Ralf Reski

Ralf Reski studied biology, chemistry and pedagogy at the Universities of Giessen and Hamburg.

He was awarded his doctorate in Genetics in 1990 by the University of Hamburg and received his habilitation in General Botany in 1994.

From 1996 until 1999, he was a Heisenberg-Fellow of the German Research Foundation.{{Cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ralf_Reski/|title= Ralf Reski |website=ResearchGate |accessdate=5 January 2022}}

He was appointed Distinguished Professor and entitled Ordinarius at the University of Freiburg in 1999, where he became Head of the newly established Department of Plant Biotechnology.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bio-pro.de/standort/5_bioregionen/bioregio_freiburg/index.html?lang=en&artikelid=/artikel/02363/index.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120327034504/http://www.bio-pro.de/standort/5_bioregionen/bioregio_freiburg/index.html?lang=en&artikelid=%2Fartikel%2F02363%2Findex.html|url-status=dead|title=Ralf Reski - a risk taker who enjoys his work |website=bio-pro.de |archivedate=27 March 2012|accessdate=5 January 2022}} From 2001 until 2011, Reski was Director Plant Biotechnology at the Centre for Applied Biosciences (ZAB, University of Freiburg).{{cite web |url-status=dead |url=http://www.zab.uni-freiburg.de/forschung/pb.php |title=Plant Biotechnology |website=Zentrum für Angewandte Biowissenschaften |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110917170453/http://www.zab.uni-freiburg.de/forschung/pb.php |archive-date=2011-09-17 }}

From 2010 until 2019 he was elected senator and speaker in the academic senat of the university Freiburg.{{Cite web | url=http://www.senat.uni-freiburg.de/ | title=Senat, Senatsausschüsse und -kommissionen – Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg}}

Reski is founding principal investigator (PI) of four Excellence Clusters: the Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (bioss),{{Cite web|url=http://www.bioss.uni-freiburg.de/cms/reski-de.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120519002351/http://www.bioss.uni-freiburg.de/cms/reski-de.html|url-status=dead|title=bioss homepage|archivedate=19 May 2012|accessdate=5 January 2022}} the Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies (CIBSS),{{Cite web|url=https://www.cibss.uni-freiburg.de/about/cibss-investigators|title=Investigators|website=www.cibss.uni-freiburg.de|accessdate=5 January 2022}} Living, Adaptive and Energy-Autonomous Materials Systems (livMATs),{{Cite web|url=https://www.fit.uni-freiburg.de/acl_users/credentials_cookie_auth/require_login?came_from=http%3A//www.fit.uni-freiburg.de/livMatS-en/livmatspeople/principleinvestigators|title=FIT Freiburger Zentrum für interaktive Werkstoffe und bioinspirierte Technologien|website=www.fit.uni-freiburg.de|accessdate=5 January 2022}} and of the Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine (SGBM).[http://www.sgbm.uni-freiburg.de/index.php?option=com_zooprofiles&task=userProfile&user=2072&Itemid=338 Profile on SGBM homepage] Since 2011, he also is Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS). SGBM, bioss and FRIAS are funded within the German Universities Excellence Initiative.{{Cite web|url=http://www.uni-freiburg.de/universitaet-en/exzellenz|title=Homepage University of Freiburg, Excellence Initiative|accessdate=5 January 2022}} Furthermore, Reski is a founding PI of the Freiburg Initiative for Systems Biology (FRISYS){{Cite web |url=http://132.230.132.159/participants.html |title=FRISYS – Freiburg Initiative for Systems Biology |date=6 March 2012 |website= |accessdate=5 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306061026/http://132.230.132.159/participants.html |archive-date=6 March 2012 |url-status=dead}} funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Reski was one of the board members of the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) from 2009 to 2012.[http://www.iubs.org/iubs/pastboards/2009board.html Former board members of the IUBS] Since 2010, Reski is coordinator of QualFEEM, a TEMPUS-project for the improvement of Higher Education in the field of "environmental management and ecology" at the Russian Universities in Altai, Novosibirsk, Omsk and Tyumen.{{Cite web|url=http://cordis.europa.eu/wire/index.cfm?fuseaction=article.Detail&rcn=20858|title=CORDIS | European Commission|accessdate=5 January 2022}} In 2011 Reski was co-founder of the Trinational Institute for Plant Research (TIP).[http://www.itp-tip.eu/ Official TIP homepage]

In 2011 Ralf Reski was elected as lifetime member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (German:Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften).{{Cite web|url=https://www.haw.uni-heidelberg.de/akademie/members1909.en.html|title=HAW members since 1909|website=www.haw.uni-heidelberg.de|accessdate=5 January 2022}}

In 2012 he organized a Plant Biology Congress{{cite web |url=http://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/lifenet/announcements-en/global-denken-lokal-handeln-plant-biology-congress-2012/view?set_language=en |title=Think globally, act locally - Plant Biology Congress 2012 — Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies |accessdate=2012-12-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130106040520/http://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/lifenet/announcements-en/global-denken-lokal-handeln-plant-biology-congress-2012/view?set_language=en |archivedate=2013-01-06 }} which attracted 1000 researchers from about 60 countries.

In 2013 Reski became senior fellow at the University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study (USIAS).{{cite web |url=http://www.usias.fr/en/ralf-reski/ |title=Ralf Reski < Freiburg-Strasbourg Fellows 2013 < Fellows |accessdate=2013-10-30 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101144524/http://www.usias.fr/en/ralf-reski/ |archivedate=2013-11-01 }}

In 2015 he became the project coordinator of the Erasmus Programme "Trans-regional environmental awareness for sustainable usage of water resources" – in short TREASURE-WATER {{Cite web|url=https://www.pr.uni-freiburg.de/pm-en/2015/pm.2015-08-12.118-en|title=New curricula for a valuable resource – Office of University and Science Communications|website=www.pr.uni-freiburg.de|accessdate=5 January 2022}} that addresses higher education and training for the sustainable management of shared natural water resources in the area of the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan.{{Cite web|url=https://treasure-water.eu/about|title=Welcome|website=treasure-water.eu|accessdate=5 January 2022}}

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Reski's main area of research with more than 250 scientific publications{{Cite web|url=http://www.plant-biotech.net/publications|title=ReskiLab publications|accessdate=5 January 2022}} comprises the genetics, proteomics, metabolism, and cell development of moss plants, using the technique of homologous recombination for creating knockout mosses by gene targeting in a reverse genetics approach.{{cite journal |doi=10.1016/S1360-1385(98)01257-6 |title=Physcomitrella and Arabidopsis: The David and Goliath of reverse genetics |year=1998 |last1=Reski |first1=Ralf |journal=Trends in Plant Science |volume=3 |issue=6 |pages=209–210}}

Reski and his coworkers have identified hitherto unknown genes with biotechnological implication for agriculture and forestry.{{cite journal |doi=10.1093/bfgp/4.1.48 |title=Moss (Physcomitrella patens) functional genomics -- Gene discovery and tool development, with implications for crop plants and human health |year=2005 |last1=Reski |first1=R. |journal=Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics |volume=4 |pages=48–57 |pmid=15975264 |last2=Frank |first2=W |issue=1|doi-access=free }}

The cultivation of moss cells and their utilization for Molecular Farming is another main focal point of his research.{{cite journal |doi=10.1016/j.copbio.2007.07.012 |title=Moss bioreactors producing improved biopharmaceuticals |year=2007 |last1=Decker |first1=Eva L. |last2=Reski |first2=Ralf |journal=Current Opinion in Biotechnology |volume=18 |issue=5 |pages=393–8 |pmid=17869503}}

In 1998, Reski proposed the moss Physcomitrella patens as a model plant in biological research.{{cite journal |last=Reski |first=R. |year=1998 |title=Development, genetics and molecular biology of mosses |journal=Botanica Acta |volume=111 |pages=1–15 |url=http://www.plant-biotech.net/paper/Reski_1998_BotActa-111_1_scan.pdf |doi=10.1111/j.1438-8677.1998.tb00670.x}} Since then, he has contributed significantly towards mosses becoming a model plant in biological research on a worldwide scale. In 2004, Reski and colleagues from the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan successfully proposed the genome of Physcomitrella patens for complete sequencing at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a facility of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).{{Cite web|url=https://jgi.doe.gov/our-projects/|title=Our Projects|website=DOE Joint Genome Institute|accessdate=5 January 2022}} The genome was released in December 2007,{{cite journal |doi=10.1126/science.1150646 |title=The Physcomitrella Genome Reveals Evolutionary Insights into the Conquest of Land by Plants |year=2008 |last1=Rensing |first1=Stefan A. |last2=Lang |first2=Daniel |last3=Zimmer |first3=Andreas D. |last4=Terry |first4=Astrid |last5=Salamov |first5=Asaf |last6=Shapiro |first6=Harris |last7=Nishiyama |first7=Tomoaki |last8=Perroud |first8=Pierre-François |last9=Lindquist |first9=Erika A. |last10=Kamisugi |first10=Yasuko |last11=Tanahashi |first11=Takako |last12=Sakakibara |first12=Keiko |last13=Fujita |first13=Tomomichi |last14=Oishi |first14=Kazuko |last15=Shin-i |first15=Tadasu |last16=Kuroki |first16=Yoko |last17=Toyoda |first17=Atsushi |last18=Suzuki |first18=Yutaka |last19=Hashimoto |first19=Shin-ichi |last20=Yamaguchi |first20=Kazuo |last21=Sugano |first21=Sumio |last22=Kohara |first22=Yuji |last23=Fujiyama |first23=Asao |last24=Anterola |first24=Aldwin |last25=Aoki |first25=Setsuyuki |last26=Ashton |first26=Neil |last27=Barbazuk |first27=W. Brad |last28=Barker |first28=Elizabeth |last29=Bennetzen |first29=Jeffrey L. |last30=Blankenship |first30=Robert |journal=Science |volume=319 |issue=5859 |pages=64–9 |pmid=18079367|bibcode=2008Sci...319...64R |hdl=11858/00-001M-0000-0012-3787-A |s2cid=11115152 |hdl-access=free }} with the bioinformatic work spearheaded by Reski's group{{cite journal |doi=10.1038/16754 |pmid=9950417 |title=German/Swedish venture creates plant biotechnology giant |last1=Schiermeier |first1= Quirin |year=1999 |journal=Nature |volume=397 |issue=6717 |pages=283|bibcode=1999Natur.397..283S |doi-access=free }} and financed by the German National Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG).

To date, the Freiburg Chair of Plant Biotechnology hosts an online database of Physcomitrella patens comprising the genomic sequence, annotated gene models and supplemental information.[http://www.cosmoss.org/ database cosmoss.org]

Due to its scientific and economic importance, the genome of Physcomitrella patens has been chosen as a "flagship plant genome" by the DOE JGI in 2010.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hudsonalpha.org/gsc/|title=Genome Sequencing Center – Providing high-quality whole genome sequencing, assembly and analysis.|accessdate=5 January 2022}}

Also in 1998, Reski and coworkers generated a knockout moss by deleting an ftsZ gene and thus identified the first gene essential in the division of an organelle in any eukaryote.{{cite journal |bibcode=1998PNAS...95.4368S |jstor=44902 |title=Plant Nuclear Gene Knockout Reveals a Role in Plastid Division for the Homolog of the Bacterial Cell Division Protein FtsZ, an Ancestral Tubulin |first1=René |last1=Strepp |first2=Sirkka |last2=Scholz |first3=Sven |last3=Kruse |first4=Volker |last4=Speth |first5=Ralf |last5=Reski |volume=95 |year=1998 |pages=4368–73 |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |doi=10.1073/pnas.95.8.4368 |pmid=9539743 |issue=8 |pmc=22495|doi-access=free }}

