NAME:

Mats HANSSON

ADDRESS:

Carlsberg Laboratory, Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, Copenhagen V, DK-1799, Denmark

NATIONALITY:

Swedish

 

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION: 

 

1999 / Docent

Biochemistry, Lund University, Sweden

1994 / Ph.D.

Microbiology, Lund University, Sweden (Professor Lars Hederstedt, supervisor)
Thesis title:  "Tetrapyrrole biosynthesis in Bacillus subtilis" 

1990 / M.Sc.

Biology, Lund University, Sweden


 

POSITIONS/AFFILIATIONS: 

 

2008 -

Professor in Plant Physiology, Carlsberg Laboratory, Denmark

2007 - 2008

Professor in Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry, Lund University, Sweden

2003 - 2008

Research scientist in Enzymology employed by the Swedish Research Council. Located at the Department of Biochemistry, Lund University, Sweden

2005 - 2006

Guest researcher at Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA (host Professor Sabeeha Merchant)

2001

Guest researcher at Department of Biological Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia (host Professor Robert Willows)

1997 - 2002

Assiatant professor at the Department of Biochemistry, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

1995 - 1997

Postdoc at Department of Physiology, Carlsberg Laboratory, Copenhagen, Denmark (host Professor Diter von Wettstein)

  

RECOGNITION and AWARDS: 

 

2003 - 2008

 Research Scientist in Enzymology appointed by the Swedish Research Council

2005 - 2006 

Fulbright Sholarship (guest research at UCLA)

1995 - 1997

EMBO long term fellowship (postdoc at the Carlsberg Laboratory)

COMMITION OF TRUST:

2013 -

Board member of the Swedish Chemical Society (4000 acedemic and industrial members). Vice chairman 2005-2013. 

2003 - The Chemical Society in Lund (vice chairman 2003, chairman 2004-2008, cashier 2008-present) (400 members)

RECENT INVITED LECTURES:

 

2013

IPK Gatersleben, Germany (April)

James Hutton Institute, Dundee, UK (March)

Stanford University Medical School, California, USA (Jan)

Plant and Animal Genome XXI, San Diego, USA (Jan)

Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, USA (Jan)

2012

11th International Barley Genetic Symposium, Hangzhou, China (May)

Tetrapyrrole Discussion Group, Cambridge, UK (Jan)

2011

2011 North American Barley Researchers Workshop, Corvallis, Oregon, USA (June)

Dept of Microbiology, Bayreuth University, Germany (Feb)

2010

20th International Triciceae Mapping Initiative Meeting, Beijing, China (Sept)

Dept of System Biology, Danish Techniqal University, Copenhagen, Denmark (Aug)

2009

Celebration of the Gene 100 years, The Mendelian Society, Lund University, Sweden (Dec)

Dept of Genetics, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland (Sept)

Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany (April)

Center for Chemistry, Lund University, Sweden (March)

2008

9th Nordic Photosynthesis Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark (Oct)

Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, UK (Oct)

International Symposium on Induced Mutations in Plants, Vienna, Austria (Aug)

Gordon Research Conference on Chemistry and Biology of Tetrapyrroles, Newport, RI, USA (July)

Dept of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany (April)

 

 

REVIEW OF MY RESEARCH IN MEDIA AND TEXT BOOKS:
2012 Berlinske 29 Feb. 2012, Muteret byg blomstrer hurtigere end normalt byg.
2012 Jyllands-Posten, 28 Feb. 2012, Ølforskere har opdaget spaendende gen.
2012 Danske Ølentusiaster, 28 Feb. 2012, Ølforskere finder gen der kan få byg til at vokse hurtigare.
2012

Videnskab.dk, 28 Feb. 2012, Ølforskare finder gen der skal maette nogle af verdens fattige.

2010 Structure 18: 277-278, Putting metal in the middle.
2009 Science 324: 1012-1013, Stressed out over a stress hormone.
2009 Videnskab.dk, 19 March 2009 04:00, Øl-forskare jager muterade gener.
2002 Science 298: 325, All for one and one for all.
2001 Biochemistry. J. M. Berg, J. L. Tymoczko and L. Stryer, 5th edition, W. H. Freeman and Company, New York. Pages 213-214.