Jun 15, 2015

BioConsortia recruits Andrew Jacobs to lead R&D team

BioConsortia has appointed Dr. Andrew Jacobs as Head of R&D for its operation in Auckland, New Zealand. He will report to Dr. Susan Turner, SVP R&D for BioConsortia.

Jacobs joins BioConsortia with a history of research management. Most recently he held the position of Manager of Corporate Projects at ITEK Ventures Pty Ltd.

He has been a Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics since 2003, and was concurrently an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Adelaide in Australia.

Jacobs completed his PhD at the University of Adelaide with six months spent in Germany at The Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research.

“What motivated me to join the BioConsortia team was the elegance and uniqueness in the directed selection technology of the AMS process,” Jacobs said. “The ability to rapidly evolve the microbiome through AMS allows for beneficial impact upon multiple traits across multiple species. I think that’s pretty exciting. It really is a technology that will change the way we think about microbes in agriculture.”