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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | General Genetics, Functional Genome Research,Cell Biology,Evolutionary Cell and Developmental Biology of Animals |
| Keywords | Asymmetry, Embryonic Axis Formation, Handedness, Polarity |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Boulder |
| Institution | University of Colorado at Boulder |
| Institute | Developmental Biology |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Anthony A. Hyman | Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Zellbiologie und Genetik, Dresden |
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| Prof. Dr. Kai L. Simons | Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Zellbiologie und Genetik, Dresden |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/05/2004 |
Program(s)
| 2004 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor William B. Wood is an outstanding developmental geneticist who made groundbreaking discoveries on mechanisms of embryonic patterning. As a postdoctoral researcher with Professor Werner Arber, he helped to elucidate the genetic control of DNA restriction in E. coli. His early independent work on genetic dissection of bacteriophage T4 assembly earned him membership in the U. S. National Academy of Sciences. During the past two decades, he has made significant contributions to understanding sex determination and early patterning in embryos of C. elegans. At the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, he will work on the puzzle of how embryos establish left-right asymmetry with the correct handedness. |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2005 | William B. Wood: The left-right polarity puzzle: determining embryonic handedness.. In: PLoS Biology, 2005, 1348-1351 |
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