Rainer Hedrich

Rainer Franz Hedrich (born April 1, 1957 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German biologist and biophysicist .

School and study

Hedrich attended elementary school in Mörfelden in the Groß-Gerau district from 1964 to 1967 . After primary school, he moved to the Prälat-Diehl-Gymnasium, Groß-Gerau, where he passed his Abitur in 1976.

In October 1976 he enrolled at the Technical University of Darmstadt in the field of biology . After completing his intermediate diploma, he moved to the University of Göttingen in 1978 , where he matriculated in the subjects of biology and chemistry . In 1981 he wrote his diploma thesis at the Plant Physiological Institute of the University of Göttingen, Raschke department, and passed his diploma .

Scientific work

In 1982 Hedrich began investigating his doctoral thesis in the Raschke group. He researched “the metabolism of guard cells in the light and in the dark” . He received his doctorate in May 1985 with the overall grade summa cum laude .

From 1985 to 1987 Rainer Hedrich worked as part of his post-doc at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry , Göttingen. He was part of Erwin Neher's research group on membrane biophysics . He carried out patch-clamp studies on the membranes of higher plants. Here he was the first researcher to be able to directly demonstrate that plant cells have ion channels . He identified a K ⁺ / Cl ^- ion channel in the vacuole membrane of beetroot cells ( Beta vulgaris subsp. Vulgaris var. Conditiva ).

After the post-doctoral period, Hedrich moved back to the Plant Physiological Institute at the University of Göttingen, where he was employed as an academic advisor until 1989 and later by being awarded the Gerhard Hess Prize and being accepted into the Gerhard Hess program was able to set up a separate junior research group for young scientists from the German Research Foundation (DFG). In 1990 Hedrich completed his habilitation in botany at the University of Göttingen. In 1991 he received a Heisenberg grant from the DFG.

Also in 1991 Rainer Hedrich was offered a professorship at the University of Hanover and took over the chair at the Institute for Biophysics. In 1996 he was offered the chair of molecular plant physiology and biophysics at the University of Würzburg . In 2010 he received the highly endowed sponsorship award from the European Research Council. The aim is to further research electrical phenomena in plants and their correlation with genetic studies. Hedrich would like to gain clues about the evolution of primitive nervous systems.

Honors and prizes

1984: Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize for Biological Membrane Research
1989: Gerhard Hess Award of the DFG
1999: Comenius Prize for Best University Didactics
2001: Körber Prize for European Science
2005: Admission to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
2010: Prize of the European Research Council (endowed with 2.5 million euros)

Web links

Literature by and about Rainer Hedrich in the catalog of the German National Library
Website of the University of Würzburg , Chair of Botany I (Rainer Hedrich), German, accessed on November 27, 2012.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Rainer Franz Hedrich: About the metabolism of guard cells in the light and in the dark. Univ., Diss., Göttingen 1985.

^ King Saud University ( Memento of August 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ): Distinguished Scientist Fellowship Program. Curriculum vita of Rainer Hedrich, English, accessed on April 14, 2011.

^ R. Hedrich, E. Neher: Cytoplasmic calcium regulates voltage-dependent ion channels in plant vacuoles. In: Nature. 329 1987, pp. 833-836.

↑ Rainer Hedrich: The role of ion channels and ion pumps in the salt transport of the cells of higher plants: Investigations into the molecular mechanism of ion transport through the membranes of higher plants with the help of the patch-clamp technique. Univ., Habil.-Schr., Göttingen 1990.

^ University of Würzburg, Science Information Service , press release: Top price for the biophysicist Rainer Hedrich , German, accessed on April 14, 2011.

↑ BIOCOM Projektmanagement (Ed.) ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : In profile Rainer Hedrich: Can plants feel? German, accessed April 14, 2011. @1@ 2

personal data
SURNAME	Hedrich, Rainer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hedrich, Rainer Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German biologist and biophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 1, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main

[diss-1] Rainer Franz Hedrich: About the metabolism of guard cells in the light and in the dark. Univ., Diss., Göttingen 1985.

[2] King Saud University ( Memento of August 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ): Distinguished Scientist Fellowship Program. Curriculum vita of Rainer Hedrich, English, accessed on April 14, 2011.

[3] R. Hedrich, E. Neher: Cytoplasmic calcium regulates voltage-dependent ion channels in plant vacuoles. In: Nature. 329 1987, pp. 833-836.

[4] Rainer Hedrich: The role of ion channels and ion pumps in the salt transport of the cells of higher plants: Investigations into the molecular mechanism of ion transport through the membranes of higher plants with the help of the patch-clamp technique. Univ., Habil.-Schr., Göttingen 1990.

[5] University of Würzburg, Science Information Service , press release: Top price for the biophysicist Rainer Hedrich , German, accessed on April 14, 2011.