Based on the results of further research on the ftsZ-gene family, Ralf Reski coined the term "plastoskeleton", analogous to the term "cytoskeleton", in 2000 and presented a new concept in cell biology of how chloroplasts, the green cell organelles of plants, change shape and divide.{{cite journal |doi=10.1083/jcb.151.4.945 |title=Visualization of a Cytoskeleton-like Ftsz Network in Chloroplasts |year=2000 |last1=Kiessling |first1=J. |last2=Kruse |first2=S. |last3=Rensing |first3=S. A. |last4=Harter |first4=K. |last5=Decker |first5=E. L. |last6=Reski |first6=R. |journal=The Journal of Cell Biology |volume=151 |issue=4 |pages=945–50 |pmid=11076976 |pmc=2169431}}{{cite journal |doi=10.1083/jcb.151.4.F19 |title=Skeletons in the Closet: How Do Chloroplasts Stay in Shape? |year=2000 |last1=McFadden |first1=G. I. |journal=The Journal of Cell Biology |volume=151 |issue=4 |pages=F19–22 |pmid=11076959 |pmc=2169437}}{{cite journal |doi=10.1016/S1360-1385(02)02232-X |title=Rings and networks: The amazing complexity of FtsZ in chloroplasts |year=2002 |last1=Reski |first1=Ralf |journal=Trends in Plant Science |volume=7 |issue=3 |pages=103–5 |pmid=11906832}}

In 1999, the chemical company BASF invested more than 30 Mio. DM in a four-year cooperation project with Reski to identify new genes which may be able to make crop plants more resistant to drought, cold and attack by pests. Plants with improved nutritional value (vitamins or polyunsaturated fatty acids) have also been in the research focus of their collaboration.{{cite journal |doi=10.1038/16754 |year=1999 |last1=Schiermeier |first1=Quirin |journal=Nature |volume=397 |issue=6717 |pages=283 |pmid= |title=German/Swedish venture creates plant biotechnology giant | bibcode = 1999Natur.397..283S |doi-access=free }}

In the same year, Reski invented the moss bioreactorPatent "Production of proteinaceous substances", on WIPO-database: [http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2001025456&recNum=1&docAn=DE2000003374&queryString=WO:WO0125456&maxRec=1] and founded "greenovation Biotech GmbH",[http://www.greenovation.com/history.html Homepage greenovation Biotech GmbH, Profile of Ralf Reski] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111109213227/http://www.greenovation.com/history.html |date=2011-11-09 }} a biotechnology company utilizing moss bioreactors for the production of pharmaceuticals.{{cite journal |doi=10.1007/s00449-007-0151-y |title=Current achievements in the production of complex biopharmaceuticals with moss bioreactors |year=2007 |last1=Decker |first1=Eva L. |last2=Reski |first2=Ralf |journal=Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering |volume=31 |pages=3–9 |pmid=17701058 |issue=1|s2cid=4673669 }} In 2011, Reski and coworkers produced recombinant, biologically active human factor H in a moss bioreactor.{{cite journal |doi=10.1111/j.1467-7652.2010.00552.x |title=Production of biologically active recombinant human factor H in Physcomitrella |year=2011 |last1=Büttner-Mainik |first1=Annette |last2=Parsons |first2=Juliana |last3=Jérôme |first3=Hanna |last4=Hartmann |first4=Andrea |last5=Lamer |first5=Stephanie |last6=Schaaf |first6=Andreas |last7=Schlosser |first7=Andreas |last8=Zipfel |first8=Peter F. |last9=Reski |first9=Ralf |last10=Decker |first10=Eva L. |journal=Plant Biotechnology Journal |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=373–83 |pmid=20723134|doi-access=free }} In 2017 the first clinical trial phase 1 was completed testing the enzyme Alpha-galactosidase, which was produced in moss, to treat Fabry disease.Greenovation gelingt der Durchbruch [https://www.goingpublic.de/greenovation-gelingt-der-durchbruch Portal goingpublic]

In 2010, Reski established the International Moss Stock Center (IMSC), which stores and freely distributes moss strains, transgenics and ecotypes. The IMSC assigns accession numbers that can be used in scientific publications to facilitate identification and availability of the respective samples.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pr.uni-freiburg.de/pm/2010/pm.2010-02-24.39|title=Mosses, deep-frozen|website=Hochschul- und Wissenschaftskommunikation|accessdate=5 January 2022}}

