Background
Hohn, Barbara Leonore was born on September 15, 1939 in Klagenfurt, Austria. Daughter of Walter and Liesl (Wohlfarth) Freiinger.
chemist university professor molecular biologist
Hohn, Barbara Leonore was born on September 15, 1939 in Klagenfurt, Austria. Daughter of Walter and Liesl (Wohlfarth) Freiinger.
Diploma, University Vienna, Austria, 1962. Postgraduate, Max Planck Institute, Tübingen, 1967. Doctor of Philosophy, University Tübingen, 1967.
Postgraduate, Yale University, 1968. Postgraduate, Stanford University, 1970. Postgraduate, Basel (Switzerland) University, 1977.
Postgraduate, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, 1985.
As a postdoc, she did research at the Universities of Yale and Stanford, and in 1971 at the Biozentrum, University of Basel. In 1978, she became a group leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute. From 1989, Hohn was Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics and in 1996 Adjunct Professor at the University of Basel.
She retired in 2004.
Her research topics included the Agrobacterium tumefaciens.
Member International Society Plant Molecular Biology (board directors 1993-1996), European Molecular Biology Organisation, Academia Europaea (founding member), Swiss National Research Council.
Married Thomas Hohn, November 17, 1962. Children: Andreas, Michael.