Jonathan Gershenzon

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Jonathan Gershenzon is Director of the Department of Biochemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and Honorary Professor at Friedrich Schiller University, both Jena, Germany. Before joining the Max Planck Society, he worked as a scientist at the Institute for Biological Chemistry, Washington State University in Pullman. Gershenzon studies the biochemistry of plant defenses, focusing on two major groups: glucosinolates and terpenoids. In 2013, he was elected into the American Association for the Advancement of Science and listed as one of the Most Cited Authors in Plant Sciences in Europe by Lab Times.