Chris-Carolin Schön

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Chris-Carolin Schön (born May 13, 1963 in Tübingen ) is a German agricultural scientist and plant geneticist. She is a professor at the Technical University of Munich .

Career

Schön studied agricultural sciences at the University of Hohenheim from 1985 to 1988 . From 1988 to 1990 she studied at Oregon State University (USA) and graduated in 1990 with a Master of Science in Crop Science. She then moved back to the University of Hohenheim as a research assistant and did her doctorate there in 1993.

From 1993 to 1996 she was the coordinator for new technologies at KWS SAAT AG . From 1996 to 2007 she was the head of the State Plant Breeding Institute at the University of Hohenheim, where she completed her habilitation in plant breeding in 2006 . From 2006 to 2007, Schön was a visiting scientist at the Molecular Plant Breeding CRC in Adelaide (Australia).

Schön has been a lecturer at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Zaragoza (IAMZ) in Spain since 2003. In 2007 Schön was appointed professor for plant breeding at the Technical University of Munich .

research

Schön conducts research in the field of plant breeding with a focus on useful plants . It develops and optimizes molecular biological breeding methods and molecular markers in order to obtain crops that achieve high yields and are resistant to environmental changes.

In this context, she deals intensively with corn , wheat , sunflowers and rye . She was able to decipher the first reference genome for European hard corn and identify genes that are associated with the cold tolerance of corn. She also studied C4 photosynthesis in maize to improve drought tolerance and biomass production of maize. Schön was also involved in deciphering and analyzing the rye genome. Rye delivers good yields even in cool and humid locations and on nutrient-poor soils, and understanding the genetic basis for this is also relevant for other types of grain.

In addition to molecular biological methods, Schön also uses classic breeding processes and optimizes them. With "Synbreed" she founded an interdisciplinary network that aims to conduct genome-based breeding research on plants and animals.

Awards

List of publications

  • C. Lehermeier, N. Krämer, E. Bauer, C. Bauland, C. Camisan, L. Campo, P. Flament, AE Melchinger, M. Menz, N. Meyer, L. Moreau, J. Moreno-Gonzáles, M Ouzunova, H. Pausch, N. Ranc, W. Schipprack, M. Schönleben, H. Walter, A. Charcosset, CC Schön: Usefulness of multiparental populations of maize (Zea mays L.) for genome-based prediction. In: Genetics. Volume 198, 2014, pp. 3-16.
  • S. Unterseer, E. Bauer, G. Haberer, M. Seidel, C. Knaak, M. Ouzunova, T. Meitinger, TM Strom, R. Fries, H. Pausch, C. Bertani, A. Davassi, KFX Mayer, CC Schön: A powerful tool for genome analysis in maize: development and evaluation of the high density 600 k SNP genotyping array. In: BMC Genomics. Volume 15, 2014, p. 823.
  • E. Bauer, M. Falque, H. Walter, C. Bauland, C. Camisan, L. Campo, N. Meyer, N. Ranc, R. Rincent, W. Schipprack, T. Altmann, P. Flament, AE Melchinger , M. Menz, J. Moreno-González, M. Ouzunova, P. Revilla, A. Charcosset, OC Martin, CC Schön: Intraspecific variation of recombination rate in maize. In: Genome Biology. Volume 14, 2013, p. R103.
  • V. Wimmer, C. Lehermeier, T. Albrecht, HJ Auinger, Y. Wang, CC Schön: Genome-wide prediction of traits with different genetic architecture through efficient variable selection. In: Genetics. Volume 195, 2013, pp. 573-587.
  • V. Wimmer, T. Albrecht, HJ Auinger, CC Schön: Synbreed: A framework for the analysis of genomic prediction data using R. In: Bioinformatics. Volume 28, 2012, pp. 2086-2087.
  • Further publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pedro Revilla, Víctor Manuel Rodríguez, Amando Ordás, Renaud Rincent, Alain Charcosset, Catherine Giauffret, Albrecht E. Melchinger, Chris-Carolin Schön, Eva Bauer, Thomas Altmann, Dominique Brunel, Jesús Moreno-González, Laura Campo, Milena Ouzunova, Ángel Álvarez, José Ignacio Ruíz de Galarreta, Jacques Laborde, Rosa Ana Malvar: Association mapping for cold tolerance in two large maize inbred panels. In: BMC Plant Biology. 16, 2016, doi : 10.1186 / s12870-016-0816-2 .
  2. ↑ Mihaela M. Martis, Ruonan Zhou, Grit Haseneyer, Thomas Schmutzer, Jan Vrána, Marie Kubaláková, Susanne König, Karl G. Kugler, Uwe Scholz, Bernd Hackauf, Viktor Korzun, Chris-Carolin Schön, Jaroslav Doležel, Eva Bauer, Klaus FX Mayer, Nils Stein: Reticulate Evolution of the Rye Genome. In: The Plant Cell. 25, 2013, p. 3685, doi : 10.1105 / tpc.113.114553 .
  3. ^ Committee: Forum Ecology. Retrieved March 17, 2020 .
  4. ^ Members. Retrieved March 7, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Prime Minister Dr. Markus Söder awards Bavarian Order of Merit | Bavarian state portal. Retrieved March 17, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Nice, Chris-Carolin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural scientist and plant geneticist, as well as university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen