Life forms with a nervous system and an immune system can recall experiences of stress such as a past illness. This memory allows the organism to protect itself when facing the same event repeatedly – in the case of illness, for example, by developing antibodies. But do organisms that lack a nervous system, such as plants, fungi, or bacteria, also have some memory of stress? That is the topic now being pursued by ecologists, molecular biologists, and biochemists within CRC 973.

• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Monika Hilker
• Start: 2012
• Web: www.sfb973.de
• Partners: Freie Universität Berlin, Universität Potsdam, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie in Potsdam-Golm, Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzenbiochemie in Halle