Karl-Friedrich Fischbach

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Karl-Friedrich Fischbach

Karl-Friedrich Fischbach (born August 13, 1948 in Siegen ) is a German biologist and biochemist. From 1985 to 2013 he was Professor of Biophysics and Molecular Biology at the University of Freiburg .

Life

Karl-Friedrich Fischbach graduated from high school in 1968 and was awarded the Erasmus Sarcerius plaque for special academic and sporting achievements and was accepted into the German National Academic Foundation . From 1968 to 1970 he studied biology in Freiburg and 1970/71 biochemistry at Imperial College London , where he obtained the Diploma of Membership of Imperial College (DIC) in biochemistry in 1971 . In 1973 he wrote - again in Freiburg - his diploma thesis with Hanns-Christof Spatz on the transfection of Bacillus subtilis , which was followed by his doctorate. Fischbach was promoted to Dr. rer. nat. PhD.

From 1976 to 1984 he was Martin Heisenberg's assistant at the chair for genetics at the Institute for Genetics and Microbiology at the University of Würzburg . His habilitation took place in 1983 in genetics . From 1984 to 1985 he stayed in Würzburg on a Heisenberg scholarship until he was appointed professor for biophysics and molecular biology at the Institute for Biology III at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in 1985. In 1994 he turned down a call to the chair of genetics at the University of Dresden . From 1996 to 2001 he was the coordinator of the EU project "Molecular Mechanisms for Building the Brain". From 2000 to 2011 he was a liaison professor at the German National Academic Foundation and from 2008 to 2010 managing director of the Institute for Biology III in Freiburg.

research

The focus of research is eye and brain development on the model system of Drosophila melanogaster . Fischbach made significant contributions to the anatomical description of the Drosophila brain, in particular his work on the shape and classification of nerve cells in the optical lobe, the antenna lobe and the central complex. As assistant to Martin Heisenberg , he was involved in isolating structural brain mutants from Drosophila in Würzburg. At the Institute for Biology III at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , Fischbach characterized roughest and kin of irre (kirre) as the first members of a gene family that has been conserved in evolution and is now known as the IRM (Irre Cell Recognition module). In 2014 the Journal of Neurogenetics dedicated a special edition to Fischbach on the occasion of his retirement.

Non-university activities

Fischbach was a founding member and, from 2005 to 2009, as the successor to his wife Margit Fischbach, chairman of the non-profit association Zentrale für Lehrmedien im Internet . Both founded the social network senior meeting on the Internet in 1998 .

From 2016 to 2018, Fischbach organized the nationwide student competition of the head office for educational media on the Internet, "Making memories visible. 80 years of the Reichspogromnacht 2018".

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spatz, Hanns-Christof. "Karl-Friedrich Fischbach's First Publications and Their Impact in the Biological Sciences." Journal of neurogenetics 28.3-4 (2014): 167-170. doi : 10.3109 / 01677063.2013.873430 .
  2. ^ Heisenberg program
  3. ↑ Institute for Biology III at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg ( Memento of the original of November 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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.biologie.uni-freiburg.de
  4. ↑ Cf. K.-F. Fischbach and B. Bonengel: Film on eye development a . Fly on the rise again?
  5. ^ Fischbach KF and Dittrich APM (1989). The Optic Lobe of Drosophila melanogaster. Part I: A Golgi Analysis of Wild-Type Structure. Cell Tissue Res. 258, 441-475
  6. ^ Stocker RF, Lienhard MC, Borst A., and Fischbach KF (1990). Neuronal Architecture of the Antennal Lobe in Drosophila melanogaster. Cell Tissue Res. 262, 9-34.
  7. ↑ Hanesch U. Fischbach KF and Heisenberg M. (1989). Neuronal architecture of the central complex in Drosophila melanogaster. Cell Tissue Res. 257, 343-366.
  8. ↑ Fischbach KF and Heisenberg M. (1981). Structural brain mutant of Drosophila melanogaster with reduced cell number in the medulla cortex and with normal optomotor yaw response. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 78, 1105-1109.
  9. ↑ Ramos RGP, Igloi GL, Lichte B., Baumann U., Maier D., Schneider T., Brandstätter JH, Fröhlich A. and Fischbach KF (1993). The irregular chiasm C - roughest locus of Drosophila, which affects axonal projections and programmed cell death, encodes a novel immunoglobulin-like protein. Genes and Development, 7, 2533-2547.
  10. ↑ Strünkelberg M., Bonengel B., Moda LM., Hartenstein A., de Couet HG, Ramos RGP, Fischbach KF (2001) rst and its paralogue kirre act redundantly during embryonic muscle development in Drosophila. Development 128, 4229-4239.
  11. ↑ Fischbach KF, Linneweber GA, Andlauer TFM, Hertenstein A, Bonengel B, and Chaudhary K (2009). The Irre Cell Recognition Module (IRM) proteins. J Neurogenet. 23: 48-67
  12. ↑ Dierk F. Reiff, Chun-Fang Wu: A Special Issue onDrosophila Neurogenetics in Honor of Karl-Friedrich Fischbach . In: Journal of Neurogenetics . tape 28 , no. 3-4 , October 7, 2014, ISSN  0167-7063 , p. 165–166 , doi : 10.3109 / 01677063.2014.958153 ( tandfonline.com [PDF; accessed October 23, 2018]).
  13. ↑ More and more seniors are exchanging ideas on the Internet
  14. ↑ Making memories visible: 80 years of the Reichspogromnacht 2018 | Headquarters for educational media in the Internet eV (ZUM.de). Retrieved October 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Fischbach, Karl-Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist and biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Siegen , North Rhine-Westphalia , British zone of occupation