Nils Stein

Nils Stein earned his PhD in Genetics at University of Hohenheim (Stuttgart, Germany) in 1997. He worked as a postdoc (1998-2001) in the laboratory of Beat Keller, University of Zurich, Switzerland and isolated a leaf rust resistance gene from hexaploid wheat via positional cloning in a closely related diploid wheat species. He moved to IPK Gatersleben in 2001, initially as lab-manager and since 2007 as leader of the group Genome Diversity of the Genebank department.

The main focus of his research is structural and comparative genome analysis in Triticeae species, mainly barley (Hordeum vulgare). Nils is co-coordinator of the European Triticeae Genomics Initiative (ETGI) and since 2008 he coordinates the International Barley Genome Sequencing Consortium (IBSC).