Professor Stephan Wenkel is a visiting researcher from Umeå Plant Science Centre at Umeå University in Sweden.

His research has a particular focus on microproteins. Microproteins are small regulatory proteins that can engage their targets in protein complexes, which can strongly influence their biological activity. His work aims to better understand the evolution of microproteins and to elucidate their biological function in case studies.

Group members from the Plant Development research group have moved to the Alkaloid Biosynthesis and Transport research group.

Since 02/2023 Professor Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, Sweden. 

09/2014 – 01/2023 Associate Professor, Copenhagen Plant Science Centre, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

07/2009 – 08/2014 Independent Research Group Leader (Plant Genetics), University of Tübingen, Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), Germany

06/2006 – 06/2009 Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Institution of Science, Stanford University, USA

01/2006 – 05/2006 Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany

03/2003 – 12/2005 PhD Student, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany

05/2002 – 02/2003 Research Assistant / Diploma Student, University of Würzburg, Department of Plant Biophysics, Germany