Ian T. Baldwin

Ian Thomas Baldwin ( * June 27, 1958 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American ecologist.

Academic Career

After studying biology and chemistry at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, from which he graduated in 1981 with a bachelor's degree in biology, earned his doctorate in 1989 in Baldwin chemical ecology at the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. His dissertation was titled Damage -induced alkaloids in wild tobacco. Subsequently, he was Assistant ( since 1989), Associate ( 1993 ) and Full Professor (from 1996) at the Department of Biology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. In 1996, he was founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, where he heads the Department of Molecular Ecology. He was appointed Honorary Professor at the Friedrich -Schiller- University of Jena in 1999. In 2002 he founded the International Max Planck Research School at the MPI in Jena.

In his scientific work, Baldwin is dedicated to the understanding of the genetic traits that allow plants to survive in nature. To achieve this goal, he has developed a molecular toolbox for the native tobacco Nicotiana attenuata ( coyote tobacco). Baldwin combined genomic and molecular genetic approaches with field studies on the identification and characterization of genes that play in interactions between plants, insects ( herbivores, pollinators ) and micro-organisms in their natural environment play a role.

Within the Max Planck Society, he is a big supporter of Open Access initiatives, the free access to scientific publications, a.

Honors and Awards

  • Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1991
  • Silverstein - Simeone Award from the International Society of Chemical Ecology 1998
  • Associate Member of the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (since 2001)
  • Tansley Lecture, British Ecological Society, 2009
  • European Research Council ( ERC) Advanced Grant 2011
  • Election as a member of the Leopoldina

Publications (selection )

  • Schultz, JC, Baldwin, IT ( 1982) Oak leaf quality declines in response to defoliation by gypsy moth larvae. Science, 217, 149-151. doi: 10.1126/science.217.4555.149
  • Karban, R., Baldwin, IT ( 1997) Induced responses to herbivory. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-42496-5
  • Kessler, A., Baldwin, IT ( 2001) Defensive function of herbivore -induced plant volatile emissions in nature. Science, 291 (5511), 2141-2144. doi: 10.1126/science.291.5511.2141
  • Kessler, A., Halitschke, R., Baldwin, IT ( 2004) Silencing the jasmonate cascade: Induced plant defenses and insect populations. Science, 305 (5684), 665-668. doi: 10.1126/science.1096931
  • Baldwin, IT, Halitschke, R., Paschold, A., Dahl, CC, Preston, CA ( 2006) Volatile signaling in plant -plant interactions: "talking trees" in the genomics era. Science, 311 (5762), 812-815. doi: 10.1126/science.1118446
  • Kessler, D., gases, K., Baldwin, IT ( 2008): Field experiments with Transformed plants reveal the sense of floral scents. Science, 321 (5893), 1200-1202. doi: 10.1126/science.1160072
  • Kessler, D., Diezel, C., Baldwin, IT ( 2010): Changing pollinators as a Means of escaping herbivores. Current Biology, 20, 237-242. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.11.071
  • Allmann, S., Baldwin, IT ( 2010): Insects betray Themselves in nature to predators by rapid Isomerization of green leaf volatiles. Science, 329, 1075-1078. doi: 10.1126/science.1191634
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