... form follows function

Who are we?

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The Schattat Lab exists since 2012. It is currently situated at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany) in the plant physiology department. Its start was funded by the EFRE Program in Saxony Anhalt (2 years). Since 2015 we use university core and third party funding to address basic plant cell biological and plant physiological questions. Since our arrival in Halle (Saale) we continued to work on plastid morphology (stromules) and expanded our research focus.

Science

Our current research topics include:
  • The use of effector proteins to study cell biological processes such as stromule formation and regulation (see Erickson et al., 2018).
  • Genetic screens for new genes involved in plastid positioning and shape.
  • Using classical cell biological approaches to study cellular organization and reorganization in response to stress.
  • Studying the process guttation focusing on biotechnological and physiological aspects.
  • Developing cell biological and bioinformatic tools to obtain quantitative cell biological data.

Teaching

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Beside research the lab is responsible for the "General Botany" teaching. The university programs which include our "General Botany" lecture and the "Basic Botany" lab course are:
  • biochemistry
  • food chemistry
  • bioinformatics
  • biology
  • biology teachers education program.

Since 2015 the lab works on ways to improve the "general botany" teaching here in Halle. Our approach aims at combining the long standing traditional teaching content and teaching material with modern methods and recent research findings. Our current efforts are aiming at:
  • turning the botanical course room into a "digital class room" (Zeiss AG) in which each student can take digital photographs of their microscope slides and images of each microscope can be shared with the whole class!
  • "students teach students" by creating online teaching material as part of an ASQ module during the Bachelors program! This way students can read in more depth about topics tucked in the lecture and the lab course.
  • turning old teaching posters (Lehrtafeln) into online teaching material.
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Impressum:
This web page is hosted by the Martin-Luther-University. It is made and maintained by the Schattat Lab, currently situated at the MLU.

Biologie/Pflanzenphysiologie/Organellen Form und Dynamik
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Biologicum
Weinbergweg 10
06120 Halle (Saale)
martin.schattat(a)pflanzephys.uni-halle.de
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Universitätsplatz 10
06108 Halle
Deutschland
Telefon: 0345 / 55 20
Fax: 0345 / 55 27 077
Internet: www.uni-halle.de
Umsatzsteuer-Identifikationsnummer: DE 811353703 gemäß § 27 a Umsatzsteuergesetz