Nils Rugen

Dr. Nils Rugen is a Researcher at the Department of Plant Molecular Biology and Plant Proteomics within the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Leibniz University Hannover. His primary affiliation is with the Institute of Plant Genetics, where he specializes in mitochondrial biology and proteomics, particularly focusing on organellar RNA editing and plant stress responses.

Education: Completed his doctoral studies (Dr. rer. nat.) at Leibniz University Hannover, as evidenced by his 2019 dissertation on plant mitochondrial proteomics.

Research Interests: Extensive focus on plant mitochondrial proteomics, RNA editing mechanisms, and the structural and functional analysis of respiratory complexes. His work integrates proteomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics to study plant development, stress responses, and energy metabolism. Notable areas include cryo-EM structural analysis of mitochondrial supercomplexes and the development of novel proteomic methodologies like Mito-AP for plant mitochondria analysis.

Publications: Recent work emphasizes multi-omic datasets in Brassica napus seeds (2025), functional roles of UMP kinases in Arabidopsis (2024), and structural biology of mitochondrial supercomplexes (2023). His contributions span plant-microbe interactions (e.g., mistletoe studies) and bacterial regulatory mechanisms in Pseudomonas aeruginosa (2016).

Advising & Grants: No explicit student advisees listed, but his research group actively collaborates on projects involving proteomic technology development and mitochondrial dysfunction studies.

Labs/Teams: Lead researcher in the 'Organellar RNA Editing' group, developing tools like the Proteome Explorer software and curating genomic resources such as the Viscum album Gene Space database.