Prof. Dr. Georg Jander

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsPlant Biochemistry and Biophysics,Ecology and Biodiversity of Plants and Ecosystems
Keywordsplant, insect, genetics, biochemistry, metabolism
Honours and awards

2022: Fellow, American Society of Plant Biologists

2019: Sabbatical Fellowship, Binational Agricultural Research and Development Agency

2013: Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

2011: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Forschungspreis from the Humboldt Foundation

1996: NIH postdoctoral fellowship

1987: NSF graduate research fellowship

1987: Tau Bet Pi - engineering honor society

1983: National Merit Scholar

1983: Woodward Scholarship for engineering

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityIthaca
InstitutionCornell University
InstituteBoyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
Homepagehttps://btiscience.org/georg-jander/

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Ian T. BaldwinAbteilung Molekulare Ökologie, Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Ökologie, Jena
Start of initial sponsorship01/12/2011

Programme(s)

2011Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Jander is an internationally recognized expert in the field of chemical ecology. He has pioneered the synergistic application of quantitative genetics, metabolite profiling and insect behavior assays to identify novel plant genes and small molecules that contribute to natural variation in herbivore resistance. During his stay in Germany, he will investigate the intricacies of plant defense signaling networks through inactivation of gene families by site-directed mutagenesis and quantification of resulting changes in the herbivory-induced metabolome.

Publications (partial selection)

2013Lisa N. Mehils, Vinzenz Handrick, Gaetan Glauser, Hugues Barbier, Harleen Kaur, Meena M. Haribal, Alexander E. Lipka, Jonathan Gershenzon, Edward S. Buckler, Matthias Erb, Tobias G. Köllner, Georg Jander: Natural variation in maize aphid resistance is associated with 2,4-dihydroxy-7-methoxy-1,4-benzoxazin-3-one glucoside methyltransferase activity. In: Plant Cell, 2013, 2341-2355