Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics

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Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
Category: research Institute
Carrier: Max Planck Society
Legal form of the carrier: Registered association
Seat of the wearer: Munich
Facility location: Berlin-Dahlem
Type of research: Basic research
Subjects: Natural sciences
Areas of expertise: Molecular biology , genetics
Basic funding: Federal government (50%), states (50%)
Management: Alexander Meissner (Director)
Employee: about 400
Homepage: www.molgen.mpg.de

The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics (MPIMG) is a molecular genetic research institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin-Dahlem .

history

The MPIMG goes back to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics , founded in 1926 , whose department for experimental hereditary pathology was incorporated into the Max Planck Society in 1953 as the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Hereditary Biology and Hereditary Pathology.

The first director of this institute from 1953 to 1960, Hans Nachtsheim , was head of the Department for Experimental Hereditary Pathology at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics (KWI-A) from 1941 to 1945 . From 1960 to 1965 Fritz Kaudewitz (1921-2001) followed as director.

The Max Planck Institute for Comparative Hereditary Biology and Hereditary Pathology was renamed the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in 1964. Its first directors were Heinz-Günter Wittmann and Heinz Schuster . Thomas Trautner was appointed third director shortly afterwards. The then three departments and the junior research groups of the Otto Warburg Laboratory, named after Otto Warburg , moved to new buildings in 1970. A joint computing center operated together with the Fritz Haber Institute was opened in 1986.

An institute for genetic research founded with the support of the Berlin Senate with Schering AG , initially operated on the MPIMG campus since 1986, was finally established under its director Lothar Willmitzer (* 1952) as the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology in Golm near Potsdam relocated. Its original building was added to the MPIMG in 2001 when a subsidiary of Schering AG left it.

Departments

According to its research areas, the MPIMG is divided into the following departments and research groups:

Further research groups

  • Development and Illness - Stefan Mundlos

Otto Warburg Laboratory

The Otto Warburg Laboratory houses the following junior research groups (as of 07/2017):

  • Epgenomics (Ho-Ryun, Chung)
  • RNA bioinformatics (Annalisa Marsico)
  • Long non-coding RNA (Ulf Oerom)
  • Regulatory Networks in Stem Cells (Edda Schulz)
  • Nascent Transcription & Cell Differentiation (Andreas Mayer)
  • Gene Regulation and Systems Biology of Cancer (Marie-Laure Yaspo)
  • Cell Signaling Dynamics (Zhike Zi)

Scientific Core Facilities

  • Sequencing Core Facility (Bernd Timmermann)
  • Microscopy Group (Thorsten Mielke)
  • Mass Spectrometry Group (David Meierhofer)

Emeritus groups

Groups of emeritus directors are (as of mid-2015):

International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS)

The MPI for Molecular Genetics coordinates the doctoral school "IMPRS for Computational Biology and Scientific Computing", in which the Free University of Berlin and the "CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology" in Shanghai are also involved. The spokesman for the IMPRS is Martin Vingron.

See also

literature

  • Genes and people: 50 years of research at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics , MPI for Molecular Genetics, Berlin 2014 online, PDF

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Head of the institute. In: About us - Management. On MolGen.MPG.de, accessed September 4, 2019.
  2. ↑ Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics. At Deutsches-Epigenom-Programm.de, accessed on September 4, 2019.
  3. ↑ Max Planck Society: I. Abt., Rep. 3 - Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics
  4. ^ Max Planck Society: II. Dept., Rep. 10 - Max Planck Institute for Comparative Hereditary Biology and Hereditary Pathology
  5. ↑ see page about emeritus groups of the institute, accessed August 4, 2015
  6. ↑ see also the homepage of the IMPRS

Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 41.4 ″  N , 13 ° 16 ′ 27.5 ″  E