The Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology Tübingen was located in

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; it was founded as Max Planck Institute for Virus Research in 1954 as an offshoot of the Tübingen-based

Max Planck Institute for Biology The Max Planck Institute for Biology is located in Tübingen, Germany, and has been re-established in January 2022. The Kaiser Wilhelm Society, the predecessor organization of the Max Planck Society, established various natural science research ...

. From 1984 to 2021, it was named 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 -- in order to address fundamental questions in microbial, plant and animal biology, including the interaction between different organisms.

Departments

* Protein Evolution - Andrei Lupas * Microbiome Science - Ruth E. Ley * Evolutionary Biology - Ralf J. Sommer * Molecular Biology -

Detlef Weigel Detlef Weigel (born 1961 in Lower Saxony, Germany) is a German American scientist working at the interface of developmental and evolutionary biology. Education Weigel was an undergraduate in biology and chemistry at the universities of Bielefel ...

( Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Member of the US

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, Foreign Member of the

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) * Algal Development and Evolution - Susana Coelho * Genetics - C. Nüsslein-Volhard (emeritus;

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in Physiology or Medicine in 1995, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Member of the US

, Foreign Member of the

) * Cell Biology -

Gerd Jürgens Gerd Jürgens (also spelt Juergens) (born 1949) is a plant developmental biologist and emeritus Director of the Cell Biology Department at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology and Head of the Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP) ...

(emeritus; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize)

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Biological research institutes Education in Tübingen Genetics in Germany Organisations based in Tübingen

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