Dr. Hannes Vogler
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Plant cell growth has been studied in detail using physiological, biochemical and genetic approaches. Data on the mechanical aspects of cell expansion, however, are rather sparse and mainly qualitative. For a better understanding of the biophysical properties of cell growth it is important to gain quantitative information about the cell wall, a rigid structure whose mechanical properties have to be modified to allow cell expansion. We use lily (Lilium longiflorum) and Arabidopsis pollen tubes as model-systems for tip growing cells in order to test a micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)-based approach that allows to specifically measure mechanical cell wall properties under different physiological conditions. The data will be incorporated into mathematical growth models, which can be tested and refined by inducing similar changes in silico.
MEMS, Arabidopsis, lily, pollen tube, cell wall, turgor
| 2000 - 2003 | PhD thesis Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Berne |
| 1998 - 1999 | Diploma thesis Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Berne |
| 2006 - 2008 | Postdoctoral researcher in Prof. David Baulcombe laboratory The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich and Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge "Plant Argonautes" |
| 2003 - 2006 | Postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Manfred Heinlein laboratory Botanical Institute, University of Basel "RNA-transport in plants Involvement of Tobacco Mosaic Virus movement protein in silencing suppression" |
| 2006 - 2008 | SNF fellowship for advanced researchers |
Mecchia MA, Rövekamp M, Giraldo-Fonseca A, Meier D, Gadient P, Vogler H, Limacher D, Bowman JL, Grossniklaus U. (2022) The single Marchantia polymorpha FERONIA homolog reveals an ancestral role in regulating cellular expansion and integrity. Development 149(19): dev200580.
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Vogler H, Santos-Fernandez G, Mecchia MA, Grossniklaus U. (2019) To preserve or to destroy, that is the question: the role of the cell wall integrity pathway in pollen tube growth. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 52:131-139.
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Fabrice TN, Vogler H, Draeger C, Munglani G, Gupta S, Herger AG, Knox P, Grossniklaus U, Ringli C. (2018) LRX proteins play a crucial role in pollen grain and pollen tube cell wall development. Plant Physiol 176(3):1981-1992.
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Hedhly A, Vogler H, Eichenberger C, Grossniklaus U. (2018) Whole-mount clearing and staining of Arabidopsis flower organs and siliques. JoVE (134):e56441.
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Hu C, Munglani G, Vogler H, Ndinyanka Fabrice T, Shamsudhin N, Wittel FK, Ringli C, Grossniklaus U, Herrmann HJ, Nelson BJ. (2017) Characterization of size-dependent mechanical properties of tip-growing cells using a lab-on-chip device. Lab Chip 17(1):82-90.
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Hu C, Vogler H, Aellen M, Shamsudhin N, Jang B, Burri JT, Läubli N, Grossniklaus U, Pané S, Nelson BJ. (2017) High precision, localized proton gradients and fluxes generated by a microelectrode device induce differential growth behaviors of pollen tubes. Lab Chip 17(4):671-680.
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Hu C, Zhang Q, Meyer T, Vogler H, Burri JT, Shamsudhin N, Grossniklaus U, Nelson BJ. (2017) In vivo tracking and measurement of pollen tube vesicle motion. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA):3575-3580.
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Vogler H, Grossniklaus U, Hedhly A (2017) An Introduction to Male Germline Development. In Plant Germline Development (Schmidt A, ed). New York, NY: Springer New York, pp. 3-15.
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Vogler H, Shamsudhin N, Nelson BJ, Grossniklaus U (2017) Measuring cytomechanical forces on growing pollen tubes. In Pollen tip growth (Obermeyer G, Feijó J, eds). Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 65-85.
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Burri JT, Hu C, Shamsudhin N, Wang X, Vogler H, Grossniklaus U, Nelson BJ. (2016) Dual-axis Cellular Force Microscope for mechanical characterization of living plant cells. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) 942-947.
