Etienne Bucher, Phd

Etienne Bucher studied plant virology at Wageningen University and then researched epigenetic mechanisms at the Gregor Mendel Institute in Vienna and at the University of Geneva. He then became a research group leader at the University of Basel, at INRAe in France and finally at Agroscope in Switzerland. At Agroscope his research group develops novel breeding approaches to adapt crops to climate change. He has led an ERC Consolidator project on epigenetics, transposable elements and crop breeding.