Helmut Kindl

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Helmut Kindl (right) in conversation with Kurt Engeland (left) (Marburg, 1990)

Helmut Kindl (born on January 23, 1936 in Linz ) is an Austrian biochemist with a research focus on natural product chemistry and gene expression in plant physiology , who was professor in the chemistry department at the Philipps University in Marburg from 1971 to 2001 .

academic career

After graduating from high school , Helmut Kindl studied chemistry at the University of Vienna from 1954 to 1962 , among others with Gerhard Billek , which he completed in 1960 with a diploma and in 1962 with a doctorate . He then worked as a research assistant at Otto Hoffmann-Ostenhof in Vienna in the biochemical department of the Institute for Organic Chemistry there , which was upgraded to the Chair of Biochemistry in 1969 and the Institute of General Biochemistry in 1970, and carried out work on the biosynthesis of cyclitols in plants and fungi by.

From 1967 Kindl was a postdoctoral fellow with Edward W. Underhill at the Plant Biotechnology Institute of the National Research Council of Canada in Saskatoon , Canada , where he worked on the metabolism of aromatic amino acids in plants (focus: biosynthesis of glucosinolates and stilbenes ). After completing his habilitation in 1969, he was a professor of biochemistry at the University of Vienna.

From 1971 until his retirement in 2001, Helmut Kindl held a C4 professorship for biochemistry at the University of Marburg. The biochemistry department is part of the chemistry department, which was already located on the Lahnberge in Marburg during Helmut Kindl's active time. In 1978/79 and 1994/95 he was dean of the chemistry department. In 2001 he retired .

Research areas

Plant cell

Helmut Kindl carried out research in the field of plant physiology with a special focus on natural product chemistry of metabolites, the function of peroxisomes and the stress response in plant cells .

  • Classic natural product chemistry
    • Cyclitole (hexahydroxycyclohexane)
    • Glucosinolates and Stilbenes (aromatic amino acid derivatives)
    • Polyketides
    • Phytoalexins

  • Inositol, a cyclitol

  • Glucosinolate (mustard oil glycoside)

  • Basic structure of trans and cis styles

  • Signal transduction and gene activation (temporary gene expression in cells in suspension culture)
  • Peroxisomes
    • Biosynthesis of cellular macrostructures, e.g. peroxisomes
    • Breakdown of fatty acids in peroxisomes
    • Protein transport in peroxisomes
  • DFG project: protein transfer to lipid bodies (funding 1991 to 2000)
  • DFG project: Structure and function of fungal chaperones and their influence by phenolic soil constituents (funding from 1996 to 1999)
  • Induced resistance in plants

From 1971 to 2001, under the direction of Helmut Kindl, 62 diploma theses were written in the subject of biochemistry, and 60 doctoral students completed their doctorates, including Frauke Melchior (later: Professorship for Molecular Biology, Center for Molecular Biology Heidelberg ), Hans-Hermann Gerdes (Professorship for Biomedicine, University of Bergen , Norway and University of Heidelberg ), Ivo Feußner (Professorship in the Department of Plant Biochemistry, Albrecht von Haller Institute of the University of Göttingen ) and Kurt Engeland (Professorship for Molecular Oncology, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig ).

"Kindl Seminar"

In 1972, Helmut Kindl initiated a series of interdisciplinary, cross-departmental seminars in which recent work in biochemistry was discussed, which became known in the Marburg departments as "Kindl seminars". From this, two Marburg DFG graduate colleges developed: Enzyme chemistry (1990–2000, spokesman Prof. Rudolf Thauer ) and protein function at the atomic level (2001–2006; spokesman Prof. W. Buckel)

Publications

Dissertation and habilitation

Books

Publications in journals

During his career, Helmut Kindl and his colleagues published more than 160 articles in national and international journals.

Private

Helmut Kindl is married; the couple has three children.

literature

Web link

Individual references and annotations

  1. ↑ a b Marburger UniJournal, No. 27 (October 2006), UniLeute & Unibund; accessed on January 16, 2017.
  2. ↑ Manfred Hitzeroth: Five chemists shaped the department - farewell in the old auditorium for university professors Boche, Heintz, Hensel, Hoffmann and Kindl. Upper Hessian Press, November 17, 2001.
  3. ^ PubMed listing: Helmut Kindl ; accessed on January 20, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Kindl, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz