks controlling the initiation of flower development. Trends in Genetics 26, 519-527.
5. Wellmer, F. and Riechmann, J.L. eds. (2013) Flower Development: Methods and Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology. Springer, New York - in preparation
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