Director of Department 3: Organelle Biology, Biotechnology and Molecular Ecophysiology Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology Expertise: Chloroplast Signaling and metabolic engineering Research interests: 1) Chloroplast Signaling 2) Plastid transformation Publications:  Chloroplast Translation: Structural and Functional Organization, Operational Control, and Regulation. Zoschke R, Bock R. Plant Cell. 2018 Apr;30(4):745-770. doi: 10.1105/tpc.18.00016. Epub 2018 Apr 2  Control of Retrograde Signaling by Rapid Turnover of GENOMES UNCOUPLED1. Wu GZ, Chalvin C, Hoelscher M, Meyer EH, Wu XN, Bock R. Plant Physiol. 2018 Mar;176(3):2472-2495. doi: 10.1104/pp.18.00009. Epub 2018 Jan 24.  Temporal Proteomics of Inducible RNAi Lines of Clp Protease Subunits Identifies Putative Protease Substrates. Moreno JC, Martínez-Jaime S, Schwartzmann J, Karcher D, Tillich M, Graf A, Bock R. Plant Physiol. 2018 Feb;176(2):1485-1508. doi: 10.1104/pp.17.01635. Epub 2017 Dec 11.  Loopholes for smuggling DNA into pollen. Ruf S, Bock R. Nat Plants. 2017 Dec;3(12):918-919. doi: 10.1038/s41477-017-0072-y.  Shine-Dalgarno Sequences Play an Essential Role in the Translation of Plastid mRNAs in Tobacco. Scharff LB, Ehrnthaler M, Janowski M, Childs LH, Hasse C, Gremmels J, Ruf S, Zoschke R, Bock R. Plant Cell. 2017 Dec;29(12):3085-3101. doi: 10.1105/tpc.17.00524. Epub 2017 Nov 13.