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Profil
| Derzeitige Stellung | Professor W-3 und Äquivalente |
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| Fachgebiet | Allgemeine Genetik und funktionelle Genomforschung,Bioinformatik und Theoretische Biologie,Evolutionäre Zell- und Entwicklungsbiologie der Tiere |
| Keywords | genome evolution, sex determination, genome stability, cancer, developmental biology |
Aktuelle Kontaktadresse
| Land | USA |
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| Ort | Eugene |
| Universität/Institution | University of Oregon |
| Institut/Abteilung | Institute of Neuroscience |
Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung
| 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 |
| Beginn der ersten Förderung | 01.01.2009 |
Programm(e)
| 2007 | Humboldt-Forschungspreis-Programm für Naturwissenschaftler*innen aus den USA |
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Projektbeschreibung der*des Nominierenden
| 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. |