Wolfgang Busch
Director, Plant Molecular And Cellular Biology Laboratory
California, United States
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Top SchoolWolfgang Busch is a plant biologist and research leader who directs the Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory at the Salk Institute and serves as Executive Director of the Harnessing Plants Initiative, a pioneering program that engineers plant traits for enhanced carbon sequestration. With over eight years in senior roles at Salk and a trajectory from Duke and the Max Planck Institute to the Gregor Mendel Institute, he combines deep expertise in root genetics and systems-level plant biology with translational ambitions to mitigate climate change. He holds the Hess Chair in Plant Science, is an adjunct professor at UC San Diego, and has authored more than 80 papers in top journals, reflecting a strong record of high-impact discovery. Unusually for a lab head, he has co-founded an applied venture (Cquesta) alongside his academic leadership, signaling a rare blend of fundamental science, organizational stewardship, and entrepreneurship focused on measurable carbon drawdown.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoc, Biology, General, Postdoc, Biology, General at Duke UniversityDiploma, Biology (Genetics, Biochemistry, Microbiologie), Diploma, Biology (Genetics, Biochemistry, Microbiologie) at University of Tübingen
Github Skills (5)
tricks10
documentation6
leafletjs4
addon3
ckeditor2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
WolfgangBusch/access_control
May 2018 - Nov 2022
Kontrolle des Zugriffs auf Artikel und Mediendateien
Contributions:128 commits, 145 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
WolfgangBusch/url_path_rewrite
Nov 2017 - Jan 2021
Contributions:70 commits, 73 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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