Günther Fleissner

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Günther Fleissner (born March 4, 1940 in Asch , Sudetenland ) is a German zoologist and professor emeritus at the Institute for Cell Biology and Neuroscience at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . Fleissner is "one of the first in the world to venture into the neurobiological analysis of ' internal clocks '."

Günther Fleissner spent his school days in Steinfurth and Bad Nauheim . He studied biology , chemistry and physics at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and in Frankfurt am Main , where he received his doctorate in 1971 in the working group of the sensory physiologist Dietrich Burkhardt (1928-2010). Shortly thereafter, he was in Frankfurt habilitation and in ways of internal appointments to a C3 professor 16 (biology) called at the then Department.

Together with his wife Gerta Fleissner, who also has a doctorate, he researched, among other things, insects and arachnids - especially scorpions - the neural basis of the day-night rhythm .

Even before retiring, Fleissner and his wife turned to a new area of ​​research in which they are currently still active: the magnetic sense of migratory birds . In 2011, together with long-time magnetic sense researcher Wolfgang Wiltschko, they published the first evidence of receptor cells that can be used to perceive the earth's magnetic field .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compulsory university lecturers: Günther Fleissner on the web server of the University of Frankfurt am Main
  2. ^ Christian Winter : Günther Fleissner 70 years. In: UniReport No. 3 from May 19, 2010, p. 40
  3. ^ Günther Fleissner: Isolation of an insect circadian clock. In: Journal of Comparative Physiology. Volume 149, No. 3, 1982, pp. 311-316, doi: 10.1007 / BF00619146
  4. ^ Günther Fleissner: Scorpion lateral eyes: Extremely sensitive receptors of Zeitgeber stimuli. In: Journal of Comparative Physiology. Volume 118, No. 1, 1977, pp. 101-108, doi: 10.1007 / BF00612340
  5. ↑ Günther Fleissner: Rhythmicity, circadian rhythm and sleep. Chapter 24 in: Josef Dudel , Randolf Menzel and Robert F. Schmidt (eds.): Neuroscience. From molecule to cognition. 2nd Edition. Springer-Verlag, Berlin and Heidelberg 2001, pp. 527-542, ISBN 978-3-642-62534-3
  6. ↑ C. Niessner, S. Denzau, J. Gross, L. Peichl, H.-J. Bischof, G. Fleissner, W. Wiltschko & R. Wiltschko: Avian Ultraviolet / Violet Cones Identified as Probable Magnetoreceptors. In: PLoS ONE. Volume 6, No. 5, 2011: e20091, doi: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0020091
  7. ↑ Gerta Fleissner, Günther Fleissner and Gerald Falkenberg: A magnetometer in the beak of all birds? In: Biology in Our Time. Volume 40, No. 2, 2010, pp. 72-73, doi: 10.1002 / biuz.201090027
personal data
SURNAME Fleissner, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 4th 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Asch , Sudetenland