| Group leader |
 Dr. Renier van der HoornGroup leader Plant Chemetics Tel: +49 221 5062 256 (lab) Tel: +49 221 5062 245 (office) Fax: +49 221 5062 207 E-mail: hoorn[a]mpiz-koeln.mpg.de Renier van der Hoorn was born in Leiden in 1971 and was fascinated by plant biology from early childhood. He studied chemistry at Leiden University, focused on plant molecular biology and biochemistry. After his graduation in 1996, he started his PhD in Molecular Phytopathology (Wageningen University, Prof. Dr. Pierre de Wit), where he worked on the tomato Cf resistance proteins. He continued working on Cf proteins in Wageningen as a postdoc, and soon started his own research program, by introducing and applying activity-based protein profiling in plants. To further develop the technology he joined the phosphoproteomics group of Dr. Scott Peck for one year (Sainsbury lab, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK). He initiated the Plant Chemetics lab in October 2005 at the Max Planck Institutes of Cologne and Dortmund as part of the Max Planck Chemical Genomics Centre. |