Personal Profile Prof. Severin Sasso

• Since 2019

  Full Professor (W3) of Plant Physiology at the University of Leipzig (Germany),
  Member of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv, Leipzig; since 2020),
  President of the Wilhelm Pfeffer Foundation of the German Botanical Society (since 2019)

• Since 2014

  Faculty member of the Collaborative Research Centre Chemical Mediators in Complex Biosystems (SFB 1127) in Jena (Germany)

• 2017 - 2019

  Independent principal investigator (Akademischer Rat) at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena,
  Faculty member of the Jena School for Microbial Communication (JSMC) (2011 – 2019)

• 2011 - 2017

  Junior Professor (Assistant Professor) of Molecular Botany at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

• 2010 - 2011

  Postdoctoral fellow in the laboratories of Prof. Christian Hertweck at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (HKI) and Prof. Maria Mittag at the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena,
  Two-month stay (2010) with Prof. Arthur Grossman at the Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford CA (USA)

• 2007 - 2010

  Postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Alison Smith at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge (UK)

• 2002 - 2007

  Ph.D. student and postdoctoral fellow in the laboratories of Prof. Peter Kast and Prof. Donald Hilvert at the ETH Zürich (Switzerland)

• 1997 - 2002

  Undergraduate student in chemistry at the ETH Zürich

• Sasso S, Stibor H, Mittag M, Grossman AR (2018)
  From molecular manipulation of domesticated Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to survival in nature.
  eLife 7, e39233 (Übersichtsartikel)
• Heimerl N¹⁾, Hommel E¹⁾, Westermann M, Meichsner D, Lohr M, Hertweck C, Grossman AR, Mittag M, Sasso S (2018)
  A giant type I polyketide synthase participates in zygospore maturation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
  The Plant Journal 95:268–281
• Müller N, Wenzel S, Zou Y, Künzel S, Sasso S, Weiß D, Prager K, Grossman A, Kottke T, Mittag M (2017)
  A plant cryptochrome controls key features of the Chlamydomonas circadian clock and its life cycle.
  Plant Physiology 174:185–201
• Hirth M, Liverani S, Mahlow S, Bouget F-Y, Pohnert G, Sasso S (2017)
  Metabolic profiling identifies trehalose as an abundant and diurnally fluctuating metabolite in the microalga Ostreococcus tauri.
  Metabolomics 13:68
• Aiyar P, Schaeme D, García-Altares M, Flores DC, Dathe H, Hertweck C, Sasso S²⁾, Mittag M²⁾ (2017)
  Antagonistic bacteria disrupt calcium homeostasis and immobilize algal cells.
  Nat Commun 8:1–13
• Helliwell KE, Lawrence AD, Holzer A, Kudahl UJ, Sasso S, Kräutler B, Scanlan DJ, Warren MJ, Smith AG (2016)
  Cyanobacteria and eukaryotic algae use different chemical variants of vitamin B₁₂.
  Current Biology 26:999–1008
• Shelest E, Heimerl N, Fichtner M, Sasso S (2015)
  Multimodular type I polyketide synthases in algae evolve by module duplications and displacement of AT domains in trans.
  BMC Genomics 16:1015
• Hom EFY, Aiyar P, Schaeme D, Mittag M, Sasso S (2015)
  A chemical perspective on microalgal–microbial interactions.
  Trends in Plant Science 20:689–693
• Helliwell KE, Scaife MA, Sasso S, Araujo APU, Purton S, Smith AG (2014)
  Unraveling vitamin B₁₂-responsive gene regulation in algae. Plant Physiology 165:388–397
• Sasso S, Shelest E, Hoffmeister D (2014)
  Comments on the distribution and phylogeny of type I polyketide synthases and nonribosomal peptide synthetases in eukaryotes. PNAS 111:E3946–E3946 (Kommentar)
• Sasso S, Pohnert G, Lohr M, Mittag M, Hertweck C (2012)
  Microalgae in the postgenomic era: a blooming reservoir for new natural products. FEMS Microbiol Rev 36:761–785 (Nachtrag: FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 37, 284 (2013)) (Übersichtsartikel)
• Beel B, Prager K, Spexard M, Sasso S, Weiss D, Müller N, Heinnickel M, Dewez D, Ikoma D, Grossman AR, Kottke T, Mittag M (2012)
  A flavin binding cryptochrome photoreceptor responds to both blue and red light in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. The Plant Cell 24:2992–3008
• Kazamia E, Czesnick H, Nguyen TTV, Croft MT, Sherwood E, Sasso S, Hodson SJ, Warren MJ, Smith AG (2012)
  Mutualistic interactions between vitamin B₁₂-dependent algae and heterotrophic bacteria exhibit regulation. Environmental Microbiology 14:1466–1476
• Sasso S¹⁾, Ökvist M¹⁾,Roderer K, Gamper M, Codoni G, Krengel U, Kast P (2009)
  Structure and function of a complex between chorismate mutase and DAHP synthase: efficiency boost for the junior partner. The EMBO Journal 28:2128–2142
• Sasso S, Ramakrishnan C, Gamper M, Hilvert D, Kast P (2005)
  Characterization of the secreted chorismate mutase from the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The FEBS Journal 272:375–389

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