Christian Jung

This article deals with the natural scientist. For the FDP politician of the same name, see Christian Jung (politician) ; Christian Jung is also the name of the former Bavarian state chairman of the party " Die Freiheit ", who left it as a result of the split in this party.

Christian Jung (* 17th September 1956 in Northeim ) is a German plant geneticist and molecular biologist . In 2005 he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, endowed with 1.55 million euros, for his research into the breeding of pest-resistant plants.

Life

Christian Jung was born in Northeim in 1956 , where he attended elementary school between 1962 and 1966 and grammar school between 1966 and 1975 and graduated from high school. He then completed his military service and began studying agricultural sciences in Göttingen in 1976 . From 1977 to 1979 he completed a total of nine months of internships in agricultural businesses in Germany and Canada and he finished his studies in 1981 with a thesis on the subject of " Detection of nitrogen fixation in two strains of the hydrogen bacterium Alcaligenes latus " under Professor Hans Günter Schlegel .

From 1981 to 1984 he worked at the Institute for Plant Cultivation and Plant Breeding in Göttingen, where he was a research assistant from 1982 to 1984. He received his doctorate here in 1984 under the title “ Personal contribution and interactions of rye and wheat genomes in triticale ” under Professor Röbbelen. From 1984 to 1986 he was a research assistant at the chair for applied genetics at the University of Hanover and from 1987 to 1992 temporary academic advisor at the University of Munich . The habilitation took place in 1992 under Professor Herrmann on the subject of "Molecular genome analysis in useful plants". After his habilitation, he was a private lecturer and senior assistant in Munich for almost a year, and since 1993 he has been professor and director at the Institute for Plant Cultivation and Plant Breeding at Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel .

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Christian Jung's research area is in the area of ​​molecular breeding research and in the development of pest-resistant crops. As part of a joint project with other scientists, he succeeded for the first time in cloning a resistance gene against roundworms from beets . However, there is still no scientific evidence for the function of this gene in sugar beet . The molecular sex determination of plants is also one of Christian Jung's areas of work.

Memberships and activities

• 1993 to 2000: Deputy member of the Central Commission for Biosafety (ZKBS)
• 1997 to 1999: Deputy Chairman of the Enquête Commission of the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament "Chances and Risks of Genetic Technology"
• Member of the DFG Senate Commission for the Assessment of Substances in Agriculture (SKLW)
• Editor of the journal Plant Breeding
• 2000–2004 member of the Scientific Coordinating Committee of the national Pflangenom project GABI
• 2013 member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• since 2019 chairman of the FDP parliamentary group in the 2nd committee of inquiry of the 19th electoral term of the German Bundestag (vulgo: toll affair committee of inquiry )

Web links

• Portrait at the DFG ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Literature by and about Christian Jung in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Member entry by Christian Jung (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 5, 2016.
2. ↑ German Bundestag - Dr. Christian Jung. Retrieved December 14, 2019 .