Dr Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid joined the GMI as a Senior Group Leader in 2004, following a very successful career in Switzerland.Dr Mittelsten Scheid was Interim Science Director of the GMI from 2007-2009. Research Associate: Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland, 1992-2003. Laboratory: Prof. Jerzy Paszkowski. Interim Scientific Director: Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, 2007-2009.

Epigenetic Changes in Plants, Genetics, Developmental Biology, Cell Biology