Henriette studied Biology at the University of Freiburg, where she completed her thesis under the guidance of Prof. Wolfgang Hess, focusing on the role of a regulatory RNA in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis. She then pursued a Master’s degree in Biochemistry and Biophysics, joining Prof. Oliver Einsle’s group to investigate the role of a maturation factor in the assembly of the nitrogenase iron protein.
Henriette continued her academic journey at Aarhus University in Denmark, where she joined Kasper R. Andersen’s group for her PhD. Here, she could follow her interest in biochemistry and structural biology while expanding her research to plant sciences. During her PhD, she investigated receptors involved in root-nodule symbiosis and plant immunity, utilizing both in planta studies and biochemical techniques, including crystallography. As part of her projects, she developed a technique to use small antibodies for studying receptor complex formation.
In February 2025, Henriette joined our lab as a Postdoctoral Researcher.
Publications
Simonsen BW*, Rübsam H*, Kolte MV, Larsen MM, Krönauer C, Gysel K, Laursen M, Feng F, Kaya G, Oldroyd GED, Stougaard J, Fort S, Radutoiu S, Andersen KR.
The Medicago truncatula LYR4 intracellular domain serves as a scaffold in immunity signaling independent of its phosphorylation activity
pre-print deposited at: bioRxiv; https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.23.619817
*These authors contributed equally.
Tsitsikli M, Simonsen BW, Larsen MM, Andersen CG, Gysel K, Lironi D, Krönauer C, Rübsam H, Luu TB, Hansen SB, Kaya G, Stougaard J, Andersen KR, Radutoiu S (2024)
Two residues reprogram immunity receptor kinases to signal in nitrogen-fixing symbiosis
pre-print deposited at: biorxiv; https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.22.609144
Hansen SB, Lu TB, Gysel K, Lironi D, Krönauer C, Rübsam H, Jensen IB, Tsitsikli M, Birkefeldt TG, Trgovcevic A, Stougaard J, Radutoiu S, Andersen KR (2024)
A conserved juxtamembrane motif in plant NFR5 receptors is essential for root nodule symbiosis
PNAS; 121(46): e2405671121
Rübsam H*, Krönauer C*, Abel NB, Ji H, Lironi D, Hansen SB, Nadzieja M, Kolte MV, Abel D, de Jong N, Madsen LH, Liu H, Stougaard J, Radutoiu S, and Andersen KR (2023)
Nanobody-driven signaling reveals the core receptor complex in root nodule symbiosis
Science; 379 (6629): 272-277
*These authors contributed equally.
Kelly S, Hansen SB, Rübsam H, Saake P, Pedersen EB, Gysel K, Madland E, Wu S, Wawra S, Reid D, Sullivan JT, Blahovska Z, Vinther M, Muszynski A, Azadi P, Thygesen MB, Aachmann FL, Ronson CW, Zuccaro A, Andersen KR, Radutoiu S, and Stougaard J (2023)
A Lotus japonicus glycan receptor kinase facilitates intracellular accommodation of arbuscular mycorrhiza and symbiotic rhizobia
PLoS Biology; 21(5): e3002127
Gysel K, Laursen M, Thygesen MB, Lironi D, Bozsoki Z, Hjuler CT, Maolanon NN, Cheng J, Bjørk PK, Vinther M, Madsen LH, Rübsam H, Muszynski A, Ghodrati A, Azadi P, Sullivan JT, Ronson CW, Jensen KJ, Blaise M, Radutoiu S, Stougaard J, and Andersen KR (2021)
Kinetic proofreading of lipochitooligosaccharides determines signal activation of symbiotic plant receptors
PNAS; 118(44): e2111031118
Irmisch S, Rübsam H, Jancsik S, Yuen MMS, Madilao L, and Bohlmann J (2019)
Flavonol biosynthesis genes and their use in a synthetic biology approach to engineering the plant antidiabetic metabolite montbretin A
Plant Physiology; 180 (3): 1277-1290
Rübsam H, Kirsch F, Reiman V, Erban A, Kopka J, Hagemann M, Hess WR, and Klähn S (2018)
The iron-stress activated RNA1 (IsaR1) coordinates osmotic acclimation and iron starvation responses in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
Environmental Microbiology; 20 (8): 2757-2768