Diethard Tautz

Diethard Tautz ( born August 17, 1957 in Glonn ) is a German biologist and geneticist who is primarily concerned with the molecular basis of the evolution of mammals. He is a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön since 2006 (formerly MPI for Limnology ).

Life

Tautz studied biology in Frankfurt and Tübingen, where in 1981 he obtained his diploma. For his doctoral thesis he studied first at the former Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen, but he completed the doctorate in 1983 at the EMBL in Tübingen. Subsequently, he conducted research for two years as a postdoctoral fellow in Cambridge / UK. From 1985 to 1987 he worked for two years at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen as a postdoc with Herbert Jaeckle, after the Habilitation in 1988 he remained until 1990 as a junior research group leader at the MPI for Developmental Biology.

Tautz habilitated at the University of Tübingen in turn specialized molecular biology and then went as a group leader at the Institute of Genetics at the University of Munich. In 1991 he was appointed to the Zoological Institute of the University of Munich, 1998, he was appointed to the Institute of Genetics at the University of Cologne. Since October 2006, Tautz 's " Scientific Member " of the Max Planck Society and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön.

Tautz researches mainly on molecular evolution, population genetics, the origin of species and comparative genome research, especially on the model of the house mouse. From 2005 to 2006 he was president of the German Zoological Society, since 2009 he is president of the Association for Biology, Biosciences and Biomedicine in Germany ( VBIO ). He is a member of the Review Board Zoology of the DFG and co-editor of several scientific journals. In 1995 he received the prestigious Philip Morris Research Prize.

He is an elected member of several scientific societies and academies, including the European Molecular Biology Organization, the North Rhine- Westphalian Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Writings

Post: Michael Haller, Martin Niggeschmidt: The myth of the decline of intelligence. From Galton to Sarrazin: The thought patterns and fallacies of eugenics, Springer 2012 ISBN 978-3-531-18447-0