Ben Scheres
Bernardus Johannes Godefridus Scheres (Ben) Scheres (born July 10, 1960 in Echt ) is a Dutch developmental biologist . He is professor for developmental biology of plants at Wageningen University .
Scheres studied phytopathology at Wageningen University, where he received his doctorate in 1990. After post-doctoral studies at the Laboratory for Genetics in Ghent, he became a lecturer at the University of Utrecht , where he became Professor of Developmental Biology of Plants in 1999 and Professor of Molecular Genetics in 2005.
Scheres deals with the developmental biology of plants and its comparison with that of animals, in which he discovered many similarities. He used the cress wall as a test plant. Among other things, he discovered the role of stem cells in the growth and development of the roots. In doing so, he specifically switched off individual cells with a laser and blocked individual genes in order to explore their role in development.
In 2006 he received the Spinoza Prize . He received the Young Chemist Prize from the Dutch research organization NWO. In 2004 he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences . In 2000 he received the Siron Pelton Prize from the American Botanical Society. In 2017 he was elected to the European Molecular Biology Organization .
Fonts
- with L. Dolan u. a .: Cellular organization of the Arabidopsis thaliana root, Development 119, 1993, pp. 71-84.
- with H. Wolkenfelt: The Arabidopsis root as a model to study plant development, Plant Physiol. Bioch. , Volume 36, 1998, pp. 21-32.
- Stem Cells: A Plant Biology Perspective, Cell , Vol. 122, 2005, 499-504
- Stem-cell niches: nursery rhymes across kingdoms, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology , Volume 8, 2007, pp. 345-354
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| SURNAME | Scissors, ben |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Scheres, Bernardus Johannes Godefridus Scheres (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch developmental biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Really |