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Experto en la Seguridad de la Biotecnología (EXP)
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published: 12 feb. 2016 last updated: 05 feb. 2018
Información general
Perfil del experto
1993-1996 Ph.D. Student: Institute for Genebiological Research, Berlin
1996-1997 Postdoc: Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Golm (Potsdam)
1997-1999 Higher Scientific Offices IACR Rothamsted, Harpenden, UK
1999-2005 Senior Postdoc: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Golm (Potsdam)
2005-today Scientific officer: BVL Berlin, Unit 403: Deliberate Release and Placing on the Market

As scientific officer in the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) since 2005, I am regularly involved in risk assessment on applications for deliberate release and applications for placing on the market of LMOs according to Directive 2001/18/EC and Regulation (EC) 1829/2003.
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- Persona: Dr. Georg Leggewie | BCH-CON-DE-254005-4
Persona:
Dr. Georg Leggewie
Scientific officer, Genetic Engineering and other Biotechnological Processes
Teléfono: +49 30 18 444-40303,
Fax:
Correo electrónico: georg.leggewie@bvl.bund.de,
Sitio web:
Organización relacionada
Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL)
Organismo gubernamental (nacional/federal)
1965
  • Alemán
Información sobre el empleo actual
German Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL)
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Organismo gubernamental (nacional/federal)
Genetic Engineering
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2005-01
Organismo gubernamental (nacional/federal)
As scientific officer in the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) since 2005, I am regularly involved in risk assessment on applications for deliberate release and applications for placing on the market of LMOs according to Directive 2001/18/EC and Regulation (EC) 1829/2003.
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Experiencia laboral
  • Alemania
  • Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte
Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Golm, Potsdam (MPIMP)
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Department Willmitzer
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1999-01
2005-01
Instituto académico o de investigación
Postdoc, thereby experience in all fields of molecular techniques, biochemical analysis and LMO handling.
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Educación posterior a la escuela secundaria A. Educación formal
Primer diploma
M.Sc. in biology
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University of Heidelberg
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1987-01
1993-01
Segundo diploma (por ej., Máster en Microbiología)
Ph.D. in Natural Sciences
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Humboldt University Berlin
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1993-01
1996-01
B. Otras cualificaciones profesionales
  • Molecular biology, risk assessment of LMO
Esferas de especialización
  • Inocuidad de los alimentos
  • Evaluación del riesgo ambiental
Publicaciones
  • - Rausch, C., Daram, P., Brunner, S., Jansa, J., Laloi, M., Leggewie, G., Amrhein N. and Bucher M. (2001) A phosphate transporter expressed in arbuscule-containing cells in potato, Nature 414:462-466
  • - Bartsch, D., Buhk, H.-J., Engel, K.-H., Ewen, C., Flachowsky, G., Gathmann, A., Heinze, P., Koziolek, C., Leggewie, G., Meisner, A., Neemann, G., Rees, U., Scheepers, A., Schmidt, S., Schulte, E., Sinemus, K., Vaasen A. (contributors in alphabetical order) (2009) BEETLE report, Long-term effects of genetically modified (GM) crops on health and the environment (including biodiversity): prioritization of potential risks and delimitation of uncertainties. German Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety, BLaU-Umweltstudien and Genius GmbH. 133 pp.
  • - Kahrmann, J., Bömeke, O., Leggewie, G. (2017) Aged GMO legislation meets new genome editing techniques. EurUP 15(2):176-182.
Dominio de idiomas*
  • Alemán
Idioma Nivel
excellent
good
Cualquier otra información pertinente
Nomination Type
Roster of Experts Open-ended Online Expert Forum on RA&RM
Birth Place
Germany
Other Publications

- Mogen, B.D., MacDonald, M.H., Leggewie, G., Hunt, A.G., (1992) Several distinct types of sequence elements are required for efficient mRNA 3’ end formation in a pea rbcS gene. Mol. Cell. Biol. 12:5406-5414.
