Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

• 1969 – 1973
  Diplom degree and doctoral work in the laboratory of Dr Heinz Schaller
  
  

• 1972 – 1974
  Research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Virology, Tübingen, Germany
  
  

• 1975 – 1976
  Postdoctoral long-term fellowship from the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO), in the laboratory of Prof. Walter Gehring, Biocenter of Basel, Switzerland
  
  

• 1977
  German Research Foundation (DFG) research fellowship, in the laboratory of Prof. Dr Klaus Sander, Institute for Biology I (Zoology), University of Freiburg, Germany
  
  

• 1978 – 1980
  Group Leader at the European Laboratory for Molecular Biology (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
  
  

• 1981 – 1985
  Leader of an independent working group at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Tübingen
  
  

• Since 1985
  Scientific member of the Max Planck Society and Director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen
  
  

• Since 1989
  Honorary professor, University of Tübingen
  
  

• 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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