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Peter Lichter, 2016
Peter Lichter (June 2012)

Peter Lichter (born October 16, 1957 in Mannheim ) is a German biologist and university professor .

Career and areas of work

Lichter studied biology at Heidelberg University from 1977 to 1983 . He wrote his dissertation Structure and Expression of Genomic Information for the Heavy Chain of a Human Myosin , on which he received his doctorate in 1986 , at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg . Afterwards, Lichter was employed as a post-doctoral student at the School of Medicine in Yale (USA) for four years . In 1990 he went back to Heidelberg to the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), where he became head of the project group “Organization of Complex Genomes”. In 1992 he was at the DKFZ department managers and 1995 he was at the University of Heidelberg habilitation . He received the Venia legendi for Molecular Human Genetics . In 2000, Lichter became a full professor at Heidelberg University .

Lichter's fields of work include the pathomechanisms of tumor development, tumor markers , the molecular characterization of tumor cells and their genome organization and gene functions. He works on in situ hybridization methods for gene localization, on high-resolution mapping of chromosomal aberrations and on gene mapping. His specialty is leukemia , especially chronic lymphocytic leukemia , in which, among other things, he mapped genetic changes. Lichter made significant contributions to the first representations of individual human chromosomes in metaphase spreading and in the cell nuclei. To do this, he used chromosome-specific probes for fluorescence in situ hybridization .

Awards and memberships

Publications (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Newly elected members 2004. (PDF; 1.7 MB) p. 50.
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Peter lights.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 27 kB) CV (English)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hbigs.uni-heidelberg.de  
  3. ↑ P. Lichter, T. Cremer, J. Borden, L. Manuelidis, DC Ward: Delineation of individual human chromosomes in metaphase and interphase cells by in situ suppression hybridization using recombinant DNA libraries. In: Human genetics. Volume 80, Number 3, November 1988, pp. 224-234, ISSN  0340-6717 . PMID 3192212 .
  4. ↑ T. Cremer, P. Lichter, J. Borden, DC Ward, L. Manuelidis: Detection of chromosome aberrations in metaphase and interphase tumor cells by in situ hybridization using chromosome-specific library probes. In: Human genetics. Volume 80, Number 3, November 1988, pp. 235-246, ISSN  0340-6717 . PMID 3192213 .
  5. ↑ Member entry by Peter Lichter (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 17, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Lights, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim