Detlef Weigel
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Weigel in 2016
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December 15, 1961 Dannenberg (Elbe), Germany |
| Residence | Germany |
| Nationality | German and US |
| Fields | Biology |
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Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology Eberhard-Karls-Universität Salk Institute |
| Alma mater | Bielefeld University, University of Cologne |
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| Notable awards | Charles Albert Shull Award, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Otto Bayer Award, Mendel Medal |
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Detlef Weigel (born 1961 in Lower Saxony, Germany) is a German American scientist working at the interface of developmental and evolutionary biology.
Weigel was an undergraduate in biology and chemistry at the universities of Bielefeld and Cologne. In 1986, he graduated with a Diploma in biology for this thesis on Drosophila neurogenesis with the late José Campos-Ortega. In 1988, he moved to the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen. During his PhD work with , he discovered the founding member of an important class of transcription factors, the Forkhead/FOX proteins. In 1988, he graduated with a PhD (summa cum laude) from the Eberhard-Karls-Universität.
Weigel began to work with plants during his postdoctoral research with Elliot M. Meyerowitz at Caltech, where he cloned the floral regulator LEAFY from Arabidopsis thaliana. From 1993 to 2002, he was an Assistant and then Associate Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla. In 2002, he accepted an appointment as Scientific Member and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, where he founded the Department for Molecular Biology. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute and the University of Tübingen. In 2012, Weigel co-founded the plant bioinformatics startup company Computomics in Tübingen.
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