Stephan Weise
EURISCO Coordinator
Stephan Weise is a computer scientist by training. He holds a PhD from Bielefeld University, Germany. He has been working in the field of life sciences for more than two decades, where he gained extensive experience especially in integrating and analyzing data. He is head of the Genebank Documentation working group at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) in Gatersleben, Germany, and is also the coordinator of the EURISCO network within ECPGR. Since the end of 2021, he has also been Chair of the ECPGR's Documentation and Information Working Group.
Selected publications
S. Weise, F.R. Blattner, A. Börner, K.J. Dehmer, M. Grübe, D. Harpke, U. Lohwasser, M. Oppermann, N. Stein, E. Willner and M. Nagel. The German Federal Ex Situ Genebank for Agricultural and Horticultural Crops – Conservation, exploitation and steps towards a bio-digital resource centre.Genetic Resources, 2025. Accepted.
S. Weise, R. Hoekstra, K.J. Kutschan, M. Oppermann, R. van Treuren and U. Lohwasser. Analysis of gaps in rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) collections in European genebanks. Frontiers in Plant Science, 14:1244467, 2023. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1244467
P.D. Shaw, S. Weise, M. Obreza, S. Raubach, S. McCouch, B. Kilian and P. Werner. Database solutions for genebanks and germplasm collections. In K. Ghamkhar, W.M. Williams and A.H.D. Brown (editors), Plant Genetic Resources in the 21st Century – The OMICS Era, chapter 16, pages 285–309. Apple Academic Press, Palm Bay, Florida, USA, 1 edition, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003302957
P. Kotni, T. van Hintum, L. Maggioni, M. Oppermann and S. Weise. EURISCO update 2023: the European Search Catalogue for Plant Genetic Resources, a pillar for documentation of genebank material. Nucleic Acids Research, 51(D1):D1465–D1469, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac852
S. Weise, U. Lohwasser and M. Oppermann. Document or lose it – on the importance of information management for genetic resources conservation in genebanks. Plants, 9(8):1050, 2020. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9081050