Barbara Hohn#
| Membership Number: | 92 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1988 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004 Professor Emeritus
- 1996 Titular Professor, University of Basel
- 1989 Lecturer for Molecular Genetics in Plants, Basel University
- 1978 - 2004 Junior and Senior Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
- 1971 - 1977 Postdoctoral fellow, University of Basel, Switzerland
- 1968 - 1970 Postdoctoral fellow, University of Stanford, USA
- 1967 - 1968 Postdoctoral fellow, University of Yale, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Plant transgenesis
- Plant biotechnology and epigenetics
- Epigenetic changes in plants
Honours and Awards
- 1980 EMBO Member
- 1988 Founding Member of Academia Europaea
- 1992 Science Prize from the City of Basel
- 2006 Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2008 Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London
- 2010 Ludwig-Wittgenstein-Preis
- 2014 Honorary Degree from the University of Lethbridge
