Fellow elected to German National Academy of Sciences
Pioneering plant scientist ‘humbled’ by her achievement
Professor Uta Paszkowski, a Fellow of St John’s College, has been elected a member of the Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences.
Professor Paszkowski is leader of the Cereal Symbiosis group at the Crop Science Centre – a coalition between the University of Cambridge, Department of Plant Sciences and the National Institute of Agricultural Botany Trust (NIAB) – and College Director of Studies and Lecturer in Plant Sciences. She described her election as ‘humbling’.
The Leopoldina originated in 1652 as a classical scholarly society and now has 1,600 members from almost all branches of science.
In 2008 it was appointed as the German National Academy of Sciences and has two major objectives: the first is to represent the German scientific community internationally, and the second is to provide policymakers and the public with science-based advice.
Professor Paszkowski’s research aims at the elucidation of molecular mechanisms underlying the development of the AM symbioses and the benefit it confers to cereal phosphate nutrition. Her team established rice and maize as monocotyledonous models for the study of molecular genetics of AM symbioses and has made seminal contributions to the field.
She was awarded membership of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) in 2020 in recognition of her remarkable scientific achievements and pioneering research.
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Published 19/5/2023