Staff at EMBL

Dr. Marcus Heisler

Group Leader
Heisler Group

EMBL Heidelberg, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany

Biography

PhD 2000, Monash University, Australia.
Postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology.
Senior Research Associate at the California Institute of Technology 2007-2009.
Group leader at EMBL since 2009.
ERC Investigator.

Publications

Live-imaging of plant development: latest approaches. Sappl, P.G. & Heisler, M.G. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 2013 Feb;16(1):33-40. doi: 10.1016/j.pbi.2012.10.006. Epub2012 Nov 26. PubMed

Integrated genetic and computation methods for in planta cytometry. Federici, F., Dupuy, L., Laplaze, L., Heisler, M. & Haseloff, J. Nat Methods. 2012 Apr 1. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.1940. PubMed

Cytokinin signaling as a positional cue for patterning the apical-basal axis of the growing Arabidopsis shoot meristem. Chickarmane, V.S., Gordon, S.P., Tarr, P.T., Heisler, M.G. & Meyerowitz, E.M. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Mar 6;109(10):4002-7. Epub 2012 Feb 15. PubMed

Alignment between PIN1 polarity and microtubule orientation in the shoot apical meristem reveals a tight coupling between morphogenesis and auxin transport. Heisler, M.G.*, Hamant, O.*, Krupinski, P.*, Uyttewaal, M., Ohno, C., Jonsson, H., Traas, J. & Meyerowitz, E.M. PLoS Biol. 2010 Oct 19;8(10):e1000516.
*equal contribution PubMed

Developmental patterning by mechanical signals in Arabidopsis. Hamant*, O., Heisler*, M.G., Jonsson*, H., Krupinski, P., Uyttewaal, M., Bokov, P., Corson, F., Sahlin, P., Boudaoud, A., Meyerowitz, E.M., Couder, Y. & Traas, J. Science. 2008 Dec 12;322(5908):1650-5.
*equal contribution PubMed

Pattern formation during de novo assembly of the Arabidopsis shoot meristem. Gordon, S.P., Heisler, M.G., Reddy, G.V., Ohno, C., Das, P. & Meyerowitz, E.M. Development. 2007 Oct;134(19):3539-48. PubMed

Antagonistic regulation of PIN phosphorylation by PP2A and PINOID directs auxin flux. Michniewicz, M., Zago, M.K., Abas, L., Weijers, D., Schweighofer, A., Meskiene, I., Heisler, M.G., Ohno, C., Zhang, J., Huang, F., Schwab, R., Weigel, D., Meyerowitz, E.M., Luschnig, C., Offringa, R. & Friml, J. Cell. 2007 Sep 21;130(6):1044-56. PubMed

Modelling meristem development in plants. Heisler, M.G. & Jonsson, H. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 2007 Feb;10(1):92-7. Epub 2006 Nov 30. PubMed

An auxin-driven polarized transport model for phyllotaxis. Jonsson*, H., Heisler*, M.G., Shapiro, B.E., Meyerowitz, E.M. & Mjolsness, E. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Jan 31;103(5):1633-8. Epub 2006 Jan 13. PubMed

In situ hybridization for mRNA detection in Arabidopsis tissue sections. Brewer, P.B., Heisler, M.G., Hejatko, J., Friml, J. & Benkova, E. Nat Protoc. 2006;1(3):1462-7. PubMed

Patterns of auxin transport and gene expression during primordium development revealed by live imaging of the Arabidopsis inflorescence meristem. Heisler, M.G., Ohno, C., Das, P., Sieber, P., Reddy, G.V., Long, J.A. & Meyerowitz, E.M. Curr Biol. 2005 Nov 8;15(21):1899-911. PubMed

Real-time lineage analysis reveals oriented cell divisions associated with morphogenesis at the shoot apex of Arabidopsis thaliana. Reddy, G.V., Heisler, M.G., Ehrhardt, D.W. & Meyerowitz, E.M. Development. 2004 Sep;131(17):4225-37. Epub 2004 Jul 27. PubMed

The Arabidopsis JAGGED gene encodes a zinc finger protein that promotes leaf tissue development. Ohno, C.K., Reddy, G.V., Heisler, M.G. & Meyerowitz, E.M. Development. 2004 Mar;131(5):1111-22. PubMed

SPATULA, a gene that controls development of carpel margin tissues in Arabidopsis, encodes a bHLH protein. Heisler, M.G., Atkinson, A., Bylstra, Y.H., Walsh, R. & Smyth, D.R. Development. 2001 Apr;128(7):1089-98. PubMed