Implication of the Seed Microbiota for Plant Health

Dr. Tomislav Cernava
12.09.2021

Dr. Tomislav Cernava is a tenure-track professor at Graz University of Technology (Austria) and a guest professor at Guizhou University (China). He is leading several national as well international research projects at the Institute of Environmental Biotechnology in Austria, where he obtained his PhD in 2015. In addition, he serves as associate editor for the internationally renowned journal Microbiome and other journals in the broader field of microbiology. Dr. Cernava’s research focus is on the plant microbiome, strategy development for targeted modulation of microbial communities, deciphering of host-microbe interactions, and the application of “meta-omics” techniques as an explorative tool in environmental microbiology. So far, he has authored more than 65 peer-reviewed publications, many of them in high-impact journals.

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Analyzing Microbes In Us And On Our Planet

Peer Bork, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c.a

12.08.2021

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Education

  • 09/1983 – 08/1988 Study of biochemistry, University of Leipzig, Biological Sciences (Diploma)
  • 09/1988 – 03/1990 PhD research student, University of Leipzig, Department of Biochemistry (Dr.rer.nat., summa cum laude in 1.5 years)
  • 09/1992 – 09/1995 Habilitation and teaching appointment at the Humboldt University in Berlin; Institute of Biology, Department of Theoretical Biophysics (Dr. habil.)

Professional Appointments

  • 04/1990 – 11/1991 Scientist at the Central Institute of Molecular Biology, Department of Bioinformatics, Berlin, (project leader since Jan. 1991)
  • 11/1991 - Project leader, since 1995 visiting group leader at the Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Department of Bioinformatics
  • 11/1991 - Visiting scientist, since 1995 group leader, EMBL, Heidelberg site (HD)
  • 06/1999 - Senior scientist, EMBL, HD
  • 07/2001 - Head of Unit (currently with C. Müller), Structural and Computational Biology at EMBL, HD with responsibility for 14 research groups (ca 160 researchers)
  • 11/2011 - 07/2020 Strategic head of bioinformatics at EMBL, HD, coordinating all bioinformatics activities at EMBL, HD
  • 07/2020 - Director, EMBL, HD (Scientific Activities)

Selected publication statistics
Co-authored >650 scientific publications, of which >80 in Nature, Science or Cell; >60 papers with >1000 citations and an H-factor of 219 in Google Scholar (181 in ISI) with >280.000 citations (Oct. 2021). Among the world’s most cited researchers in life sciences according to ISI and Google Scholar rankings.

Selected Honors and Awards 2008: Nature Mentorship Award, Laudation by Germany's Research Minister;
2009: Royal Society and Académie des Sciences Microsoft Award;
2011 and 2015: 2 ERC advanced research grants on human gut microbiome;
2014: Honorary Prof. Univ. Würzburg;
2016: Felix Burda award for cancer microbiome research;
2017: Honorary doctorate Univ. Utrecht;
2018, 2019: Honorary Profs. Fudan Univ. and Heidelberg Univ.;
2021: ISCB Senior Scientist award, The Novozymes Prize for outstanding research towards biotechnological innovations.

Elected memberships
2000: EMBO; 2014: Leopoldina (German Academy of Sciences); 2018: Academia Europaea
External funding
Research grants, collaborations, donations and crowd sourcing with a total value of >200 Mio Euro (>30 Mio Euro for the group) within the last 20 years.

Outreach and training
Over many years: >25 lectures given p.a.; on av. 2x (co-)organizer of conferences/ program committee member p.a.; member of thesis advisory committees (approx. 3-4 Phd students/year).

Intellectual property and business development
Currently holding 15 patents and patent applications. Cofounder (and advisor in initial phases) of 5 companies: i) Lion Bioscience AG (1997), publicly traded since 2000, at peak times a market capitalization of >$1Bill, ii) CellZome AG (2000), acquired by GSK in 2012 for $100Mio, iii) Anadys Pharm. Inc. (2000), publicly traded since 2004, in 2011 acquired by Roche for $230Mio, iv) Biobyte solutions GmbH (2008), a profit-making Heidelberg-based bioinformatics company and v) Enterome Inc. (2011), a Paris-based gut microbiome company, having raised >$100 Mio so far.

Group (alumni) statistics (since 1997, for details see www.bork.embl.de)
Current group: 25 members; 45 former postdocs and 10 former PhD students (totaling to almost 70% of alumni) have now professorships or group leader positions in Europe, America or Asia.