Assistant Professor
Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory
Schnabel, E., Bashyal, S., Corbett, C., Kassaw, T., Nowak, S., Rosales-García, R.A., Noorai, R.E., Müller, L.M., Frugoli, J. The Defective in Autoregulation (DAR) gene of Medicago truncatula encodes a protein involved in regulating nodulation and arbuscular mycorrhiza. (2024) BMC Plant Biology. 24(1):766. DOI: 10.1186/s12870-024-05479-6
Chaulagain, D., Schnabel, E., Lin, E.X., Garcia, R.R., Noorai, R.E., Müller, L.M., Frugoli, J.A. TML1 AND TML2 SYNERGISTICALLY REGULATE NODULATION BUT NOT ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA IN MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA. (2023) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2023.12.07.570674
Bashyal, S., Gautam, C.K., Müller, L.M. CLAVATA signaling in plant-environment interactions. (2023) Plant Physiology. DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiad591
Roy, S., Müller, L.M. A rulebook for peptide control of legume-microbe endosymbioses. (2022) Trends in Plant Science. 27(9):870-889. DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2022.02.002
Zhang, S., Daniels, D.A., Ivanov, S., Jurgensen, L., Müller, L.M., Versaw, W.K., Harrison, M.J. A genetically encoded biosensor reveals spatiotemporal variation in cellular phosphate content in Brachypodium distachyon mycorrhizal roots. (2022) New Phytol. 234(5):1817-1831. DOI: 10.1111/nph.18081
Müller, L.M. Underground connections: arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi influence on interspecific plant-plant interactions. (2021) Plant Physiology. 187(3):1270-1272. DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiab397
Maria Müller, L. Mapping membranes: lipid imaging reveals phosphorus-dependent membrane dynamics in Medicago truncatula nodules. (2021) Plant Physiology. 185(4):1473-1475. DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiab039
Müller, L.M., Campos-Soriano, L., Levesque-Tremblay, V., Bravo, A., Daniels, D.A., Pathak, S., Park, H.J., Harrison, M.J. Constitutive Overexpression of Leads to an Increase in Arbuscule Density in . (2020) Plant Physiology. 184(3):1263-1272. DOI: 10.1104/pp.20.00997
Müller, L.M. An Evolutionary Perspective on LysM Receptors Reveals Conserved Mechanisms for Microbial Signal Perception. (2020) Plant Physiology. 184(2):562-563. DOI: 10.1104/pp.20.01160
Müller, L.M. Timing Is Everything: Regulates Meristem Phase Change in Barley. (2020) Plant Physiology. 183(3):816-817. DOI: 10.1104/pp.20.00648
Müller, L.M., Flokova, K., Schnabel, E., Sun, X., Fei, Z., Frugoli, J., Bouwmeester, H.J., Harrison, M.J. A CLE-SUNN module regulates strigolactone content and fungal colonization in arbuscular mycorrhiza. (2019) Nature Plants. 5(9):933-939. DOI: 10.1038/s41477-019-0501-1
Müller, L.M., Harrison, M.J. Phytohormones, miRNAs, and peptide signals integrate plant phosphorus status with arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. (2019) Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 50:132-139. DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2019.05.004
Floss, D.S., Gomez, S.K., Park, H.J., MacLean, A.M., Müller, L.M., Bhattarai, K.K., Lévesque-Tremblay, V., Maldonado-Mendoza, I.E., Harrison, M.J. A Transcriptional Program for Arbuscule Degeneration during AM Symbiosis Is Regulated by MYB1. (2017) Current Biology. 27(8):1206-1212. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.03.003
Müller, L.M., Lindner, H., Pires, N.D., Gagliardini, V., Grossniklaus, U. A subunit of the oligosaccharyltransferase complex is required for interspecific gametophyte recognition in Arabidopsis. (2016) Nature Communications. 7:10826. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10826
Pires, N.D., Bemer, M., Müller, L.M., Baroux, C., Spillane, C., Grossniklaus, U. Quantitative Genetics Identifies Cryptic Genetic Variation Involved in the Paternal Regulation of Seed Development. (2016) PLOS Genetics. 12(1):e1005806. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005806
Lindner, H., Kessler, S.A., Müller, L.M., Shimosato-Asano, H., Boisson-Dernier, A., Grossniklaus, U. TURAN and EVAN mediate pollen tube reception in Arabidopsis Synergids through protein glycosylation. (2015) PLOS Biology. 13(4):e1002139. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002139
Lindner, H., Müller, L.M., Boisson-Dernier, A., Grossniklaus, U. CrRLK1L receptor-like kinases: not just another brick in the wall. (2012) Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 15(6):659-69. DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2012.07.003
Richter, S., Müller, L.M., Stierhof, Y.D., Mayer, U., Takada, N., Kost, B., Vieten, A., Geldner, N., Koncz, C., Jürgens, G. Polarized cell growth in Arabidopsis requires endosomal recycling mediated by GBF1-related ARF exchange factors. (2011) Nature Cell Biology. 14(1):80-6. DOI: 10.1038/ncb2389
El-Kasmi, F., Pacher, T., Strompen, G., Stierhof, Y.D., Müller, L.M., Koncz, C., Mayer, U., Jürgens, G. Arabidopsis SNARE protein SEC22 is essential for gametophyte development and maintenance of Golgi-stack integrity. (2011) Plant Journal. 66(2):268-79. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2011.04487.x
BSc/MSc, Biology, University of Tuebingen, Germany
PhD, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Postdoctoral Fellow, Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY