The CRC 1208 warmly welcomes Prof. Toru Fujiwara from University Tokyo, Japan, as our Mercator Fellow in summer 2018.

Toru Fujiwara leads the Laboratory of Plant Nutrition and Fertilizers in the Department of Applied Biological Chemistry as a professor at the University of Tokyo.
His group is motivated to elucidate molecular genetics of plant nutrition, cell-to-cell movement of macromolecules and plant responses to nutritional conditions.

Plant nutrition is an important foundation of plant production and our life totally depends on plant production. Living organisms including plants have sophisticated mechanisms to acquire nutrients from environments and a number of biological processes are involved in the nutrient acquisition and utilization. The Laboratory of Plant Nutrition and Fertilizers study these processes for better understanding or the process and better production of crops/plants. Their field of study includes identification of nutrient transporters, molecular mechanisms of plant response to nutrient conditions, generation of nutrient-stress tolerant plants.

Toru Fujiwara joins the CRC 1208 in SS 2018 to push joint research projects and publications.
Additionally, he will give lectures and methodogical courses on his current research as well as his expertise as referee and editor of scientific journals.

The Collaborative Research Center 1208 looks forward to an exciting and productive cooperation!