Prof. Dr. Boas Pucker

Boas Pucker is leading the research group Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics as professor at TU Braunschweig. Boas obtained his doctoral degree at the Faculty of Biology at Bielefeld University (Germany), studying plant genomes and gene functions. After a short transitional postdoc in the Kraemer lab at Ruhr-University-Bochum (Germany), where he worked on plant genome assembly, Boas moved to the University of Cambridge (UK) as a postdoctoral fellow. Here, Boas joined the Brockington lab to investigate the complex evolution of anthocyanins and betalains in the Caryophyllales. Now, his research group at TU Braunschweig is working on the elucidation of plant biosynthesis pathways based on genomic and transcriptomic data.