Also in 2010, Reski and colleagues discovered a new mechanism of gene regulation; the epigenetic gene silencing by microRNAs.{{cite journal |doi=10.1016/j.cell.2009.12.023 |title=Transcriptional Control of Gene Expression by MicroRNAs |year=2010 |last1=Khraiwesh |first1=Basel |last2=Arif |first2=M. Asif |last3=Seumel |first3=Gotelinde I. |last4=Ossowski |first4=Stephan |last5=Weigel |first5=Detlef |last6=Reski |first6=Ralf |last7=Frank |first7=Wolfgang |journal=Cell |volume=140 |pages=111–22 |pmid=20085706 |issue=1|s2cid=4672676 |doi-access=free }}[http://ts-si.org/genetics-&-genome/21948-discovery-micrornas-can-directly-turn-off-genes.html Discovery: microRNAs can dirtectly turn off genes]

Reski is directly involved in Mossclone, a European project (7th Framework Programme, FP7) which started in 2012 and aims to develop an air quality monitoring tool by using devitalized moss clones.

In 2016, Reski and colleagues identified a homeobox gene as the master regulator for embryo development{{Cite journal |doi = 10.1038/nplants.2015.209|pmid = 27250874|title = A single homeobox gene triggers phase transition, embryogenesis and asexual reproduction|journal = Nature Plants|volume = 2|issue = 2|pages = 15209|year = 2016|last1 = Horst|first1 = Nelly A.|last2 = Katz|first2 = Aviva|last3 = Pereman|first3 = Idan|last4 = Decker|first4 = Eva L.|last5 = Ohad|first5 = Nir|last6 = Reski|first6 = Ralf|s2cid = 4677699}} and a basic genetic toolkit for stoma development{{Cite journal | doi=10.1038/NPLANTS.2016.179| pmid=27892923| title=Origin and function of stomata in the moss Physcomitrella patens| journal=Nature Plants| volume=2| issue=12| year=2016| last1=Chater| first1=Caspar C.| last2=Caine| first2=Robert S.| last3=Tomek| first3=Marta| last4=Wallace| first4=Simon| last5=Kamisugi| first5=Yasuko| last6=Cuming| first6=Andrew C.| last7=Lang| first7=Daniel| last8=MacAlister| first8=Cora A.| last9=Casson| first9=Stuart| last10=Bergmann| first10=Dominique C.| last11=Decker| first11=Eva L.| last12=Frank| first12=Wolfgang| last13=Gray| first13=Julie E.| last14=Fleming| first14=Andrew| last15=Reski| first15=Ralf| last16=Beerling| first16=David J.| pages=16179| pmc=5131878| url=http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/110726/1/Chater_MS_NPlants_final_4Oct2016MS.pdf}} and in 2017 they described that the moss cuticle was ancestral to lignin evolution.{{cite journal | doi = 10.1038/ncomms14713 | volume=8 | title=A phenol-enriched cuticle is ancestral to lignin evolution in land plants | year=2017 | journal=Nature Communications | page=14713 | last1 = Renault | first1 = Hugues | last2 = Alber | first2 = Annette | last3 = Horst | first3 = Nelly A. | last4 = Basilio Lopes | first4 = Alexandra | last5 = Fich | first5 = Eric A. | last6 = Kriegshauser | first6 = Lucie | last7 = Wiedemann | first7 = Gertrud | last8 = Ullmann | first8 = Pascaline | last9 = Herrgott | first9 = Laurence | last10 = Erhardt | first10 = Mathieu | last11 = Pineau | first11 = Emmanuelle | last12 = Ehlting | first12 = Jürgen | last13 = Schmitt | first13 = Martine | last14 = Rose | first14 = Jocelyn K. C. | last15 = Reski | first15 = Ralf | last16 = Werck-Reichhart | first16 = Danièle| pmid=28270693 | pmc=5344971 | bibcode=2017NatCo...814713R | doi-access = free }}.

