Barbara Hobom

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Barbara Hobom (born Schnegg ; * 1940 in Cologne ) is a German science journalist .

Life

She studied genetics , biochemistry and microbiology in Munich and Berlin and was born on November 2, 1966 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with the dissertation on the genetics of the resistance of F + strains against male-specific bacteriophages . Studies using the example of E. coli / phage fr. PhD . She then worked in basic research in molecular biology at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Munich , at Stanford University and at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg . She has been working as a freelance science journalist since 1973 - primarily for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . Her publications, including several books, cover the fields of genetic engineering , biotechnology , developmental biology , biochemistry, virology , immunology and molecular biology. In the 1990s she also held a teaching position for science journalism at the Philipps University of Marburg .

She married Gerd Hobom , who had received his doctorate in Munich a year before her. He later became professor of molecular biology in Freiburg and at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen and chairman of the Central Commission for Biosafety .

The Center for Biological Signaling Studies (BIOSS) at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg awarded the Barbara Hobom Prize, endowed with 10,000 euros, to promising young female scientists in 2010, 2011 and 2012. The award was given to excellent dissertations by doctoral students in the fields of synthetic biology , signal transduction and bioengineering .

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • Georg Bauer, Barbara Hobom, Till Uwe Keil, Brian Martin: Lexicon of basic research. Volume 1: Genetics, Immunology, Virology. Werk-Verlag Dr. Edmund Banaschweski, Munich 1976, ISBN 978-3-804-00222-7 .
  • Barbara Hobom: Explored Life. A non-fiction book of modern biology . Herder Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1980, ISBN 3-45118-666-7 .
  • Barbara Hobom: The human immune system. Molecules and cells in brilliant interplay. In the PZ series of publications , Volume 4, Govi-Verlag, Eschborn 1992, ISBN 978-3-774-10295-8 .
  • Barbara Hobom: No place for stray microbes. Results of the advisory board of the joint project “Safety Research Genetic Engineering”. Bayer AG, Leverkusen 1995.
  • Claudia Eberhard-Metzger, Ingrid Glomp, Barbara Hobom: The Genome Puzzle. Researchers on the trail of genetic makeup. Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberg 1998, ISBN 978-3-642-63783-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lieselotte Resch / Ladislaus Buzás: Directory of doctors and dissertations from the University of Ingolstadt - Landshut - Munich 1472–1970. Volume 7 & 8: Philosophical Faculty 1951–1970. Faculty of Natural Sciences 1937–1970 . University Library Munich , Munich, 1978, page 340.
  2. ↑ a b c “Awards”. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt , Vol. 93, Issue 4, January 26, 1996, page 206.
  3. ^ German Youth Institute ( ed. ): What for children. Growing up in Germany. A manual . Kösel-Verlag , Munich , 1993, ISBN 978-3-466-30344-1 , page 521.
  4. ↑ a b Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau , Volume 60, 2007, page 28.
  5. ↑ Information on the Barbara Hobom Prize on the homepage of the Central University Administration of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. Retrieved from zuv.uni-freiburg.de on September 5, 2019.
  6. ↑ "Barbara Hobom receives Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize". In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 8, 1995.
personal data
SURNAME Hobom, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne