Heribert Hirt - Curriculum Vitae

 

Personal Data

Date of Birth 06. January 1956 Heribert Hirt
Place of Birth Kachan / Iran  
Nationality Austrian  

Education

  
1967 - 1975 Johannes Kepler Gymnasium Reutlingen, Germany  
1976 - 1978 Study of Biochemistry, Univ. of Cape Town South Africa  
1978 B.Sc.(Distinction)  
1979 - 1981 Study of Biochemistry, Univ. of Vienna, Austria  
1981 - 1983 Diploma thesis, Inst. of Biochemistry, Vienna
Topic: Characterization of Microtubule-Associated Proteins		  
1983 Mag. rer. nat. (Univ. of Vienna)  
1984 - 1987 PhD thesis, Inst. of Biochemistry, Vienna
Topic: Isolation and Characterization of the Human Growth Hormone Gene Locus		  

Scientific Career
1987 Post-doctoral fellow, Inst. of Biochemistry, Vienna
Topic: Investigations on the Effects of Cd on Gene Expression in tobacco
1988 Post-doctoral fellow, Dept. Microbiology, Oxford, GB
Topic: Complementation of Schizosaccharomyces pombe
Mutants by Expression of Plant Genes
1991 Assist. Prof. at Inst. of Microbiol. and Genetics, Univ. of Vienna
1994 Habilitation in Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences
University of Vienna
1995 Sabattical term, Dept. of Mol. Biol., Wageningen, NL
Topic: Nod-Factor Signalling and Cell Cycle Regulation
1997 Assoc. Prof. at Inst. of Microbiol. and Genetics
University of Vienna
1999 - 2001 Vice-chair of Institute of Microbiology and Genetics
2002 - 2004 Vice Director of Gregor-Mendel-Institute of Plant Molecular Biology
Austrian Academy of Sciences
2002 - 2003 Dean of graduate studies of the international PhD program
of the Vienna Biocenter
2006 - 2007 Head of Dept. of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Vienna
2008 Director of the URGV Plant Genomics Research Unit, Paris, France

Awards
1988        EMBO Fellowship
1993 Award of the Austrian Society of Biochemistry
2001 Wittgenstein Prize
more information: (Wittgenstein-Club) ext
2006 Member of the Wolfgang Pauli Institute ext
2008 Distinguished EMBO Member

Editorial Activities
1997 Editorial board member of the Journal of Experimental Botany
2000 - 2003 Coeditor of Protoplasma
2002 - Coeditor of Topics in Current Genetics
2003 - Coeditor of Plant and Cell Physiology
2005 - Coeditor of Plant Physiology
2005 - Coeditor of Molecular Genetics and Genomics
2006 - Coeditor Molecular Plant
2006 - Editorial Board Member   The Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists ext

Affiliations
2002 - 2006 Committee member of MASC (Multi-National Arabidopsis Steering Committee) ext
2002 - 2005 Executive board member of Austrian Society of Genetics and Gene Technology ÖGGGT ext
2005 - Scientific Advisory Board Member of Göttingen Center of Molecular Biosciences ext
2005 - 2007 President of the Austrian Society of Genetics and Genetic Engineering ÖGGGT ext

Other Activities
2001 - 2004 Coordinator of EU Program on "Cross talk and integration of stress signal transduction in plants"
2001 Organizer of Plant Protein Phosphorylation Meeting Vienna, 12-15 September 2001
2002 - Member of Multi-National Arabidopsis Steering Committee
2002 - Executive board member of ÖGGGT (Austrian Society of Genetics and Gene Technology)
2004 - Member of the Safety Commission for Genetically Modified Organisms of the Austrian Government
2004 Organizer of "Genomics of Arabidopsis as a Model Plant", Vienna, 15-17 April 2004
2005 Scientific Advisory Board Member of Göttingen Centre of Molecular Biosciences
2005 Organizer of International Botanical Congress Vienna 18-21 July 2005
2005 Organizer of "Advancing the Genomics Frontier", Neuchatel, 24-27 August 2005
2006 President of ÖGGGT (Austrian Society of Genetics and Gene Technology)
2006 Organizer of Keystone Conference on "Abiotic stress in plants", Copper Mountain, April 8-13, USA
2007 Organizer of Gordon Conference on "Temperature stress in plants", Ventura Harbour, January 31-February 5, USA

Research interests

Signal transduction of abiotic and biotic stress

Last or corresponding author of five most relevant publications during last five years

  1. Ouaked et al. (2003) A MAPK pathway mediates ethylene signaling in plants. EMBO J. 22, 1282-1288.
  2. Teige et al. (2004) The MKK2 pathway mediates cold and salt stress signaling in Arabdiopsis. Mol. Cell 15, 141-152.
  3. Rentel et al. (2004) OXI1 kinase is necessary for oxidative burst-mediated signalling in Arabidopsis. Nature 427, 858-861.
  4. Djamei et al. (2007) Trojan horse strategy in Agrobacterium transformation by abusing MAPK defence signalling. Science, 318, 453-456.
  5. van Bentem et al. (2008) Site-specific phosphorylation profiling of Arabidopsis proteins by mass spectrometry and peptide chip analysis. J. Prot. Res. 7, 2458-2470.

Patents

Meskiene, I., Jonak, C., and Hirt, H. (2000)
Regulation of mitogen-activated protein kinase
(MAPK). R37248 (A 1880/2000)

Jonak, C., and Hirt, H. (2001)
Protein with Kinase Activity. R38340