Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen
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The Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen was located in Tübingen, Germany; it was founded as the Max Planck Institute for Virus Research in 1954. From 1984 to 2021, it was named the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. The topics of scientific research conducted at the institute cover a very wide range - from biochemistry, cell and developmental biology to evolutionary and ecological genetics, functional genomics and bioinformatics - to address fundamental questions in microbial, plant and animal biology, including the interaction between different organisms.
Departments
[edit]- Protein Evolution - Andrei Lupaș
- Complex Biological Interactions - Yen-Ping Hsueh
- Microbiome Science - Ruth E. Ley
- Evolutionary Biology - Ralf J. Sommer
- Algal Development and Evolution - Susana Coelho
- Molecular Biology - Detlef Weigel (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, Foreign Member of the Royal Society)
- (former department) Genetics - C. Nüsslein-Volhard (emeritus; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, Foreign Member of the Royal Society)
- (former department) Cell Biology - Gerd Jürgens (emeritus; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize)