CURRICULUM VITAE, Thomas Boller
University address
Botanisches Institut
Hebelstrasse 1
CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 267 2320
Fax +41 61 267 2330
E-Mail: thomas.boller@unibas.ch
Webpage: http://plantbiology.unibas.ch/people/boller/boller.htm

Private address

Im Thomasgarten 40
CH-4104 Oberwil
Tel. +41 61 403 04 24
PERSONAL

Date of Birth: December 10, 1949
Place of Birth: Frauenfeld, Switzerland
Citizenship: Swiss (City of Zurich)
Family: Married, four children
Languages: Native language: German, fluent in English and in French.

UNIVERSITY TRAINING
1968 - 1977 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich: Department of Natural Sciences, Section Biology. Fields of Specialization: Cell biology, plant biochemistry, and plant physiology. 1974: Diploma, with distinction. 1977: PhD, with distinction.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2007 - now Department Head, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Switzerland
1998 - 2000 Vice-Rector of Research, University of Basel, Switzerland
1997 - 2007 Member, Swiss National Research Council
1995 - 2002 Co-ordinator of the Integrated Programme "Biodiversity" of the Swiss Priority Project Environment and head of its Management and Coordination Office "MCO Biodiversity"
1993 - now Ordentlicher Professor (= Full Professor) in Botany, Botanical Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland
1987 - 2004 Part-time position as Senior Group Leader at Friedrich-Miescher-Institute, Basel.
1986 - 1993 Ausserordentlicher Professor (= Associate Professor) in Plant Physiology, Botanical Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland
1984 - 1986 Vollamtlicher Dozent (Lecturer with tenure) in Plant Physiology
1981 - 1984 Privatdozent (= Lecturer) in Botany, University of Basel
1979 - 1981 Assistant (= Instructor) in Plant Physiology, University of Basel, Switzerland; initially under Prof. J.J. Oertli; since fall 1979, when Prof. Oertli left, in own responsibility.
1977 - 1978 Postdoctoral Research Associate, MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (U.S.A.)

Publications Boller
Thomas Boller
Publications 2005 - 2009
(December 2009)
Altenbach, D., Nüesch, E., Ritsema, T., Boller, T., and Wiemken, A. (2005). Mutational analysis of the active center of plant fructosyltransferases: Festuca 1-SST and barley 6-SFT. Febs Letters 579, 4647-4653.
Boller, T. (2005). Peptide signalling in plant development and self/non-self perception. Current Opinion in Cell Biology 17, 116-122.
Elfstrand, M., Feddermann, N., Ineichen, K., Nagaraj, V.J., Wiemken, A., Boller, T., and Salzer, P. (2005). Ectopic expression of the mycorrhiza-specific chitinase gene Mtchit 3-3 in Medicago truncatula root-organ cultures stimulates spore germination of glomalean fungi. New Phytologist 167, 557-570.
Ludwig, A.A., Saitoh, H., Felix, G., Freymark, G., Miersch, O., Wasternack, C., Boller, T., Jones, J.D.G., and Romeis, T. (2005). Ethylene-mediated cross-talk between calcium-dependent protein kinase and MAPK signaling controls stress responses in plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 102, 10736-10741.
Nagaraj, V.J., Galati, V., Lüscher, M., Boller, T., and Wiemken, A. (2005). Cloning and functional characterization of a cDNA encoding barley soluble acid invertase (HvINV1). Plant Science 168, 249-258.
Oehl, F., Sieverding, E., Ineichen, K., Ris, E.A., Boller, T., and Wiemken, A. (2005). Community structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi at different soil depths in extensively and intensively managed agroecosystems. New Phytologist 165, 273-283.
Randall, T.A., Dwyer, R.A., Huitema, E., Beyer, K., Cvitanich, C., Kelkar, H., Fong, A., Gates, K., Roberts, S., Yatzkan, E., et al. (2005). Large-scale gene discovery in the oomycete Phytophthora infestans reveals likely components of phytopathogenicity shared with true fungi. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 18, 229-243.
Thuerig, B., Felix, G., Binder, A., Boller, T., and Tamm, L. (2005). An extract of Penicillium chrysogenum elicits early defense-related responses and induces resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana independently of known signalling pathways. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 67, 180-193.
Chinchilla, D., Bauer, Z., Regenass, M., Boller, T., and Felix, G. (2006). The Arabidopsis receptor kinase FLS2 binds flg22 and determines the specificity of flagellin perception. Plant Cell 18, 465-476.
Paszkowski, U., Jakovleva, L., and Boller, T. (2006). Maize mutants affected at distinct stages of the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. Plant Journal 47, 165-173.
Ritsema, T., Hernandez, L., Verhaar, A., Altenbach, D., Boller, T., Wiemken, A., and Smeekens, S. (2006). Developing fructan-synthesizing capability in a plant invertase via mutations in the sucrose-binding box. Plant Journal 48, 228-237.
Robatzek, S., Chinchilla, D., and Boller, T. (2006). Ligand-induced endocytosis of the pattern recognition receptor FLS2 in Arabidopsis. Genes & Development 20, 537-542.
Thuerig, B., Binder, A., Boller, T., Guyer, U., Jimenez, S., Rentsch, C., and Tamm, L. (2006). An aqueous extract of the dry mycelium of Penicillium chrysogenum induces resistance in several crops under controlled and field conditions. European Journal of Plant Pathology 114, 185-197.

van der Heijden, M.G.A., Streitwolf-Engel, R., Riedl, R., Siegrist, S., Neudecker, A., Ineichen, K., Boller, T., Wiemken, A., and Sanders, I.R. (2006). The mycorrhizal contribution to plant productivity, plant nutrition and soil structure in experimental grassland. New Phytologist 172, 739-752.
Wiemken, V., and Boller, T. (2006). Delayed succession from alpine grassland to savannah with upright pine: Limitation by ectomycorrhiza formation? Forest Ecology and Management 237, 492-502.
Zipfel, C., Kunze, G., Chinchilla, D., Caniard, A., Jones, J.D.G., Boller, T., and Felix, G. (2006). Perception of the bacterial PAMP EF-Tu by the receptor EFR restricts Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Cell 125, 749-760.
Chinchilla, D., Boller, T., and Robatzek, S. (2007). Flagellin signalling in plant immunity. Current Topics in Innate Immunity 598, 358-371.
Chinchilla, D., Zipfel, C., Robatzek, S., Kemmerling, B., Nürnberger, T., Jones, J.D.G., Felix, G., and Boller, T. (2007). A flagellin-induced complex of the receptor FLS2 and BAK1 initiates plant defence. Nature 448, 497-500.
Drissner, D., Kunze, G., Callewaert, N., Gehrig, P., Tamasloukht, M., Boller, T., Felix, G., Amrhein, N., and Bucher, M. (2007). Lyso-phosphatidylcholine is a signal in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. Science 318, 265-268.
Robatzek, S., Bittel, P., Chinchilla, D., Kochner, P., Felix, G., Shiu, S.H., and Boller, T. (2007). Molecular identification and characterization of the tomato flagellin receptor LeFLS2, an orthologue of Arabidopsis FLS2 exhibiting characteristically different perception specificities. Plant Molecular Biology 64, 539-547.
Aslam, S.N., Newman, M.A., Erbs, G., Morrissey, K.L., Chinchilla, D., Boller, T., Jensen, T.T., De Castro, C., Ierano, T., Molinaro, A., et al. (2008). Bacterial polysaccharides suppress induced innate immunity by calcium chelation. Current Biology 18, 1078-1083.
Boller, T. (2008). Stabbing in the BAK - An original target for avirulence genes of plant pathogens. Cell Host & Microbe 4, 5-7.
Feddermann, N., Boller, T., Salzer, P., Elfstrand, S., Wiemken, A., and Elfstrand, M. (2008). Medicago truncatula shows distinct patterns of mycorrhiza-related gene expression after inoculation with three different arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Planta 227, 671-680.
Goehre, V., Spallek, T., Haeweker, H., Mersmann, S., Mentzel, T., Boller, T., de Torres, M., Mansfield, J.W., and Robatzek, S. (2008). Plant pattern-recognition receptor FLS2 is directed for degradation by the bacterial ubiquitin ligase AvrPtoB. Current Biology 18, 1824-1832.
Mathimaran, N., Falquet, L., Ineichen, K., Picard, C., Redecker, D., Boller, T., and Wiemken, A. (2008). Microsatellites for disentangling underground networks: Strain-specific identification of Glomus intraradices, an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus. Fungal Genetics and Biology 45, 812-817.
Mathimaran, N., Falquet, L., Ineichen, K., Picard, C., Redecker, D., Wiemken, A., and Boller, T. (2008). Unexpected vagaries of microsatellite loci in Glomus intraradices: length polymorphisms are rarely caused by variation in repeat number only. New Phytologist 180, 568-570.
Merkouropoulos, G., Andreasson, E., Hess, D., Boller, T., and Peck, S.C. (2008). An Arabidopsis protein phosphorylated in response to microbial elicitation, AtPHOS32, is a substrate of MAP kinases 3 and 6. Journal of Biological Chemistry 283, 10493-10499.

