Max Planck Institute for Biology
The Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen is a research institute located in Tübingen, Germany, and was formerly known as the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. A predecessor institution operated under the same name from 1948 to 2004.
The Kaiser Wilhelm Society, the forerunner to the Max Planck Society, established various natural science research institutes in the Berlin district of Dahlem in the beginning of the 20th century. Among them was the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology. The main aim of the newly established institutes was to supplement the universities and academies with research in the natural sciences and thus also to keep Germany internationally competitive.
In the following decades, scientists there and at the Institute of Biochemistry realized the importance of viruses as model organisms for understanding biological processes. Thus, they established a working group in the field of virus research. In 1941, Nobel Prize winner Adolf Butenandt, together with his colleagues Alfred Kühn and Fritz von Wettstein, set up their own working group for virus research. Two years later, parts of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology moved to the safer city of Tübingen. After the foundation of the Max Planck Society in 1948, the institute was renamed as the Max Planck Institute for Biology, which closed in 2004 as part of consolidation measures.
The aforementioned subsidiary institute for virus research had already broadened its base with a new focus on developmental biology, and was renamed as the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in 1985. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, who was appointed as Director of Department for Genetics in that year, later won the Nobel Prize for Physiology in 1995.
The Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology further broadened its research fields, which now range from biochemistry and cell biology to genome research in an evolutionary and ecological context, and was renamed the Max Planck Institute for Biology in January 2022.
Departments
The Max Planck Institute has the following departments, with leaders listed [1]
- Protein Evolution - Andrei Lupaș
- Microbiome Science - Ruth E. Ley
- Evolutionary Biology - Ralf J. Sommer
- Molecular Biology - Detlef Weigel (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, Foreign Member of the Royal Society)
- Algal Development and Evolution - Susana Coelho
See also
- Max Planck Society
External links
- Homepage of the institute
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- Evolutionary Anthropology
- Social Anthropology
- Astronomy
- Astrophysics
- Art History (Rome)
- Art History (Florence)
- Biochemistry
- Biogeochemistry
- Biological Intelligence
- Biology of Ageing
- Molecular Biomedicine
- Biophysics
- Brain Research
- Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
- Chemistry
- Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
- Research on Collective Goods
- Colloids and Interfaces
- Study of Crime, Security and Law
- Biological Cybernetics
- Demographic Research
- Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
- Dynamics and Self-Organization
- Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems
- Chemical Ecology
- Chemical Energy Conversion
- Evolutionary Biology
- Neuroscience (Florida)
- Friedrich Miescher Laboratory
- Fritz Haber Institute
- Molecular Genetics
- Gravitational Physics
- Heart and Lung Research
- History of Science
- Human Development
- Science of Human History
- Immunobiology and Epigenetics
- Infection Biology
- Informatics
- Innovation and Competition
- Intelligent Systems
- Coal Research
- Tax Law and Public Finance
- Comparative Public Law and International Law
- Comparative and International Private Law
- Social Law and Social Policy
- European Legal History
- Mathematics
- Mathematics in the Sciences
- Medical Research
- Meteorology
- Marine Microbiology
- Terrestrial Microbiology
- Microstructure Physics
- Multidisciplinary Sciences
- Neurobiology of Behavior
- Ornithology
- Science of Light
- Chemical Physics of Solids
- Physics of Complex Systems
- Physics
- Extraterrestrial Physics
- Nuclear Physics
- Molecular Physiology
- Plant Breeding Research
- Molecular Plant Physiology
- Plasma Physics
- Polymer Research
- Psychiatry
- Psycholinguistics
- Quantum Optics
- Radio Astronomy
- Security and Privacy
- Study of Societies
- Software Systems
- Solar System Research
- Solid State Research
- Sustainable Materials
research schools
- Otto Hahn (1948–1960)
- Adolf Butenandt (1960–1972)
- Reimar Lüst (1972–1984)
- Heinz Staab (1984–1990)
- Hans F. Zacher (1990–1996)
- Hubert Markl (1996–2002)
- Peter Gruss (2002–2014)
- Martin Stratmann (2014–2023)
- Patrick Cramer (since 2023)
- Walther Bothe (1954)
- Karl Ziegler (1963)
- Feodor Lynen (1964)
- Manfred Eigen (1967)
- Konrad Lorenz (1973)
- Georges J. F. Köhler (1984)
- Klaus von Klitzing (1985)
- Ernst Ruska (1986)
- Johann Deisenhofer (1988)
- Robert Huber (1988)
- Hartmut Michel (1988)
- Bert Sakmann (1991)
- Erwin Neher (1991)
- Paul J. Crutzen (1995)
- Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1995)
- Theodor W. Hänsch (2005)
- Gerhard Ertl (2007)
- Stefan W. Hell (2014)
- Emmanuelle Charpentier (2020)
- Reinhard Genzel (2020)
- Benjamin List (2021)
- Klaus Hasselmann (2021)
- Svante Pääbo (2022)
- Ferenc Krausz (2023)
- Kaiser Wilhelm Society
- Max Planck Digital Library
- Harnack Medal
- Schloss Ringberg
References
- ^ "Max Planck Institute Departments". Max Planck Institute Departments. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
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