In 2018, Reski and colleagues analysed the six RecQ proteins in Physcomitrella patens and in Arabidopsis thaliana.{{Cite journal |doi = 10.1105/tpc.17.00632|pmid = 29514942|pmc = 5894843|title = RecQ Helicases Function in Development, DNA Repair, and Gene Targeting in Physcomitrella patens|journal = The Plant Cell|volume = 30|issue = 3|pages = 717–736|year = 2018|last1 = Wiedemann|first1 = Gertrud|last2 = Van Gessel|first2 = Nico|last3 = Köchl|first3 = Fabian|last4 = Hunn|first4 = Lisa|last5 = Schulze|first5 = Katrin|last6 = Maloukh|first6 = Lina|last7 = Nogué|first7 = Fabien|last8 = Decker|first8 = Eva L.|last9 = Hartung|first9 = Frank|last10 = Reski|first10 = Ralf}} They found that moss RecQ4, the ortholog of the human Bloom syndrome protein, acts as a repressor of homologous recombination, protects the genome from mutations, and is pivotal for embryogenesis and subsequent plant development. In contrast, moss RecQ6 acts as a potent enhancer of gene targeting.{{Cite web|url=https://plantae.org/genome-surveillance/|title=RecQ Proteins: Masters of Genome Surveillance|first=Nancy|last=Eckardt|date=24 May 2018|website=Plantae|accessdate=5 January 2022}}

In 2023, Reski and colleagues published the genome sequence of a living fossil, the moss Takakia lepidozioides from Tibet. It faces extinction due to climate change.Ruoyang Hu, Xuedong Li, Yong Hu, Runjie Zhang, Qiang Lv, Min Zhang, Xianyong Sheng, Feng Zhao, Zhijia Chen, Yuhan Ding, Huan Yuan, Xiaofeng Wu, Shuang Xing, Xiaoyu Yan, Fang Bao, Ping Wan, Lihong Xiao, Xiaoqin Wang, Wei Xiao, Eva L. Decker, Nico van Gessel, Hugues Renault, Gertrud Wiedemann, Nelly A. Horst, Fabian B. Haas, Per K.I. Wilhelmsson, Kristian K. Ullrich, Eva Neumann, Bin Lv, Chengzhi Liang, Huilong Du, Hongwei Lu, Qiang Gao, Zhukuan Cheng, Hanli You, Peiyong Xin, Jinfang Chu, Chien-Hsun Huang, Yang Liu, Shanshan Dong, Liangsheng Zhang, Fei Chen, Lei Deng, Fuzhou Duan, Wenji Zhao, Kai Li, Zhongfeng Li, Xingru Li, Hengjian Cui, Yong E. Zhang, Chuan Ma, Ruiliang Zhu, Yu Jia, Meizhi Wang, Mitsuyasu Hasebe, Jinzhong Fu, Bernard Goffinet, Hong Ma, Stefan A. Rensing, Ralf Reski, Yikun He: Adaptive evolution of the enigmatic Takakia now facing climate change in Tibet {{doi|10.1016/j.cell.2023.07.003}}

