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.
Walter Jakob Gehring was a Swiss developmental biologist who was a professor at the Biozentrum Basel of the University of Basel,Switzerland. He obtained his PhD at the University of Zurich in 1965 and after two years as a research assistant of Ernst Hadorn he joined Alan Garen's group at Yale University in New Haven as a postdoctoral fellow.
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.
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 FRS,FMedSci,Hon. FRCP 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.
Sir James Cuthbert Smith is Director of Science at the Wellcome Trust,Senior Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute and President of the Council at Zoological Society of London.
Sarah Amalia Teichmann is a German scientist who is 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,at the University of Cambridge and 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.
Lingadahalli Subrahmanya Shashidhara is an Indian developmental biologist,geneticist and a professor of biology currently serving as the Centre Director of National Centre for Biological Sciences,Bengaluru,India. He is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research,Pune,and at Ashoka University,Sonepat,India. He heads the LSS Laboratory at IISER and is known for his studies on Drosophila,particularly the evolution of appendages and functions of homeotic selector genes. He is a J. C. Bose National Fellow of the Department of Science and Technology and an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy,Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences,India. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research,the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research,awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology,one of the highest Indian science awards,in 2008,for his contributions to biological sciences.
Elly Margaret Tanaka is a biochemist and senior scientist at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna,Austria. Tanaka studies the molecular cell biology of limb and spinal cord regeneration as well as the evolution of regeneration.
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.
Asifa Akhtar is a Pakistani biologist who has made significant contributions to the field of chromosome regulation. She is Senior Group Leader and Director of the Department of Chromatin Regulation at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics. Akhtar was awarded EMBO membership in 2013. She became the first international and female Vice President of the Max Planck Society's Biology and Medicine Section in July 2020.
Suzanne Eaton was an American scientist and professor of molecular biology at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden,Germany.
Anne Ephrussi is a French developmental and molecular biologist. Her research is focused on the study of post-transcriptional regulations such as mRNA localization and translation control in molecular biology as well as the establishment of polarity axes in cell and developmental biology. She is head of the Developmental Biology Unit and director of the EMBL International Centre for Advanced Training (EICAT) program at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).
Denise Johnson Montell is an American biologist who is the Duggan Professor of Molecular,Cellular,and Developmental Biology at the University of California,Santa Barbara. Her research considers the oogenesis process in Drosophila and border cell migration. She has served as president of the Genetics Society of America and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.
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.
