Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics ( MPIMG ) is a molecular genetic research institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin- Dahlem.
History
The MPIMG goes back to the Established in 1926, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics, the Department for Experimental Genetic Pathology 1953 was adopted as the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Genetic Biology and Genetic Pathology in the Max Planck Society.
The first director of this institute from 1953 to 1960, Hans Nachtsheim, was from 1941 to 1945 been Head of the Department for Experimental Genetic Pathology at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics (KWI -A). From 1960 to 1965 he Kaudewitz Fritz ( 1921-2001 ) as director.
In 1964 it was renamed the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Genetic Biology and Genetic Pathology at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics. Its first directors were Heinz -Günter Wittmann and Heinz Schuster. Thomas Trautner shortly thereafter became the third director. The then three departments and the Research Group of the named after Otto Warburg Otto Warburg Laboratory moved in 1970 to new buildings. 1986 operated together with the Fritz -Haber -Institut shared data center was opened.
An established by promoting the Berlin Senate with Schering AG Institute for Gene-Biological Research, which has been operated since the same year, first on the campus of MPIMG, was finally under its Director Lothar Willmitzer ( b. 1952 ) and the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology moved to Golm near Potsdam. Its original building in 2001, and a subsidiary of Schering AG, left, slammed the MPIMG.
Departments
The MPIMG divided its research according to the following departments and research groups:
- Developmental Genetics - Bernhard G. Herrmann
- Analysis of the vertebrate genome ( genome of vertebrates) - Hans Lehrach
- Human Molecular Genetics - H. Hilger Ropers -
- Bioinformatics - Martin Vingron
Other research groups
- Development and disease - Stefan Mundlos
- Emeritus Group - Thomas A. Trautner
- Ribosomes - Knud Nierhaus
Otto Warburg Laboratory
The Otto Warburg Laboratory houses the following research groups (12/ 2012):
- Neurodegenerative Disorders (Sylvia Krobitsch )
- Epgenomics ( Ho - Ryun Chung )
- Nutrigenomics and Gene Regulation ( Sascha Sauer)
- Molecular Interaction Networks (Ulrich Stelzl )
International Max Planck Research School ( IMPRS )
The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics coordinates the graduate school " IMPRS for Computational Biology and Scientific Computing", to which also the FU Berlin and the " CAS - MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology" in Shanghai are involved. Speaker of the IMPRS is Martin Vingron.