Academic Education:

B.Sc., Biology, University of Bonn, Germany
M.Sc., Biology, University of Bonn, Germany
Ph.D., Genetics, University of Bonn
Habilitation (Genetics)

Appointments:

Research Assistant, University of Bonn (1975-1978)

Postgraduate Research Biologist, Cena, Piracicaba, Brazil, 1980

Inst. of Genetics, University of Bonn (1978-1979, 1981-1985)

Assistant Prof (C2), University of Bonn (1986-1991)

Prof. for Plant Molecular Genetics, Hannover University (1991-present)

Dean of Studies, Biology Faculty, Hannover University (2002-2004)

Other Professional Activities:

Vice President, German Ass. of Biologists (vdbiol) (1998-2000)

President, German Ass. of Biologists (vdbiol) (2000-2004)

Chairman Conference of German Biol. Faculties (KBF) (2004-2008)

Short-term professorships for teaching plant Biotech under a DAAD-fellowship in Vietnam (Agricultural University Hanoi, Nong Lam University, HCMC) or Cairo University, Egypt. (2007, 2008)

Editorial Board: EUPHYTICA, GM-Crops

Reviewer : besides acting as associate editor the journal mentioned, I am acting as reviewer for various journals, including Plant Cell Reports, Journal of Biotechnology, Nature Protocols, Journal of Plant Physiology, Biologicals and various others.


Research Interests:

Our lab focuses on the development of efficient and reliable transgene-based systems for (a) improving resistance of plants against biotic and abiotic stresses as well as using transgenic plants for the expression of recombinant proteins (antibodies, vaccines or anti-infective agents).
As a long-term research interest we are working on unraveling the molecular mode of auxin action.


Teaching Activities:

With accepting the professorship at the University of Hannover (now: Leibniz Universität Hannover, LUH) in 1991, I took over the responsibility for teaching general and molecular genetics to biology students as well as, in recent years, to students in biochemistry, life sciences and plant biotechnology (undergraduate and graduate). At the graduate level I am teaching courses in “Plant Biotechnology”, “Expression Systems” and “Functional Genomics”.
Besides my teaching responsibilities at the LUH, I have teaching experience from the University of Bonn, North Eastern University (Boston), and, under short-term fellowships, at various international universities.

Selected Publications:

Reinard, T., Janke, V., Willard, J., Buck, F. Jacobsen, H,.J and Vockley, J., Cloning of a gene for an Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase from P. sativum and purification and characterization of ist product as an Isovaleryl-CoA Dehydrogenase. The J. Biol. Chem. Vol. 275 (43), 33738-33743, 2000

Szankowski, I., Briviba,K., Fleschhut,J., Schönherr,J., Jacobsen,H.-J. and Kiesecker,H., Transformation of apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) with the stilbene synthase gene from grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) and a PGIP gene from kiwi (Actinidia deliciosa), Plant Cell Rep, Vol. 22, 141-149, 2003

v. Stackelberg, M., Lindemann,S., Menke, M., Riesselmann,S. und Jacobsen,H.-J., Identification of AFLP and STS markers closely linked to the def-locus in pea,Theor. Appl. Genet. 106, 1293-1299, 2003

Tewari-Singh, N.,Sen, J., Kiesecker, H.,Reddy, V.S., Jacobsen, H.-J. und Guha-Mukherjee, S., Use of a herbicide or lysine plus threonine for non-antibiotic selection of transgenic chickpea, Plant Cell Rep. 22 (8), 576-583, 2004

Lauer, B., Ottleben, I., Jacobsen, H.J., and Reinard, T., Production of a Single-Chain Variable Fragment Antibody against Fumonisin B1. J. Agr.Food Chem. 53, 899 – 904, 2005
Hanafy, M., Pickardt, T., Kiesecker, H., Jacobsen, H.-J., Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of faba bean (Vicia faba L.) using embryo axes, EUPHYTICA, 1-10, 2005

Richter, A., de Kathen, A., de Lorenzo, G., Briviba, K., Hain, R., Ramsay, G., Jacobsen, H.-J. and Kiesecker, H., Transgenci peas (Pisum sativum L.) expressing polyglacturonase inhibiting protein from Raspberry (Rubus idaeus) and stilbene Synthase from grape (Vitis vinifery, Plant Cell Rep. 25, 1166-1173, 2006

Ferro, N., Gallegos, A., Bultinck, P., Jacobsen, H.-J., Carbo-Dorca, R., Reinard, T., Coulomb and overlap self-similarities: a comparative selective analysis of structure-function relationships for auxin-like molecules, J.Chem.Inf.Model. 46, 1751-1762, 2006

Ferro, N., Bultinck, P., Gallegos, A., Jacobsen, H.-J., Carbo-Dorca, R., Reinard, T., Unrevealed structural requirements for auxin-like molecules by theoretical and experimental evidences , Phytochemistry 68, 237-250, 2007

Hassan, F. Meens, J., Kiesecker,H., and Jacobsen, H.-J.,Heterologous Expression of a family 19 recombinant chitinase (Chit30) from Streptomyces olivaceoviridis ATCC 11238 to Enhance Fungal Resistance in Transgenic Pea (Pisum sativum L.), Journal of Biotechnology 143 302–308, 2009

Ali, Z., Kiesecker, H.,Hafeez F.Y., Schumacher, H.M. and Jacobsen, H.-J., Dicistronic binary vector system-A versatile tool for gene expression studies in cell cultures and plants., J. Biotechnology, in press (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19835918)

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