Palerizuela, J., Ferrol, N., Boller, T., Azcon-Aguilar, C., and Oehl, F. (2008). Otospora bareai, a new fungal species in the Glomeromycetes from a dolomitic IF shrub land in Sierra de Baza National Park (Granada, Spain). Mycologia 100, 296-305.
Vazquez, F., Blevins, T., Ailhas, J., Boller, T., and Meins, F. (2008). Evolution of Arabidopsis MIR genes generates novel microRNA classes. Nucleic Acids Research 36, 6429-6438.
Altenbach, D., Rudino-Pinera, E., Olvera, C., Boller, T., Wiemken, A., and Ritsema, T. (2009). An acceptor-substrate binding site determining glycosyl transfer emerges from mutant analysis of a plant vacuolar invertase and a fructosyltransferase. Plant Molecular Biology 69, 47-56.
Aslam, S.N., Erbs, G., Morrissey, K.L., Newman, M.A., Chinchilla, D., Boller, T., Molinaro, A., Jackson, R.W., and Cooper, R.M. (2009). Microbe-associated molecular pattern (MAMP) signatures, synergy, size and charge: influences on perception or mobility and host defence responses. Molecular Plant Pathology 10, 375-387.
Boller, T., and Felix, G. (2009). A Renaissance of Elicitors: Perception of Microbe-Associated Molecular Patterns and Danger Signals by Pattern-Recognition Receptors. Annual Review of Plant Biology 60, 379-406.
Boller, T., and He, S.Y. (2009). Innate Immunity in Plants: An Arms Race Between Pattern Recognition Receptors in Plants and Effectors in Microbial Pathogens. Science 324, 742-744.
Hildermann, I., Thommen, A., Dubois, D., Boller, T., Wiemken, A., and Mader, P. (2009). Yield and baking quality of winter wheat cultivars in different farming systems of the DOK long-term trials. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 89, 2477-2491.
Hildermann, I., Thommen, A., Dubois, D., Boller, T., Wiemken, A., and Maeder, P. (2009). Yield and baking quality of winter wheat cultivars in different farming systems of the DOK long-term trials. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 89, 2477-2491.
Lu, X., Tintor, N., Mentzel, T., Kombrink, E., Boller, T., Robatzek, S., Schulze-Lefert, P., and Saijo, Y. (2009). Uncoupling of sustained MAMP receptor signaling from early outputs in an Arabidopsis endoplasmic reticulum glucosidase II allele. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106, 22522-22527.
Oehl, F., Sieverding, E., Ineichen, K., Mader, P., Wiemken, A., and Boller, T. (2009). Distinct sporulation dynamics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities from different agroecosystems in long-term microcosms. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment 134, 257-268.
Ritsema, T., Brodmann, D., Diks, S.H., Bos, C.L., Nagaraj, V., Pieterse, C.M.J., Boller, T., Wiemken, A., and Peppelenbosch, M.P. (2009). Are small GTPases signal hubs in sugar-mediated induction of fructan biosynthesis? PLoS One 4, e6605.