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Joachim Schiemann
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Joachim Schiemann,
Ph.D. is head of the Genetechnology and Biosafety Division of the Federal Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry (BBA). |
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He is giving lectures at Technical University Braunschweig (Faculty of Bio-sciences and Psychology) and Lüneburg University (Faculty of Economy and Social Sciences). Dr. Schiemann received a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Martin-Luther-University Halle in 1977. From 1976 to 1991 he worked as senior scientist at the Institute for Plant Biochemistry Halle and the Central Institute for Genetics and Crop Plants Research Gatersleben. In 1991 he joined the BBA's Institute for Plant Virology, Microbiology and Biosafety. From 2000 to 2004, Dr. Schiemann was a member of the Scientific Advisory Council "Biosafety research and monitoring" of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). He has been coordinating several BMBF- and EU-funded cluster projects on biosafety research. From 2000 to 2003 he was a member of the Scientific Committee on Plants of the European Commission, Health & Consumer Protection Directorate-General, and since 2003 he is a member of the Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms of the European Food Safety Authority. Since September 2004, Dr. Schiemann is President of the International Society for Biosafety Research. |
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