Barbara Hohn
Barbara Hohn ForMemRS is an Austrian molecular biologist, particularly known for her research into the Agrobacterium tumefaciens.
Early life
She was born Barbara Freiinger, in Klagenfurt, Austria. From 1957 to 1962, she studied chemistry at the University of Vienna and then worked at the Max Planck Institute for Virus Research at the University of Tübingen, where she received her doctorate in 1967. Her PhD thesis supervisor was Professor Friedrich Freksa.Career
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.Hohn is a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society.