Confirmed speaker
Markus Teige
Senior Lecturer at the University of Vienna
Markus Teige is Senior Lecturer at the University of Vienna and Research Group Leader of the Plant Signalling Group at the Faculty of Life Sciences. He studied Chemistry and obtained his PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Hannover. He works for more than 20 years in the field of stress acclimation in plants. His particular interest is to uncover how plants can deal with abiotic stress such as heat or drought and which strategies they have to survive. This is also the central research question in the EU Horizon 2020 project ADAPT studying stress acclimation in potato.
