PUBLICATION

An interview with Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

Authors
Brown, K.
ID
ZDB-PUB-171102-8
Date
2017
Source
Development (Cambridge, England)   144: 3851-3854 (Other)
Registered Authors
Brown, Katherine
Keywords
none
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Developmental Biology/history*
  • Drosophila melanogaster/embryology
  • Drosophila melanogaster/genetics
  • History, 20th Century
  • History, 21st Century
  • Zebrafish/embryology
  • Zebrafish/genetics
PubMed
29089358 Full text @ Development
Abstract
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany. In 1995, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine, along with Eric Wieschaus and Edward Lewis, for her work on the genetic control of embryogenesis using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster In the 1990s, she transitioned her lab to working with zebrafish (Danio rerio), using similar forward genetic approaches to those that had proved so successful in Drosophila to uncover key regulators of vertebrate development. We met with Christiane at the recent International Society for Developmental Biology (ISDB) meeting in Singapore, to talk about her research, the impact of the Nobel Prize and the challenges of being a 'woman in science'.
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Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
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