Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology

The Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen was located in Tübingen, Germany; it was founded as Max Planck Institute for Virus Research in 1954 as an offshoot of the Tübingen-based Max Planck Institute for Biology. 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 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
 * 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)
 * Cell Biology - Gerd Jürgens (emeritus; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize)