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 Dr. Joerg Bohlmann
Associate Professor
Biotechnology Laboratory
University of British Columbia
6174 University Boulevard
Vancouver, BC
V6T 1Z3
Genome BC Project Leader
Dr. Joerg Bohlmann was recruited to the University of British Columbia Biotechnology Laboratory, now the Michael Smith Laboratories, in 2000 as Assistant Professor for Plant and Tree Biotechnology. He also has academic appointments in the UBC Departments of Forest Sciences and Botany. He is associate faculty member in the UBC Wine Research Centre.
Dr. Bohlmann received his Ph.D. in 1995 from the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany). From 1995 until 1998, he was holding a Feodor-Lynen-Fellowship of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation to work with Dr. Rodney Croteau at the Institute of Biological Chemistry at Washington State University, Pullman (USA). From 1998 to 2000, Dr. Bohlmann was a junior group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena (Germany).
Since 1995, Dr. Bohlmann has established a research program on chemical defense mechanisms of forest trees, including conifers and poplar. Research in his laboratories includes programs in forestry genomics, natural product biochemistry, and molecular biology of plant defense. Dr. Bohlmann has won several national and international awards. He has given numerous invited lectures and seminars around the world. Dr. Bohlmann holds several patents from his research on plant and tree biotechnology.
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