Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society explained

The Friedrich Miescher Laboratory (FML) of the Max Planck Society is a biological research institute located on the Society's campus in Tübingen, Germany, named after Friedrich Miescher, founded in 1969 to offer highly qualified junior scientists in biology an opportunity to establish independent research groups and pursue their own line of research within a five-year period.There are currently four research groups studying evolutionary genetics, systems biology of development, and the biochemistry of meiotic recombination.

Profile

The Friedrich Miescher Laboratory (FML) of the Max Planck Society is a biological research institute located on the Society's campus in Tübingen, Germany, named after Friedrich Miescher. It was founded in 1969 to offer highly qualified junior scientists in the area of biology an opportunity to establish independent research groups and pursue their own line of research within a five-year period.[1] The FML was a bold experiment by the Max Planck Society, in response to the brain drain, to place more resources in the hands of junior scientists and make Germany a more attractive research destination.

Group Leaders

The group leaders are elected by a committee of scientists from diverse areas and institutions on the basis of a public tendering procedure. Since 2005 the FML has been represented by a managing director in order to relieve the group leaders of administrative burdens and to allow them even more time to focus on their research.

There is no specification as to which kind of biological research should be conducted at the FML, and the focus of research changes with the appointment of each new group leader. While at the FML, they can use modern, well-equipped laboratories and work in teams tailored to their ideas. Each group leader is free to allocate their resources as they choose, and in addition there is a central budget for the FML, managed jointly by the group leaders.[1]

Years active at FMLCurrent Affiliation
Wolfram Antonin2006 – 17RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Michael Hothorn2012 – 14University of Geneva, Switzerland
Silke Hauf2005 – 13Virginia Tech, West Virginia, USA
Dmitri Ivanov2005 – 11
Gunnar Rätsch2005 – 11ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Anne Spang1999 – 06Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
Gudrun Schwarzer2000 – 03University of Giessen, Germany
Andreas Mayer1997 – 03University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Christoph Schuster1996 – 03University of Heidelberg, Germany
Ralph Rupp1993 – 99Adolf Butenandt Institute, University of Munich, Germany
Alexander Borst1993 – 99Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany
Martin Bähler1991 – 97University of Münster, Germany
Christian Lehner1990 – 96University of Zurich, Switzerland
Stefan Jentsch1988 – 93Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Jürgen Bolz1987 – 93University of Jena, Germany
Claudia Stürmer[2] 1986 – 90University of Konstanz, Germany
Peter Ekblom1984 – 90University of Uppsala, Sweden
Walter Birchmeier1982 – 88Max Delbrück Center, Berlin, Germany
Rolf Kemler1981 – 87Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology, Freiburg, Germany
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard1981 – 85Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
Matthias Wabl1978 – 84University of California, San Francisco, USA
Heinz Wässle1977 – 81Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany
Wilfried Seifert1975 – 82
Reinhard Kurth1975 – 81Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
Wolfgang Hennig1974 – 78Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, China
Dieter Oesterhelt1973 – 74Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Günter Gerisch1969 – 75Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Uli Schwarz1969 – 74Shanghai Institute for Advanced Studies, China
Rolf Knippers1969 – 73University of Konstanz, Germany
Friedrich Bonhoeffer1969 – 72Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Institute Profile . 2021-10-12 . www.fml.tuebingen.mpg.de.
  2. Web site: Prof. Dr. Claudia Stürmer | AG Stürmer | Department of Biology. www.biologie.uni-konstanz.de.