Hans-Jörg Jacobsen

Hans-Jörg Jacobsen (born April 29, 1949 ) is a German biologist and university professor.

Life

Jacobsen studied biology at the University of Bonn from 1969 . In 1974 he completed his studies with a diploma. Until 1978 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Bonn. In 1978 he received his doctorate. He then continued to work at the Institute for Genetics at the University of Bonn, interrupted by a research stay in Brazil in 1980. In 1986 he received a C2 professorship in Bonn, which he held until 1991 when he accepted a call to Hanover . He has been teaching at Northeastern University in Boston since 2014 .

Act

Jacobsen is head of the plant biotechnology department at the Institute for Plant Genetics at Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University in Hanover . He is a member of the Presidium of the NaturschutzForum Deutschland (NaFor), Chairman of the Society for Plant Biotechnology and a member of the Board of Directors of the Scientific Group on Green Genetic Engineering. Jacobsen is also a member of the Advisory Board on Genetic Diversity of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture . He is visiting professor at Northeastern University in Boston.

Jacobsen deals with the development and use of transgenic crops . The focus of work is on improved resistance to pests and abiotic stress such as drought, heat and cold. He is also researching the possibility of high-quality proteins being produced by transgenic plants.

Jacobsen was the scientific initiator of the HannoverGen project. In this project, financed by the state of Lower Saxony , students should be familiarized with the basics of biotechnology through scientific experiments. The project was discontinued in 2013 by the Red-Green state government.

Jacobsen's h-index is 20, with over 1,400 citations.

In addition to his scientific work, Jacobsen also participates in the public debate on biotechnology. He advocates the use of biotechnology, namely genetic engineering , and positions himself as a sharp critic of their opponents. He throws this u. a. Unscientific, selective data selection and economically motivated lobbyism . He also criticizes the media for uncritical reporting on opponents of genetic engineering.

Jacobsen wrote debates a. a. for Spiegel Online and NovoArgumente . He was u. a. interviewed by the magazine Cicero and took part alongside Horst Seehofer and others in a panel discussion organized by the time on the subject of biotechnology. He is also a regular guest author on the political blog Axis des Guten .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• Plant biotechnology. Springer Berlin, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-540-24086-1 .

Co-Authorship

• with Noel Ferro, Thomas Bredow and Thomas Reinard: Route to Novel Auxin: Auxin Chemical Space toward Biological Correlation Carriers. In: Chemical Reviews. Vol. 110, No. 8, August 11, 2010, ISSN  0009-2665 , pp. 4690-4708, doi : 10.1021 / cr800229s .
• with Björn Lauer, Ilka Ottleben and Thomas Reinard: Production of a Single-Chain Variable Fragment Antibody against Fumonisin B1. In: Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Vol. 53, No. 4, February 2005, ISSN  0021-8561 , pp. 899-904, doi : 10.1021 / jf048651s .
• with Michael Hust, Edgar Maiss and Thomas Reinard: The production of a genus-specific recombinant antibody (scFv) using a recombinant potyvirus protease. In: Journal of Virological Methods. Vol. 106, No. 2, December 2002, pp. 225-233, doi : 10.1016 / S0166-0934 (02) 00166-0 .
• with Thomas Reinard, Viktoria Janke, Jan Willard, Fritz Buck and Jerry Vockley: Cloning of a gene for an acyl-CoA dehydrogenase from Pisum sativum L. and purification and characterization of its product as an isovaleryl-CoA dehydrogenase. In: Journal of Biological Chemistry. Vol. 275, No. 43, October 2000, ISSN  0021-9258 , pp. 33738-33743, doi : 10.1074 / jbc.M004178200 .
• with Thomas Reinard: A soluble high affinity auxin-binding protein from pea apex. In: Journal of Plant Physiology. Vol. 147, No. 1, 1995, ISSN  0176-1617 , pp. 132-138, doi : 10.1016 / S0176-1617 (11) 81425-2 .
• with Stefanie Sprunck and Thomas Reinard: Indole-3-lactic acid is a weak auxin analogue but not an anti-auxin. In: Journal of Plant Growth Regulation. Vol. 14, No. 4, October 1995, ISSN  0721-7595 , pp. 191-197, doi : 10.1007 / BF00204911 .
• with Thomas Reinard: An inexpensive small volume equilibrium dialysis system for protein-ligand binding assays. In: Analytical Biochemistry. Vol. 176, January 1, 1989, ISSN  0003-2697 , pp. 157-160, doi : 10.1016 / 0003-2697 (89) 90286-8 .

Editorships

• Where we're headed ... Life sciences in dialogue. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2002, ISBN 3-527-30567-X .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Axis of the Good from August 3, 2018
2. ↑ Emeritus professor at Leibniz University Hannover. genetik.uni-hannover.de, accessed on September 14, 2019 . 
3. ^ Faculty. (No longer available online.) Northeastern.edu, archived from the original on January 10, 2014 ; accessed on January 10, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and website  
4. ↑ citations. scholar.google.com, accessed January 10, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Online diary. achgut.com, accessed January 10, 2014 . 
6. ↑ Accreditation helps with studying. spiegel.de, accessed on January 10, 2014 . 
7. ↑ BASF and genetic engineering: Nothing like gone! (No longer available online.) Novo-argumente.com, archived from the original on January 10, 2014 ; accessed on January 10, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Bio? A myth! cicero.de, accessed on January 10, 2014 . 
9. ↑ Peace in the field. zeit.de, accessed on January 10, 2014 . 
10. ^ Short profile and contributions by Hans-Jörg Jacobsen on the axis of the good . achgut.com, accessed November 22, 2016 .