CRC 973 - Priming and Memory of Organismic Responses to Stress

The CRC 973 ties together research expertise and supports currently active collaborations of the following groups located in the southwest of Berlin and Potsdam, Germany. Several working groups of the Institute of Biology, FU Berlin, working groups at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biology of the University of Potsdam, and two groups of the Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam-Golm.

The goal of PrimeDB is to collect all project-relevant experimental data, store them and to make them broadly available to the data-generating researchers, consortium members and the global scientific community. Captured data types will include all experimental metadata, experimental protocols, molecular profiling, ecological and phenotypical data. Facilities will be developed to allow structured data downloads and exploratory statistical data views as well as integrative analyses with third-party datasets.

CRC 973 will place special research emphasis on the temporal and spatial aspects of the priming process. We intend to investigate (i) which factors determine the temporal course of priming and the persistence of memory and which ones regulate “forgetting” of information, i.e. resetting the primed state to the non-primed one, and (ii) how priming information is spatially transmitted within a plant from seeds, meristems or fully developed tissue to later developing tissue.