Dr. Ulschan Bathe

Junior Research Group ( Elite Network of Bavaria)

New tools for a sustainable plant production - Continuous directed evolution to increase CO2 fixation and biomass in crops
Associate Professorship of Biotechnology of horticultural crops

Academic Career and Research Areas

Dr. Bathe studied Biochemistry at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and did her PhD thesis at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry in Halle. She than did a postdoc at the same institute before she was awarded a Walter Benjamin fellowship to join the University of Florida. Supported by the Elite Network of Bavaria, she moved to TUM in 2024 to lead an international research group.

Dr. Bathe's research interest is engineering carbon availability in crop plants with a focus on alternative carbon fixation and cutting respiratory carbon loss. In addition, she conducts research on enzyme damage and enzyme damage repair. For that, she uses synthetic biology approaches e.g, directed evolution and genome editing.

    Awards

    • International research group leader, Elite Network of Bavaria (2024)
    • Walter Benjamin fellowship, DFG (2021)
    • Stipendium, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (2009)

    Y. Liu, D. Esposto, L. Mahdi, A. Porzel, P. Stark, H. Hussain, A. Scherr-Henning, S. Isfort, U. Bathe, I. F. Acosta, A. Zuccaro, G. U. Balcke, and A. F. Tissier (2024) Hordedane diterpenoid phytoalexins restrict Fusarium graminearum infection but enhance Bipolaris sorokiniana colonization of barley roots. Molecular Plant, 5;17(8):1307-1327.

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    M. Frey*, U. Bathe*, L. Meink a, G. U. Balcke, J. Schmidt, A. Frolov, A. Soboleva, A. Hassanin, M. D. Davari, O. Frank, V. Schlagbauer, C. Dawid, and A. Tissier (2024) Combinatorial biosynthesis in yeast leads to over 200 diterpenoids, Metabolic Engineering, Mar:82:193-200.

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    U. Bathe*, B. J. Leong*, K. Van Gelder*, G. G. Barbier, C. S, Henry, J. S. Amthor, and A. D. Hanson (2023) Respiratory energy demands and scope for demand expansion and destruction. Plant Physiol, 3;191(4):2093-2103.

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    J. D. García-García, K. van Gelder, J. Joshi, U. Bathe, B. J. Leong, S. D. Bruner, C. C. Liu, and A, D. Hanson (2022) Using continuous directed evolution to improve enzymes for plant applications. Plant Physiol, 188(2): :971-983.

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    U. Bathe*, B. J. Leong*, D. R. McCarty, C. S. Henry, P. E. Abraham, M. A. Wilson, and A. D. Hanson (2021) The Moderately (D)efficient Enzyme: Catalysis-Related Damage In Vivo and Its Repair. Biochemistry, 60(47):3555-3565.

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