Meet the People behind ACGG
A multi-disciplinary team of experimented scientists and early-career researchers covering all areas of modern plant breeding research jointly supervises ACGG students in Germany and Australia. DFG-funded and associated students work on interrelated projects generating plant materials and datasets or developing and applying technologies to help accelerate genetic gain in various major and minor crops.
Leads & Admin
PhD Students
Gözde Yildiz
Associated postdoc, JLU
goezde.yildiz.akar@uni-giessen.de
Principal Investigators
Sarah Schiessl-Weidenweber
JLU, Crop Genetics & Stress Physiology
Associated Scientists
International Advisory Board
To ensure scientific excellence and global impact, ACGG is supported by an International Advisory Board of renowned experts from leading research institutions worldwide. The board provides critical feedback on our research progress, evaluates our training benchmarks, and helps bridge the gap between our research and the global plant breeding community.
Agnieszka Golicz
Phenotyping & Trait Physiology for Climate Adaptation
Greg Rebetzke
CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Canberra, Australia
Chief Research Scientist
Genomic Resource Development for Orphan/Minor Crops
Damaris Odeny
ICRISAT, Nairobi, Kenya
Principal Scientist
Applied Genomic/Marker-Assisted Selection in Operational Breeding Pipelines
Susanne Dreisigacker
CIMMYT, El Batán, Mexiko
Head, Wheat Molecular Breeding
Pangenomics & Genomic Prediction Infrastructure
Wubishet Bekele
Agriculture and Agri-Food, Ottawa, Canada
Adjunct Research Professor
Comparative & Evolutionary (Pan-)Genomics of Disease Resistance
Jacqueline Batley
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
ARC Laureate Fellow; Head of a plant genetics and genomics research group
Translation of Genomic Tools into Commercial Breeding
Amine Abbadi
NPZ Innovation GmbH, Hohenlieth/Kiel, Germany
Head of Research and Development
