Prof. Dr. Corinna Dawid

Professor

Email: corinna.dawid@tum.de

Academic Career and Research Areas

Prof. Dawid (*1982) focuses on the screening, identification and quantification of bioactive, sensory active and technofunctional natural compounds in food and plant raw materials as well as their human metabolism. She has a special focus on metabolites that are upregulated by abiotic and biotic stress factors in crops.

After studying food chemistry at the University of Münster, Prof. Dawid completed her doctorate under Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann and followed him to TUM in Weihenstephan in 2007, where she completed her doctorate and a postdoc. During her research stay at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, she played a key role in setting up the Institute for Molecular Sensory Science. Back in Munich, she completed her habilitation with studies on stress resistance in plants. In 2019, she took over as Acting Head of the Chair of Food Chemistry and Molecular Sensory Science. Since 2023, she has also held the professorship for “Functional Phytometabolomics” at TUM and is Deputy Director of the ZIEL Institute for Food and Health and the Bavarian Center for Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry (BayBioMS).

AWARDS

• Wissenschaftspreis Weihenstephan der Stadt Freising (2019)
• Förderpreis für Nachwuchswissenschaftler der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Qualitätsforschung (Pflanzliche Nahrungsmittel) DGQ e.V. (2013)

KEY PUBLICATIONS (all publications)

• Baur, S.; Frank, O.; Hausladen, H.; Hückelhoven, R.; Hofmann, T.; Eisenreich, W.; Dawid, C.* Biosynthesis of α-solanine and α-chaconine in potato leaves (Solanum tuberosum L.) – A ¹³CO₂ study. Food Chem. 2021, 365, 130461.
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• Schmid, C.; Mittermeier-Kleßinger, V.; Peters, V. C. T.; Berger, F.; Kramler, M.; Heuberger, H.; Rinder, R.; Hofmann, T.; Gutjahr, C.; Dawid, C.* Quantitative mapping of flavor and pharmacologically active compounds in European licorice roots (Glycyrrhiza glabra L.) in response to growth conditions and arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis. J. Agric. Food Chem. 2021, 69(44), 13173–13189.
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• Baumann T, Dunkel A., Schmid C, Schmitt S, Hiltensperger M, Lohr K,  Laketa V, Donakonda S, Ahting U, Lorenz-Depiereux B, Heil J, Schredelseker J, Simeoni L, Fecher C, Körber N, Bauer T, Hüser N, Hartmann D, Laschinger M, Eyerich K, Eyerich S, Anton  M, Streeter M, Wang T, Schraven B, Spiegel D, Assaad F,  Misgeld T, Zischka H, Murray P, Heine A, Korn T, Dawid C., Hofmann T, Knolle PA, Höchst B. Regulatory myeloid cells paralyze T cell immunity through cell-cell transfer of the metabolite methylglyoxal. Nature Immunaology. 2020; 21(5): 555–566.
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• Kutschera A, Dawid C., Gisch N, Schmid C, Raasch L, Gerster T, Schäffer M, Smakowska-Luzan E, Belkhadir Y, Vlot AC, Chandler CE, Schellenberger R, Schwudke D, Ernst RK, Dorey S, Hückelhoven R, Hofmann T, Ranf S. Bacterial medium-chain 3-hydroxy fatty acid metabolites trigger immunity in Arabidopsis plant. Science. 2019; 364: 178-181.
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• Dawid C., Hille K. Functional metabolomics—a useful tool to characterize stress-induced metabolome alterations opening new avenues towards tailoring food crop quality. Agronomy. 2018; 8(8): 138.
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