作者简介
GünterKahlisProfessorforPlantMolecularBiologyatFrankfurtUniversity,Germany.AfterhisPh.D.inplantbiochemistry,hespenttwoyearswithJoeVarner,MichiganStateUniversity,eastLansing,USA,andJamesBonner,CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology,Pasadena,USA.MainresearchareasarePlantgenomeanalysisTranscriptomeanalysesineukaryoticorganismsMutationdetection.GünterKahlcooperateswithaseriesofresearchinstitutionsthroughoutEurope,inJapan,theUSA,Israel,India,andLatinAmerica.HeservedinexpertmissionsforIAEA,FAOandUNESCOinmanycountriesandpresentlyisEditor-in-ChiefofPlantgenomeandSystemsBiology,andChiefScientificOfficerinGenXProGmbH,anSMElocatedattheFrankfurtInnovationCenterBiotechnology.Since1996KhalidMeksemisAssociateProfessorofGenomeBiotechnologyatSouthernIllinoisUniversity,USA.HegraduatedfromtheUniversityofCasablanca,Morocco,andjoinedthePlantMolecularandCellulargraduateprogramoftheUniversityParisXIwherehegraduatedwithhonorsin1990.KhalidMeksemgainedhisdoctorateinBotany,BiochemistryandGeneticsattheUniversityofCologneincollaborationwiththeMax-Planck-InstituteGermany.Hisresearchinterestcoversboth,structuralandfunctionalgenomics,andhislongtimeareaofinterestisthemoleculardissectionofplantdiseaseresistancemechanismstonematodesandfungi.KhalidMeksemisservingasEditor-in-ChiefofPlantGenomeandSystemsBiology,asAssociateEditoroftheInternationalJournalofPlantgenomics,andasreviewerfor?anumberofinternationalscientificjournalsaswellasforseveralgrantingagencies.
