Rainer Hertel

Rainer Hertel (born February 24, 1937 in Hof ) is a German molecular biologist and professor emeritus in the Faculty of Biology at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg .

Hertel studied biology and chemistry at the University of Munich on a scholarship from the Maximilianeum Foundation . From 1960 to 1962 he worked as a research assistant at Purdue University in West Lafayette , where he worked on auxin transport .

In 1963 Hertel received his doctorate with a thesis on this subject at the University of Munich. From 1963 to 1966 he did research on recombination in bacteriophages as a DFG research fellow at the University of Cologne . He was then assistant professor until 1967, from 1968 associate professor at Michigan State University , where he worked on auxin and geotropism . He also conducted research as a Senior Research Fellow in the Plant Biology Department of the Carnegie Institute at Stanford University and as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ohio State University in Columbus.

In 1969 Hertel was offered a chair for molecular biology at the Institute of Biology III at the University of Freiburg . Hertel's main areas of research are auxin binding and transport, plant membranes, developmental and sensory physiology , evolutionary biology, and the theory of science and philosophy of science .

Hertel was director of the Institute for Biology III several times and from 1992 to 1993 dean of the Faculty of Biology. He retired in 2000.

Honors

• 1989: Corresponding Member of the American Society of Plant Physiologists

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A. Lorenz, R. Kaldenhoff, R. Hertel: A major integral protein of the plant plasma membrane binds flavin. In: Protoplasm. Volume 221, Number 1-2, May 2003, pp. 19-30, doi : 10.1007 / s00709-002-0066-z , PMID 12768338 .