Developmental biology is the study of the process by which animals and plants grow and develop. Developmental biology also encompasses the biology of regeneration,asexual reproduction,metamorphosis,and the growth and differentiation of stem cells in the adult organism.
Christiane (Janni) Nüsslein-Volhard 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.
Prickle is also known as REST/NRSF-interacting LIM domain protein,which is a putative nuclear translocation receptor. Prickle is part of the non-canonical Wnt signaling pathway that establishes planar cell polarity. A gain or loss of function of Prickle1 causes defects in the convergent extension movements of gastrulation. In epithelial cells,Prickle2 establishes and maintains cell apical/basal polarity. Prickle1 plays an important role in the development of the nervous system by regulating the movement of nerve cells.
Peter Anthony Lawrence is a British developmental biologist at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology and the Zoology Department of the University of Cambridge. He was a staff scientist of the Medical Research Council from 1969 to 2006.
Nodal homolog is a secretory protein that in humans is encoded by the NODAL gene which is located on chromosome 10q22.1. It belongs to the transforming growth factor beta superfamily. Like many other members of this superfamily it is involved in cell differentiation in early embryogenesis,playing a key role in signal transfer from the primitive node,in the anterior primitive streak,to lateral plate mesoderm (LPM).
The Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) is an independent biomedical research organisation founded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim. The institute employs around 250 people from over 40 countries,who perform basic research. IMBA is located at the Vienna BioCenter (VBC) and shares facilities and scientific training programs with the Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP),the basic research center of Boehringer Ingelheim.
Andrea Hilary Brand is the Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Biology and a Fellow of Jesus College,Cambridge. She heads a lab investigating nervous system development at the Gurdon Institute and the Department of Physiology,Development and Neuroscience. She developed the GAL4/UAS system with Norbert Perrimon which has been described as “a fly geneticist's Swiss army knife”.
Philip William Ingham is a British geneticist,currently the Toh Kian Chui Distinguished Professor at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine,a partnership between Nanyang Technological University,Singapore and Imperial College,London. Previously,he was the inaugural Director of the Living Systems Institute at the University of Exeter,UK and prior to that was Vice Dean,Research at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine.
Diethard Tautz is a German biologist and geneticist,who is primarily concerned with the molecular basis of the evolution of mammals. Since 2006 he is director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön.
Norbert Perrimon is a French geneticist and developmental biologist. He is the James Stillman Professor of Developmental Biology in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School,an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute,and an Associate of the Broad Institute. He is known for developing a number of techniques for used in genetic research with Drosophila melanogaster,as well as specific substantive contributions to signal transduction,developmental biology and physiology.
Markus Affolter is a Swiss Developmental Biologist and Professor at the Biozentrum University of Basel,Switzerland.
Sir James Cuthbert Smith is an Emeritus Scientist at the Francis Crick Institute,Honorary Fellow of Christ's College,Cambridge and President of the Council at the Zoological Society of London.
Sarah Amalia Teichmann is a German scientist,the former head of cellular genetics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and a visiting research group leader at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). She serves as director of research in the Cavendish Laboratory,Professor at the University of Cambridge and Cambridge Stem Cell Institute,and is a senior research fellow at Churchill College,Cambridge.
Ruth Lehmann is a developmental and cell biologist. She is the Director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. She previously was affiliated with the New York University School of Medicine,where she was the Director of the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine,the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Professor of Cell Biology,and the Chair of the Department of Cell Biology. Her research focuses on germ cells and embryogenesis.
Alexander Stark is a biochemist and computational biologist working on the regulation of gene expression in development. He is a senior scientist at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) at the Vienna Biocenter and adjunct professor of the Medical University of Vienna.
Didier Stainier is a Belgian/American developmental geneticist who is currently a director at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim,Germany.
Carl-Philipp Heisenberg is a German developmental biologist specializing in embryology,cell biology,and biophysics. He is the grandson of the physicist Werner Heisenberg and nephew of biologist Martin Heisenberg. He was born in Munich,Germany.
Eileen E. M. Furlong is an Irish molecular biologist working in the fields of transcription,chromatin biology,developmental biology and genomics. She is known for her work in understanding how the genome is regulated,in particular to how developmental enhancers function,how they interact within three dimensional chromatin topologies and how they drive cell fate decisions during embryogenesis. She is Head of the Department of Genome Biology at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). Furlong was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2013,the Academia Europaea in 2016 and to EMBO’s research council in 2018.
Andrea Pauli is a developmental biologist and biochemist studying how the egg transitions into an embryo,and more specifically the molecular mechanisms underlying vertebrate fertilisations,egg dormancy,and subsequent egg activation. Her lab uses zebrafish as the main model organism. Andrea Pauli is a group leader at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) at the Vienna Biocenter in Austria.
Corinne Houart is a Belgian biomedical scientist who is Professor of Developmental Neurobiology at King's College London. She also serves as Vice Dean for Research in the Institute of Psychiatry,Psychology,and Neuroscience at King's College London. She is a leading international researcher with a focus on the molecular and cellular mechanisms that drive zebrafish forebrain development,and evolutionary mechanisms underlying vertebrate brain regionalisation.
