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Prof. Dr. Susann Wicke, Dipl.-Biol.

Current affiliations

  • Professorship of Evolution of Plant Biotic Interactions (Prof. Wicke)

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • Evolution and functional adaptation of parasitic plants
  • Genetic causes and consequences of lifestyle changes in plants
  • Comparative parasitic plant/host interactions
  • Land plant evolution (evolution and systematics of early diverging land plants, molecular evolution of early vascular plants, symbiotic relationships of early land plant lineages)

Academic Education

05/2007 - 03/2012Dissertation at the University of Vienna, Austria. Dissertation and defense with distinction (summa cum laude).
10/2002 - 04/2007Studies of biology at the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. Majors: Botany, genetics, and microbiology.

Work Experience

since 2019Professor (W1) for Plant Evolutionary Biology
since 2017Research Group Leader
04/2020 - 04/2024Professor for Plant Evolution and Biodiversity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Direktor - Späth-Arboretum
2012 - 2016Postdoctoral scholar at the University of Muenster
2007 - 2012Pre-doctoral researcher at the University of Vienna, Austria.
2005 - 2007Student research assistent in the Plant Phylogenetics & Phylogenomics Research group at the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.

Functions and Memberships

since 12/2017Scientific Advisory Board - "Renewed Strategies for Striga control", – International Alliance of African, European, Asian scientists for Striga research coordination and weed control
2017 - 2019Deputy chair: “Rectorate’s Committee for Equal Opportunity Measures”, WWU Münster
12/2013 - 12/2015Member of the Commission for research, young scientists, and structure at the WWU Muenster

Appointments

2019Offer to a Professorship for Evolutionary Biology (W1) , University of Münster (accepted)
2018Offer to a Professorship for Higher Plants, University of Graz (rejected)
2017Offer to a Assistant-Professorship for Speciation Genomics, Uppsala University (rejected)
2016Offer to a Assistant-Professorship for Evolutionary Biology, University of Wales (rejected)

Publications

Brun, G; Billard, E; Hýlová, A; Montiel, G; Plačková, L; Doležal, K; Puech-Pagès, V; Simier, P; Wicke, S; Spichal, L; Delavault, P; Pouvreau, J-B (2025)
In: Plant and Cell Physiology, pcaf032
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Ruaud, S; Nötzold, SI; Waller, M; Galbier, F; Mousavi, SS; Charran, M; Zeeman, S; Bailly, A; Baroux, C; Hippler, M; Wicke, S; Szövényi, P (2025)
In: New Phytologist, Early View
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Kösters LM, Wiechers S, Lyko P, Müller KF, Wicke S (2021)
In: Plant Physiology, 185
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Li F-W, Nishiyama T, Waller M, Frangedakis, E, Keller J, Li Z, Fernandez-Pozo N, Barker MS, Bennett T, Blázquez MA, Cheng S, Cuming AC, de Vries J, de Vries S, Delaux P-M, Diop IS, Harrison CJ, Hauser D, Hernández-García J, Kirbis A, Meeks JC, Monte I, Mutte SK, Neubauer A, Quandt D, Robison T, Shimamura M, Rensing SA, Villarreal JC, Weijers D, Wicke S, Wong GK-S, Sakakibara K, Szövényi P (2020)
In: Nature plants, 6
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Charoenwattanasatien R, Zinzius K, Scholz M, Wicke S, Tanaka H, Brandenburg JS, Ikegami T, Matsumoto T, Oda T, Sato M, Hippler M, Kurisu G (2020)
In: Journal of Biological Chemistry, 295(1)
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
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Projects

Duration: 01/06/2020 - 31/05/2023 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Priority Programme
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted outside University of Münster
Duration: 01/04/2017 - 31/03/2020
Funded by: DFG Emmy Noether Programme
Type of project: Individual project
Duration: 01/01/2017 - 31/12/2017
Funded by: German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development
Type of project: Individual project
Duration: 01/01/2016 - 31/12/2017
Funded by: German Academic Exchange Service
Type of project: Individual project
Duration: 01/12/2015 - 30/11/2016
Funded by: DFG - Initiation of International Collaboration
Type of project: Individual project

Prizes

Preis zur Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses 2019
Awarded by: Universitätsgesellschaft Münster e.V.
Award given to: Wicke, Susann
Announced at: 09/07/2019 | Date of awarding: 15/07/2019
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction