Eric F. Wieschaus
| Eric Francis Wieschaus | |
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Eric F. Wieschaus
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| Born |
June 8, 1947 South Bend, Indiana |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Developmental biology |
| Institutions |
Princeton University Robert Wood Johnson Medical School |
| Alma mater |
University of Notre Dame (B.S.) Yale University (Ph.D.) |
| Known for | Embryogenesis |
| Notable awards | Genetics Society of America Medal (1995) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1995) |
Eric Francis Wieschaus (born June 8, 1947 in South Bend, Indiana) is an American developmental biologist and 1995 Nobel Prize-winner.
Born in South Bend, Indiana, he attended John Carroll Catholic High School in Birmingham, AL before attending the University of Notre Dame for his undergraduate studies (B.S., biology), and Yale University (Ph.D., biology) for his graduate work. In 1978, he moved to his first independent job, at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany and moved from Heidelberg to Princeton University in the United States in 1981.
Much of his research has focused on embryogenesis in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, specifically in the patterning that occurs in the early Drosophila embryo. Most of the gene products used by the embryo at these stages are already present in the unfertilized egg and were produced by maternal transcription during oogenesis. A small number of gene products, however, are supplied by transcription in the embryo itself. He has focused on these "zygotically" active genes because he believes the temporal and spatial pattern of their transcription may provide the triggers controlling the normal sequence of embryonic development.
Saturation of all the possible mutations on each chromosome by random events to test embryonic lethality was done by Eric Wieschaus.(PSY IITK)
In 1995, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward B. Lewis and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard as co-recipients, for their work revealing the genetic control of embryonic development.
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