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Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (Alemania, 20 de octubre de 1942) es una bióloga del desarrollo alemana ganadora del Premio Nobel de Medicina en 1995. [1]
Christiane (Janni) Nüsslein-Volhard (German pronunciation: [kʁɪsˈti̯anə ˈnʏslaɪ̯n ˈfɔlˌhaʁt] ⓘ; born 20 October 1942) is a German developmental biologist and a 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate. She is the only woman from Germany to have received a Nobel Prize in the sciences.
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995. Born: 20 October 1942, Magdeburg, Germany. Affiliation at the time of the award: Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie, Tübingen, Germany. Prize motivation: “for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development” Prize share: 1/3. Life.
From 1985 until 2014 Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard was a director at the Max Planck Institute of Developmental Biology at Tübingen. As an Emeritus Professor she is still leading a research group at the Institute focusing on pattern formation, growth and cell migration in the zebrafish, a new vertebrate model organism.
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard. Estudió inicialmente Biología en Fráncfort, luego cambió a Física y posteriormente a Bioquímica. Desde 1985 dirige la división de genética del Instituto Max Planck de Biología del Desarrollo en Tubinga, Alemania.
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard approaches biology with the rigour of a scientist and the sensibility of an artist. She helped solve one of the central mysteries of life: how the genes in a fertilised egg direct the formation of an embryo.
We use the zebrafish ( Danio rerio) as a model organism to study pigment pattern formation in a vertebrate. Prof. Dr. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard. Zebrafish display a conspicuous pattern of alternating blue and golden stripes on the body and on the anal- and tailfins.
