Dr. Katja Richert-Pöggeler

Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics

Contact

Address
Julius Kühn-Institut
Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics
Messeweg 11/12
38104 Braunschweig

Tasks

Head of electron microscopy
Ultra-structural analyses of host-pathogen interactions
Virus diagnostics in crop plants and quality control of reference material • Research on viruses in ornamental plants
Studies on pararetroviruses and lateral DNA transfer
Focus on virus diversity as determined by abiotic and biotic agents
Current projects: o Tools for quality improvement in breeding and propagating garlic comprising cultivation as well as virus diagnostics. (BMEL/BLE)

Caulimoviridae Study Group of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV)
Gesellschaft für Genetik
Verband Biologie, Biowissenschaften und Biomedizin e. V., VBIO
American Society for Virology
American Phytopathological Society
Reviewer for:
Annals of Botany, Archives Virology, European Journal of Plant Pathology, Journal of Phytopathology, Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection, Scientific reports, Virus Disease, Virus Genes, Virus Research and Viruses

Teaching:

Plant virology at University of Kassel Since WS
2013: Teaching “Introduction of Plant Virology” with lectures, seminars in Kassel and a practical course in Braunschweig
2005: “Methods in molecular biology to analyse transgenic plants”, in frame of Swiss-Indo Collaboration for Biotechnology (ISCB) at the University of Madurai, India