Group Leader

Univ. Prof. Dr. Erwin Heberle-Bors

Curriculum vitae
 
July 19, 1947 Born in Kirchheim/Teck, Germany
1967-69          Military service, Lieutenant, airborne artillery 1969 - 1976   Studies of biology at University Stuttgart-Hohenheim and Free University of Berlin
1977 - 82       Assistant professor at the Institute of Plant Physiology and Cell Biology of the Free University of Berlin
Oct 1981        PhD (Doktor of Natural Sciences)
1983 - 84       Post-doc at the Institute of Applied Microbiology, Prof. Hermann Katinger, of the University of Agriculture and Forestry, Vienna
1985               Post-doc at the Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland, with Ingo Potrykus
1986               Group leader at the Institute of Applied Microbiology
1987               Leader of the plant genetics group at the newly founded Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Vienna           May 1987 Habilitation at the University of Vienna in plant genetics
Feb1989       Austrian Citizenship, maintaining the German July 1989      Professor for plant genetics at the Institute for Microbiology and Genetics of the University of Vienna
July 1992      Move of the institute to the new Vienna Biocenter
 
Memberships: Austrian Genetic Engineering Committtee, Austrian Society of Genetics und Genetic Engineering (chairman of Vienna Section), Austrian Biochemical Socienty, Austrian Society of Biotechnology, (German) Society of Developmental Biology, International Society of Plant Tissue Culture, International Society for Plant Molecular Biology, International Society for Sexual Plant Reproduction, Eucarpia, Rotary Wien-West. European Plant Science Organisation.
 
EU-projects: Vice chairman of European COST-Action 824 "Gametic Embryogenesis", coordinator of EU-BIOTEC project "Stress-induced microspore embryogenesis" (Framework 4), member of EU TMR project "Response of yeast and plants to osmotic stress" (FW4), EU BIOTEC "Arabidopsis Genome Project" (FW4), EU Genomics Project „Plant Cell Cycle Consortium (FW5), Cell Factory project „Hybtech“.