Thomas Jacobs
VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, BE
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Biography
Thomas Jacobs obtained his PhD from the University of Georgia. There he developed several molecular tools for soybean biotechnology. For his postdoc, he moved in 2014 at the Boyce Thompson Institute, where he started developing technology around CRISPR screens in plants. In 2016, he started the Plant Genome Editing group at the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology. His group is focused on developing easy-to-use genome editing systems for all kinds of plant species, specifically focused on making large-scale gene knockouts and base editing.