Confirmed speaker

Christian Bachem

Scientist

 

Christian Bachem received his first degree in 1980 from Bonn University, Germany, reading Agriculture. His PhD was completed at the Max Planck Institute, Cologne in 1986 in the framework of a German/Hungarian project studying Plant-symbiotic interactions. After post-doctorial studies into plant mitochondria (1987-1990) in Edinburgh, UK, he joined the plant biotech company Keygene (Wageningen, The Netherlands) where he was project manager for potato. From 1994 till 2021, Christian Bachem has been teaching and conducting research at the University Wageningen, Laboratory of Plant Breeding in The Netherlands. His main scientific interest is in the structural and functional genomic analysis of potato. He also is PI in several large multipartite research projects on national, European and international level and is an active member of academic organisations such as Eucarpia, EPSO, JAPS and SOL (Co-Chair). He currently holds a position as guest scientist at WUR where he supervises 4 PhD students and two post-docs. In July 2021 he began as Senior Scientist, at the potato hybrid breeding company Solynta. He also holds several appointments as honorary professor universities in China and the UK.