Meret Huber
Principal Investigator
- Address: iomE, Johann-Joachim-Becher-Weg 7, Nat-Med-Building (room 2.236), 55128 Mainz
- Phone: 0049 (0)6131 39 302 60
"Students in this RTG can push the frontiers in evolutionary biology, as they learn how to use molecular tools to test central hypotheses in evolutionary biology."
Work Experience:
- Since 2023: Associate professor, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz
- 2023: Assistant professor, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz
- 2018 –2022: Junior reserach group leader, University of Münster, Germany
- 2016: Postdoctoral researcher, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany
Project: Genomic mutation rate in duckweeds.
Education:
- 2012 -2015: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany
- 2010 -2012: Master of Science in Systematics & Evolution, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- 2006 - 2009: Bachelor of Science in Biology University of Zurich
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Huber M (2024)
Latex - a potential plant defense against microbes Trends in Microbiology, 32(3):224-227 -
Böttner L, Malacrino A, Schulze Gronover C, van Deenden N, Müller B, Xu S, Gershenzon J, Prüfer D, Huber M (2023)
Natural rubber reduces herbivory and alters the microbiome below ground New Phytologist, 4:1475-1489 -
Huber M, Gablenz S, Höfer M (2021)
Transgenerational non-genetic inheritance has fitness costs and benefits under recurring stress in the clonal duckweed Spirodela polyrhiza Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288(1955):20211269 -
Huber M, Roder T, Gablenz S, Irmisch S, Riedel A, Fricke J, Rahfeld P, Reichelt M, Paetz C, Liechti N, Hu L, Bont Z, Meng Y, Huang W, Robert CAM, Gershenzon J, Erb M (2021)
A beta-glucosidase of an insect herbivore determines both toxicity and deterrence of a dandelion defense metabolite eLife, 10:e68642 -
Böttner L, Grabe V, Gablenz S, Böhme N, Appenroth KJ, Gershenzon J, Huber M (2020)
Differential localization of flavonoid glucosides in the duckweed Spirodela polyrhiza implicates different functions under abiotic stress Plant, Cell & Environment, 44(3):900-914 -
Xu S, Stapley J, Gablenz S, Boyer J, Appenroth KJ, Sree KS, Gershenzon J, Widmer A, Huber M (2019)
Low genetic variation is associated with low mutation rate in the giant duckweed. Nature Communications, 10:1243 -
Agrawal AA, Hastings AP, Fines DM, Bogdanowicz S, Huber M (2018)
Insect herbivory and plant adaptation in an early successional community Evolution, 72(05):1184–1185