Ralf Reski

Biography

Ralf Reski studied Biology, Chemistry and the Theory and Practice of Education at the Universities of Giessen and Hamburg. He was awarded his doctorate in Genetics in 1990 and received his postdoctoral lecture qualification in General Botany in 1994. From 1996 until 1999 he was a Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG). After all, it has been a long time since the beginning of the year. From 2001 until 2011 he was Director of Plant Biotechnology of the Center for Applied Biosciences (ZAB). He is a Principal Investigator (PI) of the Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine (SGBM), the Center for Biological Signalling Studies (BIOSS), both funded within the German Universities Excellence Initiative; and the Freiburg Initiative for Systems Biology (FRISYS) funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Since 2004 Ralf Reski is affiliated to the Ecole supérieur de Biotechnologie Strasbourg (ESBS). Ralf has been a member of the Supervisory Board of BioPro since 2003, an enterprise of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg. From 2007 until 2010 European Commissioner of the State of Baden-Württemberg and now European Commissioner. In March 2008, Ralf Reski was elected President of the German National Committee of Biology (DNK), which is the German National Committee of the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS), within the International Council for Science (ICSU)

Research Interest

Ralf Reski's main area of ​​research deals with genetics, proteins, metabolism and specificities in the cell development of moss plants, using the very efficient technique of homologous recombination for creating knockout mosses by gene targeting in a reverse genetics approach. Reski's research interests are in the fields of Systems Biology, Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology.