AU: New R&D lead for BioConsortia
“We have recruited another strong and complementary asset to our global team. Andrew’s experience enables him to lead our research efforts in Auckland and help position our work within the context of the global microbial and seed treatment markets.”
Jacobs joins BioConsortia with an extensive history of research management. Most recently he held the position of Manager of Corporate Projects at ITEK Ventures Pty Ltd, an independent technology commercialization company associated with the University of South Australia. In this role he was able to apply corporate research management experience towards the university start-ups being funded and commercialized by ITEK.
During his tenure with ITEK, Jacobs was managing a collaboration between the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG) and Dow AgroSciences. He had been a Research Fellow at ACPFG since 2003, and was concurrently an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Adelaide in Australia. His research has focused on abiotic stress tolerance in cereals, aligning well with the current targets for BioConsortia.
Jacobs completed his PhD at the University of Adelaide with six months spent in Germany at The Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research. His PhD work culminated in the isolation of a novel gene for the formation of callose, leading to publication of the research in The Plant Cell. Since then Jacobs has published a number of other papers in the field of plant molecular and microbial science, has been invited to speak at international conferences as an expert, and holds two patents for plant systems.
For more information:
Jon Amdursky
BioConsortia, Inc.
Tel: +61 201-394-2476
Email: jamdursky@aol.com
www.bioconsortia.com