Diethard Tautz

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Diethard Tautz

Diethard Tautz (born August 17, 1957 in Glonn ) is a German biologist, molecular geneticist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön . He deals with the molecular basis of evolution and genetic processes of natural selection . As part of his doctoral thesis, he described the method used today in forensics to determine the genetic fingerprint .

Life

Tautz studied biology from 1976 to 1981 at the University of Frankfurt am Main and at the University of Tübingen . For his doctoral thesis, he conducted research as a doctoral student with Manfred Renz at the former Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen and at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg and completed his doctorate in Tübingen in 1983. He then spent two years as a postdoc with Gabriel Dover in the Department of Genetics in Cambridge , England. From 1985 to 1988 he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen as a postdoc with Herbert Jäckle . After completing his habilitation in molecular biology in Tübingen in 1988, he became group leader at the Institute for Genetics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1991 he was appointed professor at the Zoological Institute of the LMU Munich. In 1998 he was offered a position at the Institute for Genetics at the University of Cologne . Since 2006 Tautz has been a "Scientific Member" of the Max Planck Society and Director at the MPI for Evolutionary Biology in Plön as well as honorary professor at the University of Kiel .

Memberships

Tautz is a member of several scientific societies, from 2005 to 2006 he was President of the German Zoological Society and from 2009 to 2010 President of the Association of Biology, Biosciences and Biomedicine in Germany (VBIO). He is an elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization, the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina . He is co-editor (editorial board) of various scientific journals and currently Senior Editor of "eLIFE" and Senior Editor of "Molecular Ecology".

honors and awards

Selected publications

  • D. Tautz, M. Renz: Simple sequences are ubiquitous repetitive components of eukaryotic genomes. In: Nucleic Acids Research. 12, 1984, pp. 4127-4138.
  • D. Tautz: Hypervariability of simple sequences as a general source for polymorphic DNA markers. In: Nucleic Acids Research. 17, 1989, pp. 6463-6471.
  • D. Tautz, R. Lehmann, H. Schnürch, R. Schuh, E. Seifert, A. Kienlin, K. Jones, H. Jäckle: Finger protein of novel structure encoded by hunchback, a second member of the gap class of Drosophila segmentation genes. In: Nature. 327, 1987, pp. 383-389.
  • D. Tautz, C. Pfeifle: A non-radioactive in situ hybridization method for the localization of specific RNAs in Drosophila embryos reveals translational control of the segmentation gene hunchback. In: Chromosoma. 98, 1989, pp. 81-85.
  • D. Tautz: Segmentation. In: Developmental Cell. 7, 2004, pp. 301-312.
  • RJ Sommer, D. Tautz: Involvement of an orthologue of the Drosophila pair-rule gene hairy in segment formation of the short germ-band embryo of Tribolium (Coleoptera). In: Nature. 361, 1993, pp. 448-450.
  • Tribolium Sequencing Consortium: The genome of the model beetle and pest Tribolium castaneum. In: Nature. 452, 2008, pp. 949-955.
  • UK Schliewen, D. Tautz, S. Pääbo: Sympatric speciation suggested by monophyly of crater lake cichlids. In: Nature. 368, 1994, pp. 629-632.
  • AW Nolte, J. Freyhof, KC Stemshorn, D. Tautz: An invasive lineage of sculpins, Cottus sp. (Pisces, Teleostei) in the Rhine with new habitat adaptations has originated from hybridization between old phylogeographic groups. In: Proceedings of the Royal Society - Biological Sciences (Series B). 272, 2005, pp. 2379-2387.
  • M. Friedrich, D. Tautz: Ribosomal DNA phylogeny of the major extant arthropod classes and the evolution of myriapods. In: Nature. 376, 1995, pp. 165-167.
  • T. Domazet-Loso, D. Tautz: An evolutionary analysis of orphan genes in Drosophila. In: Genome Research. 13, 2003, pp. 2213-2219.
  • TJ Heinen, F. Staubach, D. Häming, D. Tautz: Emergence of a new gene from an intergenic region. In: Curr Biology. 19, 2009, pp. 1527-1531.
  • J. Savard, H. Marques-Souza, M. Aranda, D. Tautz: A segmentation gene in Tribolium produces a polycistronic mRNA that codes for multiple conserved peptides. In: Cell. 126, 2006, pp. 559-569.
  • S. Ihle, I. Ravaoarimanana, M. Thomas, D. Tautz: An Analysis of Signatures of Selective Sweeps in Natural Populations of the House Mouse. In: Molecular Biology and Evolution. 23, 2006, pp. 790-797.
  • F. Staubach, A. Lorenc, PW Messer, K. Tang, DA Petrov, D. Tautz: Genome Patterns of Selection and Introgression of Haplotypes in Natural Populations of the House Mouse (Mus musculus). In: PLoS Genetics. 8, 2012, p. E1002891.
  • LF Pallares, B. Harr, LM Turner, D. Tautz: Use of a natural hybrid zone for genome-wide association mapping of craniofacial traits in the house mouse. In: Molecular Ecology. 23, 2014, pp. 5756-5770.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ EMBL ( Memento of the original dated November 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.embl.de
  2. ^ Department of Genetics
  3. ↑ a b Diethard Tautz CV
  4. ↑ Diethard Tautz new President of the VBIO ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.biotechnologie.de
  5. ↑ eLIFE
  6. ^ Molecular Ecology
  7. ^ Award for evolutionary biologist Diethard Tautz MP Institute for Evolutionary Biology
personal data
SURNAME Tautz, Diethard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist and geneticist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Glonn