Ben Scheres

Bernardus Johannes Godefridus Scheres (Ben) Scheres (born 10 July 1960 in Echt) is a Dutch developmental biologist. He is Professor of Plant Developmental Biology at Wageningen University.[1]

Ben Scheres (2006)

Scheres studied phytopathology at Wageningen University, where he received his doctorate in 1990. After a post-doctoral period at the Laboratory of Genetics in Ghent, he became a lecturer at the University of Utrecht, where he became Professor of Plant Developmental Biology in 1999 and Professor of Molecular Genetics in 2005.

Scheres studies the developmental biology of plants and compares them to that of animals, discovering many similarities. He used the thale cress as a test plant. Among other things, he discovered the role of stem cells in the growth and shape development of roots. He specifically switched off individual cells with a laser and blocked individual genes in order to explore their role in development.[2]

In 2006 he received the Spinoza Prize.[3] He received the prize for young chemists from the Dutch research organization NWO.[4] In 2004 he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. In 2000 he received the Siron Pelton Prize from the American Botanical Society. In 2017 he was elected to the European Molecular Biology Organization.

References
  1. Loreti, Elena; Striker, Gustavo (2021). Plant Responses to Hypoxia. MDPI AG. p. 54. ISBN 9783036501482. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
  2. "Scientists shed new light on fundamental hundred-year-old question". 24 September 2018. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
  3. "Q & A Ben Scheres" (PDF). Cell Press. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
  4. "Prof. dr. ir. B.J.G. (Ben) Scheres" (in Dutch). NWO. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
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