Research Activities and Assignments:

• Environmental impacts of plants obtained by modern biotechnology
• Monitoring of biotech plants
• Regulatory regimes and evaluation of applications for release into the environment and placing on the market of genetically modified organisms

Memberships and Editorial Boards:

• Associate Editor Frontiers in Plant Biotechnology
• Editorial Board Agronomie
• International Society for Biosafety Research - ISBR (Secretary) [www.isbr.info]
• European Plant Science organisation - EPSO (Co-Chair of the Agricultural Technologies Working Group) [epsoweb.org]
• IOBC-WPRS-Arbeitsgruppe - Moderne Biotechnologie im integrierten Pflanzenbau (Member) [www.iobc-wprs.org]
• American Society for the Advancement of Science - AAAS (Member)
• Verband Deutscher Ingenieure - VDI (Member)
• Bund/Länder-Arbeitsgemeinschaft Gentechnik (Member)
• BfR-Kommission für genetisch veränderte Lebens- und Futtermittel (Member)

Publications in the Julius Kühn-Institut