Prof. Lital Alfonta
Biological and related sciences, Physical sciences, Bioelectrochemistry, Synthetic Biology, Chemical Biology
Biological and related sciences
Developmental biology, cellular biology
Development, cell differentiation and death
Dr honoris causa, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel, 2007
Dr honoris causa, University of Geneva, Switzerland, 2006
Dr honoris causa, University of Oxford, UK; Dr honoris causa, University of Sheffield, UK; Grand Cross with Star and Sash of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2005
Dr honoris causa, University College London, UK; Dr honoris causa, Ochanomizu University Tokyo, Japan, 2002
Dr honoris causa, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA, 2001
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1997
Grand Cross with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1996
Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology, together with Eric Wieschaus and Edward Lewis, 1995
Officer’s Cross of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1994
Dr honoris causa, University of Freiburg, Germany; Dr honoris causa, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA; Ernst Schering Prize, Berlin, Germany, 1993
Prix Louis Jeantet de Médecine, Geneva, Switzerland; Dr. Otto Bayer Prize from Bayer AG, Leverkusen, Germany; Gregor Mendel Medal of the Genetical Society, UK, 1992
Dr honoris causa, Utrecht University, Netherlands; Dr honoris causa, Princeton University, USA, 1991
Carus Medal from the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, 1988
Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation, 1986
German Research Foundation (DFG) research fellowship, in the laboratory of Prof. Klaus Sander, Institute for Biology I (Zoology), University of Freiburg, 1977
English, German
Driever, W., Nüsslein-Volhard, C.: A gradient of bicoid protein in the Drosophila embryo. In: Cell 54, 1988. S. 83-94.
St.Johnston, D., Nüsslein-Volhard, C.: The Origin of Pattern and Polarity in the Drosophila Embryo. In: Cell 68, 1992. S. 201-219.
Nüsslein-Volhard, C.: The identification of Genes controlling Development in Flies and Fishes. Les Prix Nobel, Stockholm, 1996.
Knaut, H., Werz, C., Geisler, R. and Nüsslein-Volhard, C., The Tübingen 2000 screen Consortium: A zebrafish homologue of the chemokine receptor Cxcr4 is a germ-cell guidance receptor. In: Nature 421(6920), 2003. S. 279-282.
Gilmour D. et al: Towing of sensory axons by their migrating target cells in vivo. In: Nature Neurosci. 7(5), 2004. S. 491-492.
Wann ist der Mensch ein Mensch? Juristische Studiengesellschaft Karlsruhe, C. F. Müller-Verlag 2003.
Von Genen und Embryonen, Reclam-Verlag 2004.
Das Werden des Lebens: wie Gene die Entwicklung steuern, Verlag C.H. Beck 2004.
Coming to life: how genes drive development, Kales Press 2006.
Neural crest development
Pigment pattern formation
Muscle stem cells
Dermis development
Fin growth control
Secretary General of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO), Heidelberg, Germany
Scientific advisory board of the Developmental Biology Programme, University of Sheffield, UK
Advisory council of the Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany
Scientific advisory board, CRG – Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain
Scientific council of the European Research Council (ERC)
Executive director of the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory at the Max Planck Society (MPG), Tübingen, Germany
Commission for the selection of leaders of independent junior research groups in the MPG
Chair of the Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Foundation for Women in the Sciences, www.cnv-stiftung.de.
President of the Society of German Researchers and Physicians (GDNÄ)
National Ethics Council of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2001 – 2007
Senate of the Max Planck Society, to 2007
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Biological and related sciences, Physical sciences, Bioelectrochemistry, Synthetic Biology, Chemical Biology
Biological and related sciences, cell biology, molecular biology, biomedicine
Biological and related sciences, Environment, Plant Ecology, Conservation Biology, Landscape Genomics
Biological and related sciences, Microbial bioelectrochemistry, Microbial electrophysiology
Why are so few women awarded a Nobel Prize? The reasons are manifold and hinder female researchers at all stages of their careers. Countermeasures are only slowly taking effect.
277 senior researchers received an ERC Advanced Grant, among them are Susanne Albers, Gabriela Constantin, Rachel Griffith, Martina Havenith, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Mercedes Maroto-Valer (photo), Eva Schinnerer, Christa Schleper, Dr. Maria Sibilia, Ingrid Van Keilegom, and Hanna Vehkamäki. Congratulations!
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard was elected as chair of the highest German order of merit for science and art, established in 1842.