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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | General Genetics, Functional Genome Research,Bioinformatics and Theoretical Biology,Evolutionary Cell and Developmental Biology (Zoology) |
| Keywords | genome evolution, sex determination, genome stability, cancer, developmental biology |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Eugene |
| Institution | University of Oregon |
| Institute | Institute of Neuroscience |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Manfred Schartl | Lehrstuhl für Physiologische Chemie I, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg |
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| Prof. Dr. Holger Höhn | Institut für Humangenetik, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/01/2009 |
Programme(s)
| 2007 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Postlethwait is an internationally leading researcher in the field of zebrafish genomics and development. He discovered that during evolution in fish a whole-genome duplication has occurred and described a novel evolutionary mechanism called "subfunctionalization". He is also one of the founders of the new discipline 'Evolutionary Developmental Biology' ("Evo-Devo"), where developmental processes of different species are compared in an attempt to determine the evolutionary relationship between organisms and how developmental processes evolved. In biomedical research he recently established a whole animal model for Fanconi Anemia. While in Germany, he will focus on a better understanding of this human disease. |