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Oxford Nanopore Technologies

Max Schmidt

Max Schmidt
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Geisenheim University, Germany
Biography

Maximilian Schmidt started his PhD in 2014 at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, in the group of Professor Björn Usadel. There, he was part of the team that sequenced and assembled the *Solanum pennellii *genome as the first eukaryotic genome that was sequenced and assembled with Oxford Nanopore technology. In 2020, Max moved to the Research Center Juelich with Professor Usadel to continue working on plant de novo genomics. In 2022, he moved to the group of Professor Kai Voss-Fels in the Institute of Grapevine Breeding at Geisenheim University where he is currently working on setting up the sequencing infrastructure to introduce new methods into grapevine breeding approaches.

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