Dr. Catherine Kistner Programme Director

Life Sciences 1: Molecular and Organismic Biology
E-mail: Catherine.Kistner@dfg.de Telephone: +49 (228) 885-2803 Telefax: +49 (228) 885-713320

Kennedyallee 40
53175 Bonn

Tasks

General Responsibilities
ERA-Net Coordinating Action in Plant Sciences (ERA-CAPS) / Green ERA-Hub (GEH)
Green Genetic Engineering and New Breeding Techniques
Support of DFG Statutory Bodies
Senate Commission on the Transformation of Agricultural and Food Systems

Scientific Areas of Responsibility

Main Contact
2.31-01 Soil Sciences
2.31-02 Plant Breeding and Plant Pathology
2.31-03 Plant Cultivation, Plant Nutrition, Agricultural Technology
2.31-06 Forestry
Deputy Contact
2.31-04 Ecology of Land Use
2.31-05 Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Policy, Agricultural Sociology
2.31-07 Animal Breeding, Animal Nutrition, Animal Husbandry
2.31-08 Veterinary Medical Science

Coordinated Programmes (scientific matters)

Graduiertenkolleg
2172 PRoTECT - Plant Responses To Eliminate Critical Threats
2300 Enrichment of European beech forests with conifers: impacts of functional traits on ecosystem functioning (EnriCo)
2654 Sustainable Food Systems
3050 Scale effects in the forest adaptation to climate change (FORSCALE)
SFB/Transregio
175 The Green Hub: Central Coordinator of Acclimation in Plants

Coordinated Programmes (procedural matters)

Forschungsgruppe
2337 Denitrification in Agricultural Soils: Integrated Control and Modelling at Various Scales (DASIM)
5095 Pollutant – Antibiotic Resistance – Pathogen Interactions in a Changing Wastewater Irrigation System
5315 FOREST FLOOR: Functioning, Dynamics, and Vulnerability in a Changing World
5375 Enhancing the structural diversity between patches for improving multidiversity and multifunctionality in production forests
5571 Using clonal oak phytometers to unravel acclimation and adaptation mechanisms of long-lived forest tree holobionts to ecological variations and climate change
5664 Agroforestry for sustainable multifunctional agriculture (FORMULA)
5820 Soil-plant hydraulics impacting transpiration and plant growth in response to drought [SOPHY]
5903 Sustainable Rurbanity - Resources, Society, and Regulatory Systems
Schwerpunktprogramm
2089 Rhizosphere Spatiotemporal Organisation - a Key to Rhizosphere Functions
2322 Systems ecology of soils – Energy Discharge Modulated by Microbiome and Boundary Conditions (SoilSystems)