Education

Ph.D (Dr. rer. nat.) in Biology, Faculty of Biology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany, 2001

Current position

Research Fellow, Institute of General Botany, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany

Publications

1. Blatt, A., Bauch, M. E., Porschke, Y. and Lohr, M. (2015). A lycopene beta-cyclase/lycopene epsilon-cyclase/light-harvesting complex-fusion protein from the green alga Ostreococcus lucimarinus can be modified to produce alpha-carotene and beta-carotene at different ratios. Plant J 82(4): 582-595.
2. Chan, C. X., Blouin, N. A., Zhuang, Y., Zauner, S., Prochnik, S. E., Lindquist, E., Lin, S., Benning, C., Lohr, M., Yarish, C., Gantt, E., Grossman, A. R., Lu, S., Muller, K., J, W. S., Brawley, S. H. and Bhattacharya, D. (2012). Porphyra (Bangiophyceae) Transcriptomes Provide Insights Into Red Algal Development And Metabolism. J Phycol 48(6): 1328-1342.
3. Lohr, M., Schwender, J. and Polle, J. E. (2012). Isoprenoid biosynthesis in eukaryotic phototrophs: a spotlight on algae. Plant Sci 185-186: 9-22.
4. Lohr, M. (2011). Carotenoid metabolism in phytoplankton. In: Roy, S., Llewellyn, C., Egeland, E. S. and Johnsen, G. (Eds). Phytoplankton Pigments: Characterization, Chemotaxonomy and Applications in Oceanography. Cambridge University Press, 113-161.
5. Frommolt, R., Werner, S., Paulsen, H., Goss, R., Wilhelm, C., Zauner, S., Maier, U. G., Grossman, A. R., Bhattacharya, D. and Lohr, M. (2008). Ancient recruitment by chromists of green algal genes encoding enzymes for carotenoid biosynthesis. Mol Biol Evol 25(12): 2653-2667.
6. Lohr, M. (2008). Carotenoids. In: Stern, D. (Ed). The Chlamydomonas Sourcebook, 2nd. Ed., Vol. 2: Organellar and Metabolic Processes. Academic Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 799-817.
7. Lohr, M., Im, C. S. and Grossman, A. R. (2005). Genome-based examination of chlorophyll and carotenoid biosynthesis in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Plant Physiol 138(1): 490-515.