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Johan Memelink

Professor
Plant cell physiology
Leiden University
Netherlands

Professor Plant Sciences
Biography

I obtained my PhD at Leiden University in 1988 on gene expression studies in tobacco transformed with the cytokinin biosynthesis gene from Agrobacterium tumefaciens. After that I worked at the Leiden Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences first as a postdoc (1988 -1989) and later as a staff member leading research on the transcriptional regulation of terpenoid indole alkaloid biosynthesis in the medicinal plant Catharanthus roseus. In 1989 – 1990 I was a post-doctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology at The Rockefeller University (NY, USA) with financial aid from the North-Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In 1993 I visited the same lab as a Fulbright fellow. In 2005 I was appointed professor in Plant Cell Physiology. Currently I am participating in the SmartCell consortium, a large collaborative project funded by the EU 7th Framework Program.

Research Intrest

transcriptional regulation of terpenoid indole alkaloid biosynthesis in the medicinal plant Catharanthus roseus.

List of Publications
Geerlings A., Redondo F.J., Memelink J., Contin A., Heijden R. van der & Verpoorte R. (1999), Screening method for cDNAs encoding putative enzymes converting loganin into secologanin by a transgenic yeast culture, Biotechnology Letters 13: 605-608.
Zhou M. & Memelink J. (2016), Jasmonate-responsive transcription factors regulating plant secondary metabolism, BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES 34(4): 441-449.
Moerkercke A. van, Steensma P., Gariboldi I., Espoz J., Purnama P.C., Schweizer F., Miettinen K., Bossche R. van den, Clercq R. de, Memelink J. & Goossens A. (2016), The basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor BIS2 is essential for monoterpenoid indole alkaloid production in the medicinal plant Catharanthus roseus, PLANT JOURNAL 88(1): 3-12.
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