Peter Uetz

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Peter Uetz (born June 11, 1965 in Untergruppenbach ) is a German biologist . His main research interests are microbial systems biology , molecular biology and herpetology .

Life

After attending primary school in Untergruppenbach and grammar school in Heilbronn, Uetz graduated from high school in 1985. In 1982 he published his first popular science paper on the reproductive biology of chameleons as part of the state competition Jugend forscht for Baden-Württemberg . In 1987 he co-founded the working group iguanas within the German Society for Herpetology and Terrarium Studies and the Iguana magazine, alongside Gunther Köhler . From the winter semester 1985/86, Uetz studied biology at the University of Stuttgart , where he obtained the intermediate diploma in the winter semester 1986/87. In 1986 he developed a computer program for molecular genetics there , with which he took fifth place in biology in the state competition Jugend forscht for Baden-Württemberg. From 1987 to 1988 he did community service at the Institute for Immunology at Heidelberg University. In the summer semester 1989 he studied at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and from the winter semester 1989/90 in Heidelberg. In 1993 he graduated with the thesis The 5-HT3 Receptor Gene of the Mouse in Neurobiology at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg. In 1997 he received his doctorate in biochemical studies on the limb deformity protein of vertebrates at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg as a doctor of natural sciences in developmental biology . In November 1995 Uetz started the EMBL Reptile Database with Thure Etzold , a database that (as of December 2019) contains systematic information on 11,136 reptile species. Uetz is supported by Jakob Hallermann, Jirí Hošek and a scientific advisory board consisting of 34 members, including well-known scientists such as Aaron M. Bauer , Frank Glaw , Larry Lee Grismer , Miguel Vences , Sebastian Lotzkat and Thomas Ziegler . After postdoctoral research at the University of Washington in Seattle , he became an Associate Professor at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) in Rockville , Maryland in 2006 . In June 2007 he completed his habilitation at the University of Karlsruhe . In October 2011, he joined the Center for Study of Biological Complexity at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond , Virginia as an Associate Professor . His research areas include microbial interactomics , interactomics of viruses and bacteriophages , bioinformatics of protein networks, protein functions , protein complexes and protein domains, and the biodiversity of reptiles .

Dedication names

In 2018 the chameleon species Calumma uetzi from Madagascar was named after Peter Uetz.

literature

  • Peter Uetz: Biochemical studies on the limb deformity protein of vertebrates , Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, 1997 (doctoral thesis with curriculum vitae on page 135)
  • Interview: Peter Uetz In: Fabrizio Li Vigni: A Life for Reptiles and Amphibians, Edition Chimaira, 2013, ISBN 978-3-89973-199-6 , pp. 141–145

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jugend-forscht.de: A computer program for molecular genetics
  2. ↑ David Prötzel, Miguel Vences, Oliver Hawlitschek, Mark D. Scherz, Fanomezana M. Ratsoavina, Frank Glaw: Endangered beauties: micro-CT cranial osteology, molecular genetics and external morphology reveal three new species of chameleons in the Calumma boettgeri complex (Squamata : Chamaeleonidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Uetz, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Untergruppenbach