Holger Puchta

Prof. Dr. Holger Puchta

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    76131 Karlsruhe

Holger Puchta

October 1979 - September 1985 Study of biochemistry (Diplom) at the universities of Tübingen and Munich
October 1985 - October 1986 Diploma thesis on viroids in the group of Prof. Dr. H.L. Sänger at the Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried, Munich
November 1986 -September 1989 PhD thesis on viroids in the group of Prof. Dr. H.L. Sänger at the Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried, Munich
October 1989 -
July 1995 
Research Fellow in the group of Prof. Dr. B. Hohn at Friedrich Miescher-Institut, Basel, Switzerland
Research area: Homologous DNA recombination in plants
August 1995 -
August 2002 
Leader of the group "DNA recombination" at the Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK) Gatersleben, Germany
Research area: DNA recombination in plants
June 2000  Habilitation at the Martin-Luther University, Halle
September 2002 

Professor (chair Botany II) at the University of Karlsruhe (TH)
Associate Editor Plant Molecular Biology
Member of the Advisory Board Plant Journal