• 2003 – 2012 Supervisory Board of BioPro GmbH,{{cite web |url=http://www.bio-pro.de/magazin/index.html?lang=en&artikelid=/artikel/08000/index.html |title=Biotechnology / Life Sciences in Baden-Württemberg BIOPRO Baden-Württemberg: 10 years |website=www.bio-pro.de |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140831113855/http://www.bio-pro.de/magazin/index.html?lang=en&artikelid=/artikel/08000/index.html |archive-date=2014-08-31}} an enterprise of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg
• 2004–2010 Advisory board BMBF program Risk assessment in Plant Biotechnology{{Cite web|url=https://www.badische-zeitung.de/gentechnik-die-gruene-gefahr|title=Gentechnik – die grüne Gefahr? – Bildung & Wissen – Badische Zeitung|first=Badische|last=Zeitung|website=www.badische-zeitung.de|date=25 April 2009 |accessdate=5 January 2022}}
• 2007–2010 Think tank on Innovation Policy (German Innovationsrat) headed by Günther Oettinger, former Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg and now European Commissioner[http://www2.landtag-bw.de/WP14/Drucksachen/3000/14_3001_d.pdf Innovationsrat Baden-Württemberg] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219173743/http://www2.landtag-bw.de/WP14/Drucksachen/3000/14_3001_d.pdf |date=2015-02-19 }}
• 2008–2012 elected president of Deutsches Nationalkomitee Biologie (DNK, German National Committee of IUBS and IUMS within ICSU){{Cite web|url=http://www.iubs-member-germany.de/de/03Vorstand.html|title=Vorstand – Deutsches Nationalkomitee (DNK) der IUBS und IUMS|website=www.iubs-member-germany.de|accessdate=5 January 2022}}
• 2008–2012 Advisory board of German Life Sciences Association (Verband Biologie, Biowissenschaften und Biomedizin in Deutschland e.V., VBIO)[http://www.vbio.de/der_vbio/ueber_den_vbio/beirat/index_ger.html VBIO Advisory board]
• 2009–2012 Executive committee Member of the IUBS{{Cite web|url=http://www.iubs.org/iubs/currentboard.html|title=IUBS board|accessdate=5 January 2022}}
• 2016–2020 Advisory Board CeBiTec – Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University{{Cite web|url=http://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/rektoratsmeldungen/entry/wissenschaftlicher_beirat_des_cebitec|title=Meldungen aus dem Rektorat: Bestellung des wissenschaftlichen Beirats des CeBiTec|website=ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de|accessdate=5 January 2022}}

• 2002–2012 Plant Cell Reports{{Cite web | url=https://www.springer.com/life+sci/cell+biology/journal/299?detailsPage=editorialBoard |title = Plant Cell Reports}}{{Cite web | url=https://www.springer.com/life+sciences/cell+biology/journal/299?detailsPage=press | title=Plant Cell Reports}}
• 2004–2006 Plant Biology (Guest-Editor)
• 2008–2013 Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology{{Cite web|url=https://www.science.org/content/article/pesticide-study-sparks-backlash|title=Pesticide Study Sparks Backlash|website=www.science.org|accessdate=5 January 2022}}
• 2009–2012 Plant Cell Reports, editor-in-chief{{Cite web|url=https://www.springer.com/journal/299/editors|title=Plant Cell Reports|website=Springer|accessdate=5 January 2022}}
• 2010–2012 Biology International[http://www.iubs.org/pdf/publi/BI/Vol%2048.pdf Editorial board Biology International]

• University of Freiburg Faculty of Biology

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• [http://www.plant-biotech.net/ The Reski Lab]
• [http://www.plant-biotech.net/publications Publications]
• [https://twitter.com/ReskiLab Reski Lab on Twitter]

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20110718202735/http://www.bio-pro.de/magazin/umfeld/archiv_2005/index.html?lang=en&artikelid=%2Fartikel%2F03016%2Findex.html "Moss bioreactors do not smell" – Interview with Professor Ralf Reski]
• [http://www.biotechnologie.de/bio/generator/Navigation/English/Services/search,did=70910.html?listBlId=17574&listXY=1&listST=moss%20reski The first decoded moss genome: From all-conquering country dweller to producer of medicines]
• [http://www.bio-pro.de/standort/5_bioregionen/bioregio_freiburg/index.html?lang=en&artikelid=/artikel/03635/index.html An inconspicuous relative]
• [http://www.bio-pro.de/standort/5_bioregionen/bioregio_freiburg/index.html?lang=en&artikelid=/artikel/03629/index.html Protein communicates information about stress]
• [http://www.bio-pro.de/magazin/wissenschaft/archiv_2008/index.html?lang=en&artikelid=/artikel/01861/index.html The conquest of land by plants]
• [https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100721101031.htm Medicine from Moss: Bioreactor Technique May Offer Hope to People With Age-Related Blindness]
• [http://theamericanscholar.org/tough-as-old-moss "Tough as old moss"] – Ralf Reski explains in The American Scholar (magazine) why the moss Physcomitrella patens survives in the cold

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