Ludger Rensing

Ludger Rensing (born October 23, 1932 in Münster ; † March 11, 2013 ) was a German zoologist and university professor . He was a professor of cell biology at the University of Bremen .

biography

After receiving his doctorate in 1961 , Ludger Rensing completed his habilitation in zoology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and worked for several years in the United States ( Princeton University , Harvard University ). His areas of work were the regulation of stress genes and stress proteins as well as the molecular mechanisms of the " internal clock ".

Works

Rensing is the author of numerous scientific publications and several books as well as editor of the journal Chronobiology International .

• Activity period of the water strider Velia currens F. ( Dissertation ) Göttingen 1961
• On the circadian organization of Drosophila . 1966
• For ontogenesis and hormonal control of circadian rhythms. Goettingen 1969
• Biological rhythms and regulation. Jena u. Stuttgart 1973
• General biology. An introduction for biologists and Mediciners. Stuttgart 1975
• General biology. An introduction for biologists and Mediciners. Stuttgart 1984
• together with Gerd Cornelius: Basics of Cell Biology. Stuttgart 1988
• together with Michael Koch, Volkhard Rippe u. Bernhard Rippe: People under stress. Psyche, body, molecules. Heidelberg / Munich 2006, 420 pp.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ludger Rensing in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary in the Weserkurier on March 16, 2013
2. ↑ Biographical data of Ludger Rensing in: Who is who - Das deutsche Who's Who 2000/2001 . 39th edition, Schmidt-Römhild, Verlagsgruppe Beleke, Lübeck 2000, p. 1124, ISBN 978-3-7950-2029-3 .