Prof. Dr. Julien Gronnier

Professorship

Cell Biology of Plants

Academic Career and Research Areas

Prof. Dr. Gronnier researches cell biology aspects of Plant immunity, development and evolution. His group uses multi-disciplinary approaches in genetics, biochemistry and live-cell imaging and super resolution microscopy to decipher fundamental aspects of cell signaling, with a particular interest on the spatial and temporal regulation of membrane-based molecular events.

After a PhD on Cell biology at the Laboratoire de Biogénèse Membranaire (LBM, CNRS), Prof. Dr. Gronnier joined the group of Prof. Dr. Cyril Zipfel at the Sainsbury Laboratory and at the University of Zürich for his postdoctoral reseach on the Plant immune system. In 2021, Prof. Dr. Julien Gronnier started his independent research group, the NanoSignaling Lab, at the Zentrum für Molecular Biologie der Planzen (ZMBP, Tübingen) and joined the TUM as Professor for Plant Cell Biology in 2024.

    Awards

    • EMBO Long-term Fellowship (2021)
    • Monique Garnier-Semancik award (2017)

    #Jaillais, Y., Bayer E., Bergmann D.C., […] #Gronnier J., (2024). Guidelines for naming and studying plasma membrane domains in plants. Nature Plants 10, 1172–1183.
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    Hurst C.H., Turnbull D., Xhelilaj K., Myles S., Pflughaupt R.L., Kopischke M., Davies P., Jones S., Robatzek S., Zipfel C., GronnierJ., and Hemsley P.A. (2023). S-acylation stabilizes ligand-induced receptor kinase complex formation during plant pattern-triggered immunesignalling. Current Biology 8: 1588-1596.e6.

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    #Gronnier J., Franck C.M., Stegmann M., DeFalco T.A., Cifuentes A.A., von Arx M., Dünser K., Lin W., Yang Z., Kleine-Vehn J., Ringli C., and #Zipfel C., (2022). Regulation of immune receptor kinase plasma membrane nanoscale organization by a plant peptide hormone and its receptors. eLife 11: e74162.
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    *Gronnier  J., *Perraki, A., Gouguet, P., Boudsocq, M., Deroubaix, A.F., Simon, V., German-Retana, S., Legrand, A., Habenstein, B., Zipfel, C., Bayer, E., Mongrand, S., and Germain, V. (2018). REM1.3's phospho-status defines its plasma membrane nanodomain organization and activity in restricting PVX cell-to-cell movement. PLoS Pathogens. 14:e1007378.
    *: equal contribution

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    Gronnier J., Crowet, J.M., Habenstein, B., Nasir, M.N., Bayle, V., Hosy, E., Platre, M.P., Gouguet, P., Raffaele, S., […] Bayer, E.M., Jaillais, Y., Deleu, M., Germain, V., Lins, L., and Mongrand, S. (2017). Structural basis for plant plasma membrane protein dynamics and organization into functional nanodomains. eLife 6: e26404.

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