- Riesmeier, J.W., Leggewie, G., Hirner, B., Willmitzer, L., and Frommer, W.B. (1994) Role and function of sucrose transporters from higher plants. J. Cell. Biochem. Supplement 18, partA:120
- Riesmeier, J.W., Rink, U., Laloi, M., Leggewie, G., Kwart, M., Tretheway, R., Kossmann, J., and Willmitzer, L. (1996) The physiological role and regulation of photoassimilate and nutrient transport across biomembranes with special emphasis on transgenic potato plants. In: Regulation and manipulation of starch and sucrose metabolism in plants. (Y Nakamura, Ed.) NIAR/COE International Symposium, Tsukuba, Japan, November 11-12, 1996. pp. 71-74.
- Leggewie, G., Willmitzer, L., and Riesmeier, J.W. (1997) Two cDNAs from potato are able to complement a phosphate uptake-deficient yeast mutant: Identification of phosphate transporters from higher plants. Plant Cell 9:381-392.
- Leggewie, G. and Braun, H.P. (1998) A cDNA from potato with homology to DnaJ is identical to a hitherto unidentified gene that is induced upon tuberisation in potato and flowering in tobacco (PGR98-128), Plant Physiol. 117:1127.
- Liu, J.-Q., Leggewie, G., Varotto, S., and Thompson, R.D. (1999) Characterisation of an anther-expressed protein kinase gene in the potato Solanum berthaultii and its antisense inhibition in transgenic plants, Sex. Plant. Reprod. 11:336-346.
- Leggewie, G., Willmitzer, L., and Riesmeier, J.W., (1999) Identification and characterisation of two cDNAs encoding phosphate transporters from Solanum tuberosum. In: Plant Nutrition-Molecular Biology and Genetics, Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium of Mineral Nutrition of Plants, G. Gissel-Nielsen and A, Jensen eds, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp125-136.
- Leggewie, G., Zhang, H., Jennings, A., and Forde, B.G. (1999) Molecular approaches to study high affinity nitrate transport in Arabidopsis thaliana J Exp. Bot. 50 (Suppl.):58.
- Zeh, M., Leggewie,  G., Hoefgen, R. and Hesse H. (2002) Cloning and characterisation of a cDNA encoding a cobalamin-independent methionine synthase from potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Plant Mol. Biol. 48:255-265.
- Li, D., Zhu, H., Liu, K., Liu, X., Leggewie, G., Udvardi, M., Wang D. (2002) Purple acid phosphatase of Arabidopsis thaliana: comparative analysis and differential regulation by phosphate deprivation J. Biol. Chem. 277:27772-27781.
- Leggewie, G., Kolbe, A., Lemoine, R., Roessner, U., Lytovchenko, A., Zuther, E., Kehr, J., Frommer, W.B., Riesmeier, J.W., Willmitzer, L., Fernie, A.R. (2003) Overexpression of the sucrose transporter SoSUT1 in potato results in alterations in leaf carbon partitioning and in tuber metabolism but has little impact on tuber morphology. Planta 217:158-167.
- Gordon-Weeks, R., Tong, Y., Davies, T.G.E. and Leggewie G. (2003) Restricted spatial expression of a high-affinity phosphate transporter in potato roots, J. Cell. Sci. 116:3135-3144.
- Gabriel-Neumann, E., Neumann, G., Leggewie, G., George E. (2011) Constitutive overexpression of the sucrose transporter SoSUT1 in potato plants increases arbuscular mycorrhiza fungal root colonization under high, but not under low, soil phosphorus availability, Journal of Plant Physiology 168:911-919.
- Schenkel, W., Leggewie, G. (2015) New techniques in molecular biology challenge the assessment of modified organisms, Journal of Consumer Protection and Food Safety 10:263-268.
-  Kahrmann, J., Bömeke, O., Leggewie, G. (2017) Genome Editing vor dem Europäischen Gerichtshof: Richtungsweisung aus Luxemburg? Zeitschrift für medizinische Ethik 63(4):297-308.
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