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Hedhly A, Vogler H, Schmid MW, Pazmino D, Gagliardini V, Santelia D, Grossniklaus U. (2016) Starch Turnover and Metabolism during Flower and Early Embryo Development. Plant Physiol 172(4):2388-2402.
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Shamsudhin N, Atakan HB, Laubli N, Vogler H, Hu C, Sebastian A, Grossniklaus U, Nelson BJ. (2016) Probing the micromechanics of the fastest growing plant cell — The pollen tube. 2016 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)
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Shamsudhin N, Laeubli N, Atakan HB, Vogler H, Hu C, Haeberle W, Sebastian A, Grossniklaus U, Nelson BJ. (2016) Massively parallelized pollen tube guidance and mechanical measurements on a lab-on-a-chip platform. PLoS One 11(12):e0168138.
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Vogler H, Martinez-Bernardini A, Grossniklaus U. (2016) Maybe she’s not the boss: Male-female crosstalk during sexual plant reproduction. Genome Biol 17(1):96.
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Felekis D, Vogler H, Grossniklaus U, Nelson BJ (2015) Microrobotic tools for plant biology. In Micro- and Nanomanipulation Tools (Sun Y, Liu X, eds). Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, pp. 283-306.
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Felekis D, Vogler H, Mecja G, Muntwyler S, Nestorova A, Huang T, Sakar MS, Grossniklaus U, Nelson BJ. (2015) Real-time automated characterization of 3D morphology and mechanics of developing plant cells. The International Journal of Robotics Research 34(8):1136-1146.
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Vogler H, Felekis D, Nelson BJ, Grossniklaus U. (2015) Measuring the mechanical properties of plant cell walls. Plants 4(2):167-182.
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Felekis D, Vogler H, Mecja G, Muntwyler S, Sakar MS, Grossniklaus U, Nelson BJ. (2014) High-throughput analysis of the morphology and mechanics of tip growing cells using a microrobotic platform. 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014) 3955-3960.
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Ngo QA, Vogler H, Lituiev DS, Nestorova A, Grossniklaus U. (2014) A Calcium Dialog Mediated by the FERONIA Signal Transduction Pathway Controls Plant Sperm Delivery. Dev Cell 29:491-500.
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Vogler H, Draeger C, Weber A, Felekis D, Eichenberger C, Routier-Kierzkowska AL, Boisson-Dernier A, Ringli C, Nelson BJ, Smith RS, Grossniklaus U. (2013) The pollen tube: a soft shell with a hard core. Plant J 73:617-627.
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Felekis D, Muntwyler S, Vogler H, Beyeler F, Grossniklaus U, Nelson BJ. (2011) Quantifying growth mechanics of living, growing plant cells in situ using microrobotics. Micro Nano Lett 6:311-316.
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Huang L, Jones AM, Searle I, Patel K, Vogler H, Hubner NC, Baulcombe DC. (2009) An atypical RNA polymerase involved in RNA silencing shares small subunits with RNA polymerase II. Nat Struct Mol Biol 16:91-93.
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Vogler H, Kwon MO, Dang V, Sambade A, Fasler M, Ashby J, Heinlein M. (2008) Tobacco mosaic virus movement protein enhances the spread of RNA silencing. PLoS Pathog. 4:e1000038.
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Vogler H, Akbergenov R, Shivaprasad PV, Dang V, Fasler M, Kwon MO, Zhanybekova S, Hohn T, Heinlein M. (2007) Modification of small RNAs associated with suppression of RNA silencing by tobamovirus replicase protein. J Virol. 8:10379-88.
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Vogler H, Caderas D, Mandel T, Kuhlemeier C. (2003) Domains of expansin gene expression define growth regions in the shoot apex of tomato. Plant Molecular Biology 53:267-272.
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Vogler H, Kuhlemeier C. (2003) Simple hormones but complex signalling. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 6:51-56.
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Caderas D, Muster M, Vogler H, Mandel T, Rose JKC, McQueen-Mason S, Kuhlemeier C. (2000) Limited correlation between expansin gene expression and elongation growth rate. Plant Physiol 123:1399-1413.
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