Prof. Dr. Philip Wigge
Prof. Dr.
Philip Wigge
Großbeeren
033701 - 78 411
wigge@igzev.de
Head of PA FUNCT
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Berufliche Tätigkeiten
Sonstige Tätigkeiten
CURRICULUM VITAE
Date of Birth: 01.05.1973 Nationality: German
Spouse: Katja E. Jaeger Children: Sophia (2010); Jonas (2012), German
EMPLOYMENT
Professor (W3) Plant Adaptation, University of Potsdam and Head of Department, Leibniz IGZ, Grossbeeren (2018-present)
Research Group Leader (equivalent to Reader), Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University, Apr 2012-March 2019
Group Leader (awarded tenure 2010) JIC, Norwich, Jan 2005-Mar 2012
Junior Group Leader, MPI for Dev. Biology (D. Weigel), Tübingen, Dec 2002 Dec 2004
Postdoctoral Fellow, The Salk Institute (D. Weigel), US, Sep 2000-Dec 2002
EDUCATION
- University of Cambridge, MRC-LMB (J. Kilmartin), Ph.D, 1996-2000
- University of Oxford, Master of Biochemistry, Honours First Class, 1992-1996
AWARDS AND MEASURES OF ESTEEM
- Invited to extensive international conferences, including as plenary speaker at International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR) 2013, 2015, 2017. Cold Spring Harbor Asia (Japan) 2015 and 2016.
- Contributing Author to Taiz and Zeiger 5th and 6th Editions: “Plant Physiology”
- Kumar and Wigge (2010) featured in: Nature, Nature Chemical Biology, The Scientist, F1000 7th most highly rated paper, all categories. Selected as “Breakthrough of the Year” by Multnational Arabidopsis Steering Committee.
- First Ph.D student awarded the Beddington Medal for the best Ph.D in Developmental biology submitted in the UK in 2008.
- Awarded ERC New Investigator Grant
- Elected onto Faculty of 1000, 2006
- 2005 Paper selected as a “Breakthrough of the Year” (Science)
- Reviewer for: Science, Nature Genetics, Plant Cell, Plant Journal, Current Biology, Developmental Cell, Plant Physiology
- Awarded Wellcome Foundation International Travelling Postdoctoral Fellowship
- EMBO Long term Postdoctoral Travelling Fellowship (declined).
- Trinity College Oxford, President’s Prize for Finals results.
PUBLICATIONS AND METRICS
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=iuBGuyIAAAAJ&hl=en
An RNA thermoswitch regulates daytime growth in Arabidopsis
Chung,B.; Balcerowicz,M.; Antonio,M.; Jaeger,K.; Geng,F.; Krzysztof, F.; Marriott,P.; Brierley,I.; Firth,A. and Wigge, P.2020. An RNA thermoswitch regulates daytime growth in Arabidopsis. Nature Plants
DOI: 10.1038/s41477-020-0633-3
→AT-Hook Transcription Factors Restrict Petiole Growth by Antagonizing PIFs
Favero, D.S.; Kawamura, A.; Shibata, M.; Takebayashi, A.; Jung, J.H.; Suzuki, T.; Jaeger, K.E.; Ishida, T.; Iwase, A.; Wigge, P.A.; Neff, M.M.; Sugimoto, K. (2020). AT-Hook Transcription Factors Restrict Petiole Growth by Antagonizing PIFs. Curr Biol.;30(8):1454-1466.e6.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.02.017.
→Molecular mechanisms of Evening Complex activity in Arabidopsis
Silva, C.S.; Nayak, A.; Lai, X.; Hutin, S.; Hugouvieux, V.; Jung, J.H.; López-Vidriero, I.; Franco-Zorrilla, J.M.; Panigrahi, K.C.S.; Nanao, M.H.; Wigge, P.A.; Zubieta, C.(2020). Molecular mechanisms of Evening Complex activity in Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.; 117(12):6901-6909.
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1920972117.
→The Evening Complex Establishes Repressive Chromatin Domains Via H2A.Z Deposition
Tong, M.; Lee, K.; Ezer, D.; Cortijo, S.; Jung, J.; Charoensawan, V.; Mathew S. Box, M.S.; Jaeger, K.E.; Takahashi, N.; Mas, P.; Wigge, P.A.; Seo, P.J. (2020). The Evening Complex establishes repressive chromatin domains via H2A.Z deposition. Plant physiology 182 (1), 612-625;
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.19.00881
→Compartmentalized Synthesis of Triacylglycerol at the Inner Nuclear Membrane Regulates Nuclear Organization
Barbosa, A.D.; Lim, K.; Mari, M.; Edgar, J.R.; Gal, L.; Sterk, P.; Jenkins, B.J.; Koulman, A; Savage, D.B.; Schuldiner, M.; Reggiori, F.; Wigge, P.A.; Siniossoglou, S. 2019. Compartmentalized synthesis of Triacylglycerol at the inner nuclear membrane regulates nuclear organization. Developmental Cell 50(6), 755-766.
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2019.07.009
→LHY2 Integrates nightlength information to determine timing of poplar photoperiodic growth
Ramos-Sanchez, J.M.; Triozzi, P.M.; Alique, D.; Geng, F.; Gao, M.; Jaeger, K.E.; Wigge, P.A.; Allona, I.; Perales, M. 2019. LHY2 Integrates nightlength information to determine timing of poplar photoperiodic growth. Current Biology 29(14), 2402-2406. e4.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.06.003
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