Graduations
Institution
Major/Area Degree
Year
University of Rostock Plant
Physiology/Biochemistry Dr. rer. nat. 2010
"magna cum laude"
University of Rostock Plant
Physiology/Biochemistry Diploma in biology 2005
Awards
1997 Winner of regional award "Jugend forscht" (Young Researchers)
competition in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
1997 Special award of the final federal competition of
"Jugend
forscht"in Berlin and participation at the "London International Youth
Forum"
2006 Winner of the "Reinhold von Sengbusch" prize in Dabringhausen
for an excellent oral presentation
2011 Winner of the habilitation scholarship of the University of
Rostock under the program, professors from the Federal Ministry for
Education and Research (BMBF)
Peer reviewed publications
1.
Engel N, van den Daele K,
Kolukisaoglu Ü, Morgenthal K, Weckwerth W, Pärnik T, Keerberg O, Bauwe H
(2007) Deletion of glycine decarboxylase in Arabidopsis is lethal under
non-photorespiratory conditions. Plant Physiology 144: 1328-1335, 'recommended reading' by Faculty
of 1000 A Top 100 Journal in Biology and Medicine, Top 10 in Plant Sciences.
2.
Engel N, Qu N, Bauwe H (2007) Relocation of photorespiratory
CO2 release from the mesophyll to the bundle sheath of a C3 plant.
Photosynthesis Research 91: 221 (conference abstract)
3.
Engel N, Eisenhut M, Qu N, Bauwe H (2008) Arabidopsis mutants with
strongly reduced levels of the T-protein subunit of glycine decarboxylase.
In Photosynthesis. Energy from the Sun: 14th International Conference of
Photosynthesis, Allen, J. F., Gantt, E., Golbeck, J. H., and Osmond, C.
B. (Eds) Springer, 819-822.
4.
Engel N, Abarzua S, Piechulla B, Nebe JB (2010) Metabolic and
adhesion related effects of common and potential phytoestrogens on mammary
breast cancer cell lines. EJCB (European Journal of Cell Biology), Vol.
89S1, Suppl. 60, ISSN 0171-9335 (conference abstract)
5.
Engel N, Chwalisz M, Duske K, Nebe JB (2010) Comparative
analysis of adhesion related components in mammary breast epithelial cells.
International Meeting of the German Society for Cell Biology on Actin
Dynamics Jena, September 15th-18th (conference abstract)
6.
Engel N, Oppermann C, Falodun A, Kragl U (2011) Proliferative
effects of traditional Nigerian medicinal plant extracts on human breast and
bone cancer cell lines. Accepted to the Journal of Ethnopharmacology.
7.
Engel N, Ewald R, Zrenner R, Hagemann M and Bauwe H (2011) The
presequence of Arabidopsis Ser hydroxymethyltransferase SHM2 selectively
prevents import into mesophyll mitochondria and hence complementation of the
shm1 allele. Submitted to Plant Physiology.
8.
Engel N, Lisec J, Willmitzer L, Piechulla B, Ruth W, Nebe JB
(2011) Metabolic profiling of breast cancer cells exposed to phytoestrogens:
new insights for therapeutic strategies. In preparation.
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