John Jacobs is an Expert Scientist in the Genomics group of the Trait Research organization of Bayer Crop Science . Located in Ghent, Belgium, John has been with Bayer and predecessor companies since 1999. During his career at Bayer, John has been involved in the development of genomic tools, hybrid systems, and yield traits for cotton, rice, and oilseeds and, more recently, wheat.
Read his interview here
On 18 July 2014, the IWGSC published in the international journal Science a draft sequence of the bread wheat genome. The chromosome-based draft provides new insight into the structure, organization, and evolution of the large, complex genome of the world’s most widely grown cereal crop.
- John Jacobs John Jacobs is an Expert Scientist in the Genomics group of the Trait Research organization of Bayer Crop Science. Located in Ghent, Belgium, John...
- Feuillet presentation, Philadelphia, 12 September 2016 Catherine Feuillet, Head of Trait Research, Bayer CropScience R&D and IWGSC Board member presented the Bayer wheat strategy and the IWGSC stor...
- IWGSC Newsletter – April to August 2016 Welcome to the IWGSC newsletter No2/2016
- Appels presentation, Cambridge, 6 July 2016 IWGSC Leadership team member Rudi Appels presentated the IWGSC perspective on the generation of genomics resources for wheat beyond the reference...
- Wheat Sequencing Consortium Releases Key Resource to the Scientific Community Following the January 2016 announcement of the production of a whole genome assembly for bread wheat, the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Co...
13 June 2016 - Wheat Sequencing Consortium Releases Key Resource to the Scientific Community
Following the January 2016 announcement of the production of a whole genome assembly for bread wheat, the IWGSC, having completed quality control, is now making this breakthrough resource available for researchers via the IWGSC wheat sequence repository at URGI-INRA-Versailles, France.
In January 2016, the IWGSC awarded three Outstanding Leadership Awards.
Jan Dvorak and Ming-Cheng Luo were both awarded an IWGSC Outstanding Leadership Award in recognition and appreciation of their leadership in completing the reference sequence for the Ae. tauschii – the progenitor of wheat D genome.
John Jacobs and Bayer CropScience (BSC) were awarded an IWGSC Outstanding Leadership Award in recognition and appreciation of their leadership for advancing significantly the IWGSC efforts to complete the reference sequence of the bread wheat genome.
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