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Britta Förster

Britta’s research focused on the post-translational regulation of cyanobacterial bicarbonate transporters and their introduction into higher plant chloroplasts.

Britta is an expert in photosynthesis including chlorophyll fluorescence, gas exchange using membrane inlet mass spectrometry, light stress, Cyanobacterial CO2 concentrating mechanism (Ci uptake systems) and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as model organism (physiology, biochemistry, genetics, chloroplast transformation).

She obtained a PhD from Humboldt University Berlin, Germany in 2001.

Britta was part of the Centre from 2014 to 2017