Georg Nagel (biophysicist)

Georg Nagel (born August 24, 1953 in Weingarten ) is a German biologist and professor at the University of Würzburg .

Life

Nagel studied biology and biophysics at the University of Konstanz and completed his doctorate at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics in Frankfurt am Main . He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University in New Haven , Connecticut and Rockefeller University in New York City , New York . From 1992 to 2004, Nagel was a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics. Since 2004 he has been a professor at the University of Würzburg , initially at the Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology and Biophysics, and since 2019 at the Physiological Institute as holder of the Chair of Neurophysiology .

Act

Nagel is one of the discoverers of the channelrhodopsins , a family of light-activated ion channels . This discovery has brought new opportunities to science in the study of neural networks and the new field of optogenetics . Other hoped-for successes of the application lie in the regaining of lost vision and the treatment of Parkinson's disease and other neurological diseases by means of deep brain stimulation . Here, Nagel works in particular on the application of the method to plants.

Nagel's other work deals with the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR), a protein that is involved in the pathogenesis of cystic fibrosis .

Awards (selection)

2010 Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences , together with Peter Hegemann and Ernst Bamberg
2010 Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize , together with Peter Hegemann and Ernst Bamberg
2012 Zülch Prize
2013 Louis Jeantet Prize , together with Peter Hegemann
2013 Brain Prize
2015 member of the European Molecular Biology Organization
2019 Rumford Prize
2020 Shaw Prize

literature

Christina Beck: From the red eye of the green alga , in: MaxPlanckForschung 4/2002, pp. 52–55 online, PDF (article on work on channelrhodopsin)

Web links

Research group Prof. Dr. Georg Nagel at the University of Würzburg (uni-wuerzburg.de); accessed on April 11, 2018

Individual evidence

↑ Uni-Intern, edition 05 of February 9, 2010: Biozentrum: Lichtblick für die Forschung. (No longer available online.) In: biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de. February 9, 2010, archived from the original on February 5, 2016 ; accessed on February 5, 2016 .
↑ ^a ^b Georg Nagel at the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation (thebrainprize.org); accessed on September 7, 2019.
↑ Ninth Annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences Awarded to Dr. Peter Hegemann, Dr. Georg Nagel, and Dr. Ernst Bamberg at wiley.com; Retrieved April 26, 2011
^ Winner of the Karl Heinz Beckurts Foundation (beckurts-stiftung.de); Retrieved February 3, 2016.
^ Fondation Louis-Jeantet - The Winners of the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine. In: jeantet.ch. Retrieved February 3, 2016 .

personal data
SURNAME	Nagel, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 24, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vineyard

[1] Uni-Intern, edition 05 of February 9, 2010: Biozentrum: Lichtblick für die Forschung. (No longer available online.) In: biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de. February 9, 2010, archived from the original on February 5, 2016 ; accessed on February 5, 2016 .

[brain-2] Georg Nagel at the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation (thebrainprize.org); accessed on September 7, 2019.

[3] Ninth Annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences Awarded to Dr. Peter Hegemann, Dr. Georg Nagel, and Dr. Ernst Bamberg at wiley.com; Retrieved April 26, 2011

[4] Winner of the Karl Heinz Beckurts Foundation (beckurts-stiftung.de); Retrieved February 3, 2016.

[Jeantet-5] Fondation Louis-Jeantet - The Winners of the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine. In: jeantet.ch. Retrieved February 3, 2016 .