Download Curriculum vitae – Dolf Weijers 2012

Curriculum vitae – Dolf Weijers
2012 - present
Full Professor in Biochemistry of Plant Development, Wageningen University, NL
2010-2012
Associate Professor, Wageningen University, NL
2008-2010
Assistant Professor, Wageningen University, NL
2006-2008
Junior group leader, Wageningen University, NL
2002-2005
(EMBO) Postdoctoral fellow, laboratory of Prof. Dr. G. Jürgens, University of
Tübingen, DE
1997-2002
PhD in Developmental Genetics, laboratory of Dr. R. Offringa, University of
Leiden, NL
1993-1997
Biochemistry/Biotechnology studies, Hogeschool Enschede, NL
Honors and awards
2013 – present
Editor in Chief, Plant Reproduction (Springer)
2011 – 2016
ERC Starting Grant
2010 – present
Faculty member, Faculty of 1000
2010
Elected member of “the Young Academy”, Royal Netherlands Academy of
Sciences
2006
Annual award of Netherlands Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
2006 – 2011
NWO VIDI Grant
2002 - 2004
EMBO Long-term fellowship
List of five most relevant publications (*corresponding author)
De Rybel, B., Möller, B., Yoshida, S., Grabowicz, I., Barbier de Reuille, P., Boeren, S., Smith, R.,
Borst, J.W., Weijers, D*. (2013). A bHLH complex controls embryonic vascular tissue
establishment and indeterminate growth in Arabidopsis. Dev. Cell, in press.
Rademacher, E.H., Lokerse, A.S., Schlereth, A.S., Llavata-Peris, C.I., Bayer, M., Kientz, M., FreireRios, A., Borst, J.W., Lukowitz, W., Jürgens, G., Weijers, D*. (2012). Different auxin response
machineries control distinct cell fates in the early plant embryo. Dev. Cell 22, 211-22.
Rademacher, E.H., Möller, B., Lokerse, A.S., Llavata-Peris, C.I., van den Berg, W. ,Weijers, D.*
(2011). A cellular expression map of the Arabidopsis AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR gene family.
Plant J. 68, 597-606.
Schlereth, A.S., Möller, B., Liu, W., Kientz., M., Flipse, J., Rademacher, E.H., Schmid, M., Jürgens,
G.*, Weijers, D.* (2010). MONOPTEROS controls embryonic root initiation by regulating a
mobile transcription factor. Nature 464, 913–6.
Weijers, D., Schlereth, A.S., Ehrismann, J.S., Schwank, G., Kientz, M., Jürgens, G.* (2006). Auxin
triggers transient local signaling for cell specification in Arabidopsis embryogenesis. Dev. Cell 10,
265-70.