Christoph Rieck

Education and training

1996 – 2002	Studies of biological Sciences at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. Diploma-Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eckhart Schweizer
2002 – 2006	PhD Student in the Group of Prof. Dr. Eckhart Schweizer, Lehrstuhl für Biochemie, at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. PhD Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eckhart Schweizer

 

Professional positions

2006 – 2008	PostDoc in the Group of Prof. Dr. Uwe Sonnewald, Lehrstuhl für Biochemie, at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
2008 – 2016	Akademischer Rat in the Group of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kreis, Lehrstuhl für Pharmazeutische Biologie, at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
2016 –	Akademischer Oberrat in the Group of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kreis, Lehrstuhl für Pharmazeutische Biologie, at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

 

Publications

2021

• Tropper M., Höhn S., Wolf LS., Fritsch J., Kastner-Detter N., Rieck C., Munkert J., Meitinger N., Lanig H., Kreis W.:
  21-Hydroxypregnane 21-O-malonylation, a crucial step in cardenolide biosynthesis, can be achieved by substrate-promiscuous BAHD-type phenolic glucoside malonyltransferases from Arabidopsis thaliana and homolog proteins from Digitalis lanata
  In: Phytochemistry 187 (2021), Art.Nr.: 112710
  ISSN: 0031-9422
  DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2021.112710

2019

• Rieck C., Geiger D., Munkert J., Messerschmidt K., Petersen J., Strasser J., Meitinger N., Kreis W.:
  Biosynthetic approach to combine the first steps of cardenolide formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
  In: MicrobiologyOpen (2019), Art.Nr.: e925
  ISSN: 2045-8827
  DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.925

2003

Rössler H, Rieck C, Delong T, Hoja U, Schweizer E
Functional differentiation and selective inactivation of multiple Saccharomyces cerevisiae genes involved in very-long-chain fatty acid synthesis.
In: Mol Genet Genomics 269(2): 290 – 8
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-003-0836-0

2002

Rössler H, Rieck C, Schweizer E
YBR159p-encoded β-ketoacyl reductase is involved in one of three different yeast fatty acid elongation systems.
In: Chemistry and Physics of Lipids 118 (2002): 34

DOI: 10.1016/S0009-3084(02)00070-1