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!!!Blanz, Paul


~* 23. 12. 1949, Munich

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__O.Univ.-Prof. Dr.rer.nat. Paul Blanz__

Botanik

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Institut  für Pflanzenwissenschaften\\
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz\\
Holteigasse 6 \\
A-8010 Graz \\
Österreich\\
Tel.: ++43-316-380-5694, Fax: ++43-316-380 9883\\ 
Email: paul.blanz@uni-graz.at\\

 
!Curriculum Vitae

__Born:__

23. December 1949. Munich (Germany)

 
__Education:__

1970–1974 Study of Biology at the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich 

1974-1977 Dissertation (Ph.D.), Dr. rer. nat. (Botany) at Eberhard Karl University, Tübingen 

1985 Habilitation and Venia legendi (Botany and Microbiology) at Eberhard Karl University, 
Tübingen 

__Professional experiences:__

1977–1986 University assistant at Eberhard Karl University, Tübingen
 
1986-1993 Professorship at the University Bayreuth
 
1993- Full Professorship at Karl-Franzens-University Graz 

__External stays:__

8/1979–9/1980 Research assistant at University of Illinois at Urbana/champaign, USA, with Prof. Dr. Carl R. Woese

 
__Present Field of Research:__

Taxonomy of Central European rust fungi on the basis of morphological, ecological and molecular 
studies 2


__Teaching activities__:

Systematic Botany, Mycology, Evolution, Plant Pathology, Biotechnology and Gentechnology in Plants 
and Fungi, Molecular Biology of Fungi 

__Special Teaching__: \\

3-4/1986 Teaching the course "Systematics and Evolution of Basidiomyce-tous 
Yeasts" together with Prof. Dr. F. Oberwinkler and Dr. G. Deml at 
Oeiras/Portugal (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation)

8/1988 Teaching the course "Molecular Methods in Yeast Taxonomy" together with 
Clete P. Kurtzman (Peoria, Illinois), M.A. Lachance (University of Western 
Ontario) und T. Nakase (Japan Collection of Microorganisms, Riken) at 
Oeiras/Portugal (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation)
 
1-4/1992 Guest professorship at the Institute for Applied Microbiology of the Tokyo 
University; cooperation with Prof. Dr. Junta Sugiyama; lectures at the Tokyo 
University, at RIKEN in Wakoshi/Saitama, at the Hiroshima University, at 
the Shiitake-Institute in Tottori, and at the Institute of Fermentation in Osaka 


__Scientific Community: __ \\

Biological und microbiological institutes in Tokyo, Tsukuba, 
Osaka, Tottori, Sendai and Sapporo giving lectures
 
8/1985 Cooperation with Dr. Clete Kurtzman at the Northern Regional Research 
Laboratoires of the US Governments for Agriculture in Peoria/ Illinois, USA 
Reassociation of eukaryontic DNA 

3-4/1989 Participation at the UCLA-Symposium "Molecular and cellular biology of 
yeasts and filamentous fungi" in Steamboat Springs, Colorado; lectures at 
the Universities of California at Davis and Berkeley, lecture at the University 
of Oregon at Corvallis
 
2-4/1990 Guest in the Lab of Prof. Dr. John Taylor at the University of California in 
Berkeley; DNA amplification by PCR 

8/1990 Treasurer of the 4th International Mycological Congress in Regensburg 

1990-1994 Treasurer of the Section Mycology of the German Botanical Society 

10-12/1991 Guest in the Lab of Prof. Dr. John Taylor at the University of California in 
Berkeley; DNA isolation from fungi and PCR 

9/1991 Organization and handling of the Annual Meeting of the Section Mycology of 
the German Botanical Society in Bayreuth 3

1992-2008 Member of the Founding Council of the Society for Mycology and Lichenology; Committee member 

5/1995- Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 

9/1995 – 9/1999 Treasurer of the Austrian Society of Genetic and Gene Technology (Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Genetik und Gentechnik) 

4/1996-12/2012 Member of the Commission for Interdisciplinary and Ecological Studies of 
the Austrian Academy of Sciences 

2002- Member of the Editorial Board of Mycological Progress
 
7/2005 Member of the program committee of the XVIIth International Botanical Congress in Vienna 

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!!Ehrenamtliche Mitarbeit am Austria-Forum als Mitglied des Editorial Boards
Paul Blanz hat maßgeblich am Aufbau der Flora mitgewirkt, zahlreiche einschlägige Bücher in das Austria-Forum gebracht und Beiträge verfasst:
!Bücher die durch ihn eingebaut werden konnten
* [Mitteleuropäische Pflanzenwelt|web-books/mitteleuropaische1957]
* [Österreichs alllgemeine Baumzucht, 1792|web-books/osterreichsal00de1792kfu]
!Beiträge
* [Bildtafeln von Otto Wilhelm Thome|AEIOU/Thome,_Otto_Wilhelm]
* [Genmais: Problem oder Lösung|Wissenssammlungen/Essays/Naturwissenschaften/Genmais]