Programme Committee
Prof. Dr. Klaus Ammann
Director Botanical Garden, University of Bern
Altenbergrain 21,
CH-3013 BERN, Switzerland
Tel. +41 (0)31 631 49 37
Fax +41 (0)31 631 49 93
mobile: +41 (0)79 429 70 62
klaus.ammann@ips.unibe.ch
Chairmen of the Programme Committee
Born December 6, 1940
Thesis on Vegetation History 1972, summa cum laude
Director of Botanical Garden, University of Bern since 1996
Prof. hon. University of Bern since 2000
Teaching:
Lecturing in Plant Systematics and Evolution, Biogeography
Lectures on Air Pollution Biomonitoring at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
Committees, among others:
- Chairman European Group of Plant Specialists, IUCN
- Steering Committee of PLANTA EUROPA
- Project coordinator and member of executive board Euro+Med, Red List of Threatened Plants of Europe
- Member of coordination group European Science Foundation:
AIGM, Risk assessment on transgenic crops - Biosafety Committee of the Government of Switzerland
- GMO Expert Group European Commission Directorate General JRC – IPTS
- Chairman of Section Biodiversity of European Federation of Biotechnology
- Editor in Chief (Ecology) of Environmental Biosafety Research
- Chairman of Biodiversity Section of European Federation of Biotechnology
Research Projects
Chemotaxonomy of macro-lichens, calibrated biomonitoring of air pollution with lichens, molecular systematics with lichens, ecological monitoring, ethnobotany in Jamaica, ecological monitoring in Bulgaria.
Ecological risk assessment of vertical gene flow in Switzerland
2 EU-Projects on Gene Flow and Plant Conservation of Europe
1. Gene Flow of Brassicaceae in Europe, coordinator Swiss participation
2. Euro+Med, coordinator work packages Atlas Florae Europaeae Helsinki, Finnland, Caryological Data Base Patras, Greece, European Red List and Website on Popularized Flora Europaea Contents, Botanical Garden, University of Bern, a joint venture with IUCN SSC Group European Plants, Planta Europa and the Council of Europe
2 Projects in collaboration with UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organisation:
a) Compendium on Risk Assessment Research
b) Global Initiative on Education in Biotechnology
1 Website Project www.bio-scope.org , in collaboration with Biolinx in Frankfurt .
