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Prof. Jon Hughes

 

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Funktionen:
  • Universitätsprofessor
  • Leiter und Geschäftsführer des Instituts für Pflanzenphysiologie
Telefon & Telefax:
+49/0 641 99 35430 (Büro)
+49/0 641 99 35431 (Sekr.)
+49/0 641 99 35429 (Fax)
E-Mail & Homepage:
jon.hughes@uni-giessen.de
Homepage
Anschrift:
Pflanzenphysiologie
Zeughaus
Senckenbergstr. 3
D35390 Giessen

 

 

 

Publications (click here for list)

I have published nearly a hundred peer-reviewed papers (including one in Nature (and a recent one in Nature Plants), one in Science and seven in PNAS) which have been cited nearly 3000 times in addition to various invited reviews and book chapters. My Hirsch Index is 38.

Research interests

 

Photobiology, structural biology of photoreceptors, light signal transduction, plant molecular genetics

 

Curriculum vitae

Name: Jonathan Elliss HUGHES

Date of Birth: 3 January 1957   Place of Birth: Cardiff, UK   Citizenship: British/German

Work address: Pflanzenphysiology, Justus Liebig University, Senckenbergstr. 3, D35390 Giessen, Germany.

Tel.: (+49)/(0) 6419935430   Fax: (+49)/(0) 6419935429   email: jon.hughes@uni-giessen.de

Present position: Professor of Plant Physiology, JLU Giessen.

Additional responsibilities: Business Director and teaching Coordinator, Institute for Plant Physiology, JLU Giessen

 

Education:

· 1978 B.Sc. London University (Botany & Zoology, with Honours)

· 1983 Ph.D. Nottingham University (Plant Physiology - "Natural daylight and the simulation of its effects upon stomata")

· 1998 Habilitation. Free University of Berlin (Plant Physiology - "Molekulare und physiologische Ansätze zum Phytochromsystem")

 

Positions:

· 1979-83 Postgraduate Research Student with C. Black, Plant Physiology, Nottingham University and H. Smith, Botany, Leicester University, UK.

· 1983-85 Royal Society Exchange Fellow, University of Freiburg, Germany.

· 1985-87 EU Senior Research Fellow with G. Link, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.

· 1987-90 Research Associate with L. H. Pratt, Department of Botany, University of Georgia, USA.

· 1990-5 Research Associate, Plant Physiology, Free University of Berlin, Germany.

· 1996-8 Habilitation Fellow, Plant Physiology, Free University of Berlin, Germany.

· 1999-2000 Research Associate, Crystallography, Free University of Berlin, Germany.

· 2000 Research Associate, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany.

· 2000- Professor and Head of Department, Plant Physiology, University of Giessen, Germany.

 

Competitive awards:

· Ministry of Agriculture, Vacation Research Student (Jodrell Lab, Kew, London; 1977)

· Royal Society / Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Research Fellow (Freiburg, 1983-85)

· Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, research support (Freiburg, 1984)

· EU Biotechnology Directorate, Senior Research Fellow (Bochum, 1985-87)

· Forschungsnachwuchskommision (FNK), research support (Berlin, 1994-96)

· Monbusho, 3 year international collaborative support (with M. Wada, Tokyo, 1995-7)

· DFG Habilitation Fellowship. (Hu702/1, Berlin, 1996-98)

· DFG research support (with W. Saenger, Institute for Crystallography, FU Berlin, 1999-2000)

· DFG research support, Sonderforschungsbereich 498 / B2 (with T. Lamparter and N. Krauss, FU Berlin, 2000-2)

· DFG research support (Hu702/2, with T. Lamparter, FU Berlin / JLU-Giessen; 2001-4)

· Volkswagen Foundation (with W .Gärtner (MPI Mülheim), J. Matysik & J. Lugtenburg (University of Leiden, NL), 2004-2011)

· DFG research support (Hu702/5, JLU-Giessen; 2006-2018)

· DFG research support (Hu702/6 and /9, with L.-O.Essen (Marburg), JLU-Giessen; 2007-2015)

· DFG research support (Hu702/8, with J. Matysik (Leipzig), JLU-Giessen; 2012-2019)

· DFG research support (Sfb1098/B8 Berlin/JLU-Giessen; 2017-2023)

· DFG research support (Hu702/12, with C. Song (Leipzig), JLU-Giessen; 2019-2022)