Group leader in the lab of Marcel Quint (Crop Physiology, MLU Halle)
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Research interests
Coming from a background in phytohormone biology, my main research interests reside in the elucidation of signal transduction pathways. Here, the role of transcriptional reprogramming and the spatio-temporal mechanisms that contribute to the specificity of transcription factors are of particular interest to me.
Projects
- Organ-specific regulation of plant thermomorphogenesis, with a special focus on (bHLH) transcription factor action
- Structure-function analysis of naturally occurring NAC transcription factor proteoforms
- Auxin regulation of root thermomorphogenesis
- Translational thermomorphogenesis research
Teaching
- Molecular Mechanisms in Signal transduction (Master Module, Winter Semester)
- Stressphysiology of plants (Master Module, Summer semester), including a practical course in data analysis in R
- Practical part in Biology of Crops (Bachelor Module, Summer Semester)
- Practical courses for Master and Bachelor students (see teaching for details)
- Supervision of Bachelor and Master thesis work
Publications
Janitza P, Zhu Z, Anwer MA, van Zanten M, Delker C (2024) A Guide to Quantify Arabidopsis Seedling Thermomorphogenesis at Single Timepoints and by Interval Monitoring.Methods Mol Biol 2795: 3-16.
Delker C, Quint M, Wigge PA (2022) Recent advances in understanding thermomorphogenesis signaling.Current Opinion in Plant Biology 68:102231
Bellstaedt J, Trenner J, Lippmann R, Poeschl Y, Zhang X, Friml J, Quint M, Delker C (2019) A mobile auxin signal connects temperature sensing in cotyledons with growth responses in hypocotyls. Plant Phys 180, 757-766.
Lippmann R, Babben S, Menger S, Delker C*, Quint M (2019) Development of wild and cultivated plants under global warming conditions. Curr Biol. 19, R1326-R1338.
Ibañez C, Delker C, Martinez C, Bürstenbinder C, Janitza P, Lippmann R, Ludwig W, Sun H, James GV, Klecker M, Grossjohann A, Schneeberger K, Prat S, Quint M (2018) Brassinosteroids dominate hormonal regulation of plant thermomorphogenesis via BZR1. Curr Biol. 28, 303-310.
Ibañez C, Poeschl Y, Peterson T, Bellstädt J, Denk K, Gogol-Döring A, Quint M, Delker C (2017) Ambient temperature and genotype differentially affect developmental and phenotypic plasticity in Arabidopsis thaliana. BMC Plant Biol17, 114.
Trenner J, Poeschl Y, Grau J, Gogol-Döring A, Quint M, Delker C (2017) Auxin-induced expression divergence between Arabidopsis species may originate within the TIR1/AFB–AUX/IAA–ARF module. J Exp Bot, 68, 539–552.
Quint M, Delker C**, Franklin KA, Wigge PA, Halliday KJ, van Zanten M (2016) Molecular and genetic control of plant thermomorphogenesis. Nat Plants 2, 15190.
Raschke A, Ibañez C, Ullrich KK, Anwer MU, Becker S, Glöckner A, Trenner J., Denk K., Saal B., Sun X, Ni M, Davis SJ, Delker C*, Quint M (2015). Natural Variants of ELF3 Affect Thermomorphogenesis by Transcriptionally Modulating PIF4-Dependent Auxin Responses. BMC Plant Biol 15, 197.
Delker C**, Sonntag L, Velikkakam James G, Janitza P, Ibañez C, Ziermann H, Peterson T, Denk K, Mull S, Ziegler J, Davis SJ, Schneeberger K, Quint M (2014) The DET1-COP1-HY5 pathway constitutes a multipurpose signaling module regulating plant photomorphogenesis and thermomorphogenesis. Cell Reports 9, 1983-1989.
Delker C.**, Quint M. (2011). Expression level polymorphisms: heritable traits shaping natural variation. Trends in Plant Science 16:481–488.
Delker C**, Pöschl Y, Raschke A, Ullrich K, Ettingshausen S, Hauptmann V, Grosse I, Quint M (2010) Natural variation of transcriptional auxin response networks in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell 22, 2184-2200.