The Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology is located in Tübingen

Tübingen

Tübingen is a traditional university town in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, on a ridge between the Neckar and Ammer rivers.-Geography:...

, Germany

Germany

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. The main topics of scientific research conducted by the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology focus on the molecular mechanisms underlying spatial information within the embryo, communication between cells in the induction process, as well as the formation and differentiation of tissues and organs.

Departments

• Protein Evolution - A. Lupas:
• Biochemistry - E. Izaurralde (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
  The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is a research prize awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft every year since 1985 to scientists working in Germany. This highest German research prize consists of a research grant of 2.5 million euro, to be used within seven years...
  
   2008)
• Genetics - C. Nüsslein-Volhard
  Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
  Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is a German biologist who won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1991 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995, together with Eric Wieschaus and Edward B...
  
   (Nobel Prize
  Nobel Prize
  The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
  
   in Physiology or Medicine in 1995, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
  The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is a research prize awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft every year since 1985 to scientists working in Germany. This highest German research prize consists of a research grant of 2.5 million euro, to be used within seven years...
  
   1986)
• Evolutionary Biology - R. Sommer
• Molecular Biology - Detlef Weigel
  Detlef Weigel
  Detlef Weigel is a German American scientist working at the interface of developmental and evolutionary biology.-Scientific career:...
  
   (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
  The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is a research prize awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft every year since 1985 to scientists working in Germany. This highest German research prize consists of a research grant of 2.5 million euro, to be used within seven years...
  
  2007)