Jonathan Gershenzon Explained

Jonathan Gershenzon
Nationality:American
Birth Date:1955
Spouse:Kimberly Falk
Children:Two daughters
Awards:German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Fields:Biochemistry of secondary plant metabolites

Jonathan Gershenzon (born 1955) is an American biochemist.

Scientific career

After studying biology as an undergraduate at the University of California in Santa Cruz, Gershenzon received his PhD in botany from the University of Texas in 1984. From 1985 until 1997 he worked as a scientist at the Institute for Biological Chemistry, Washington State University in Pullman. Since 1997 he is a director and scientific member at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, where he heads the department of biochemistry.[1] He was appointed honorary professor at Friedrich Schiller University Jena in 1999.He is married to Kimberly Falk and is the father of Camille and Julia Gershenzon.

Gershenzon studies the biochemistry of secondary plant metabolites, their mode of action on herbivores, the regulation of secondary metabolisms in plants and the evolution of pathways.[2] Most of the work in his department focuses on two major groups of plant defenses: glucosinolates and terpenoids.

Awards and honors

Selected publications

External links

Webpage of the Department of Biochemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.ice.mpg.de MPI for Chemical Ecology Website
  2. http://www.mpg.de/1228909/brassicaceae_enzyme_origin Production of Mustard Oils: On the Origin of An Enzyme
  3. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.338.6111.1166 AAAS Members Elected as Fellows
  4. https://www.leopoldina.org/mitgliederverzeichnis/mitglieder/member/Member/show/jonathan-gershenzon/ Member page at https://www.leopoldina.org
  5. https://www.ice.mpg.de/477498/Jonathan-Gershenzon-elected-to-EMBO-membership Jonathan Gershenzon elected to EMBO membership
  6. https://chemecol.org/awards/the-isce-silver-medal-award/ The ISCE Silver Medal Award