Barbara Hohn

Barbara Hohn ( born September 15, 1939 in Klagenfurt as Barbara Freiinger ) is an Austrian molecular biologist.

Life

From 1957 to 1962, she studied chemistry at the University of Vienna and subsequently conducted research at the Max Planck Institute for Virus Research in Tübingen; at the University of Tübingen, she was awarded his doctorate in 1967. As a postdoc, she did research at the universities of Yale and Stanford, and from 1971 at the Biozentrum, University of Basel. In 1978 she was a group leader at the local ( private ) Friedrich Miescher Institute. In parallel, it was from 1989 an associate professor of molecular genetics and from 1996 Associate Professor at the University of Basel. In 2004 she was retired.

Her research topics include the Agrobacterium tumefaciens.

In 2010 she was awarded the Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize. Hohn is a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences ( Math and Science class) and the Royal Society.

She is married to the molecular biologist Thomas Hohn and mother of two sons.

Publications (selection)

• Thomas Hohn: Activity of empty, head like particles for packaging of lambda DNA in vitro. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 71, 1974, p 2372 ff (online).
• With Kenneth Murray: Packaging recombinant DNA molecules into bacteriophage particles in vitro. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 74, 1977, page 3259 ff (online).