Curriculum Vitae
George Michael Coupland
| Date of birth: | 20 December 1959 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Current position: | Director of Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research |
| Current address: | Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research Carl-von-Linné Weg 10 D-50829 Cologne Germany |
| E-mail address: | coupland@mpipz.mpg.de |
| Telephone: | 00 49 221 50 62 205 |
| Fax: | 00 49 221 50 62 207 |
| Web site: | http://www.mpipz.mpg.de |
University Education
| 1977 - 1984 | Glasgow University, Department of Microbiology - Graduated with First Class Honours in Microbiology |
| 1981 - 1984 | Edinburgh University, Department of Molecular Biology, Ph.D. with Professor Neil Willetts. Awarded a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology in December 1984 - Title of thesis: The transposable elements and conjugation system of the IncN plasmid R46 |
Post-Doctoral Experience
| 1985 - 1988 | Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne and Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne - Received a Royal Society European Exchange Fellowship and an EMBO long-term Fellowship to work as a post-doctoral fellow with Professor Peter Starlinger |
Tenured positions
| 1989 - 2001 | Research group leader at the Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge, UK In March 1990 moved with the Institute to the Cambridge Laboratory, John Innes Centre, Norwich. |
| 2001 - | In January 2001 appointed as a Director of the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne |
External appointments and Honours
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Honorary Lecturer at the University of East Anglia, 1993-2001 Elected foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 2012 Thomson Reuter Highly Cited Researcher 2015 – present. Senior Editor of The Plant Cell 2016 – present. |
Publications
A complete publication list is available at Google Scholar.