Lehrstuhl für Biochemie und Physiologie der Pflanzen
Fakultät für Biologie W5-134
Universität Bielefeld
Universitätsstraße 25
33615 Bielefeld
Tel: 0521 106-5589
Fax: 0521 106-6039

e-mail: karl-josef.dietz@uni-bielefeld.de

Curriculum vitae:

Education and scientific carreer:

1977-1985: Study of Biology (Diplombiologie, Promotion) at the Julius-Maximilians-University of Wuerzburg (Prof. Dr. Ulrich Heber)

1983: Short term research stay at the ARC Institute for Photosynthesis (Prof. Dr. D.A. Walker), University of Sheffield, England

1985-87: Post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University, Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology (Prof. Dr. Lawrence Bogorad)

1986: Award of the "Unterfränkische Gedenkjahresstiftung für die Wissenschaft"

1988: Member and project leader of the special research initiative "Sonderforschungsbereich 176" on the "Molecular basis of signal transduction and transport at biomembranes"

1990: Habilitation at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Wuerzburg

1991: Short term stay at the Centre Physiologie Végétale of the Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France) with Prof. Dr. G. Marigo

1994: Member and project leader within Sonderforschungsbereich 251 der Bayerischen Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg mit dem Thema "Biochemistry, physiology and ecology of plant and animal productivity under stress"

1996: Short term stay at the Hitotsubashi University (Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan) with Prof. Dr. Tetsuro Mimura

1997: Professor für Stoffwechselphysiologie und Biochemie der Pflanzen (Faculty of Biology, University of Bielefeld)

1998/9: Member and project leader within the Sonderforschungsbereich 549 of the University of Bielefeld

2001: Coordinator of the Special Research Focus FOR 387 of the DFG "Redox control as central regulatory mechanism in organisms with oxygenic photosynthesis"

2002: Member and project leader within the Sonderforschungsbereich 613 'Physics of single molecule processes'

2002: Chairmen of the "Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology"-section of the German Society of Botany (Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft)

Teaching:

Basic and advanced courses in biochemistry, physiology, molecular biology and ecophysiology of plants, lectures on plant physiology, molecular biology and biotechnology ( see Lehre for contents, in German)

Research interests and literature

A. Reviews

B. Transmembrane transport
        V-ATPase - vacuolar membrane - proton pump - ion fluxes - amino acid transport

D. Adaptation to stress: Heavy metals, drought and salt stress and mineral nutrition

E. Apoplast

F. Cell- and tissue-specific expression of genes in plants

Recent (this topic has a major overlap with other subjects, only some representative papers are listed - recently we employ self-designed macro-cDNA arrays to analyse transcript abundance of chloroplast, mitochondrial and nuclear genes)

G. Regulation of metabolic pathways

Recent (this issue presently returns into the focus of part of our research activities):