Rolf-Eberhard Streeck
Rolf-Eberhard Streeck (born August 6, 1940 in Frankfurt am Main , † November 19, 2007 in Munich ) was a German molecular geneticist .
Life
Streeck, son of a chemist, studied chemistry , physics and philosophy from 1960 to 1967 with a diploma in chemistry (1968) at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1971 he was in chemistry and a minor in physics and genetics with the work "Investigations of different conformations of tRNAs with enzymatic methods" for Hans Georg Zachau to Dr. rer. nat. PhD . From 1972 to 1978 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Physiological Chemistry, Physical Biochemistry and Cell Biology at the University of Munich. 1979 habilitation he did to Dr. med. habil. with a paper in Physiological Chemistry "Molecular analysis of the genome organization in eukaryotes with the help of restriction nucleases and in vitro recombination of DNA" and taught as a private lecturer .
A Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation DFG in 1980 was followed by a research stay at the Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, USA. In 1981 he received a lifelong appointment at the Institut Pasteur , Paris, where he was head of department (Chef d'Unité) and director of the Groupement de Génie Génétique (G3).
In 1987 he was offered the chair for molecular genetics at the Institute for Medical Microbiology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .
He was married and had three children. The physician and HIV researcher Hendrik Streeck is his nephew.
Act
Streeck was project leader in the DFG Collaborative Research Center 311 "Immunopathogenesis" and 490 "Invasion and Persistence in Infections" as well as a member of the coordination committee of the Scientific and Medical Research Center of the University of Mainz. In 1992 he founded the graduate school "Molecular and cellular mechanisms of pathogenesis " in Mainz and was its spokesman.
He has published numerous scientific articles and papers and was a member of the editorial board of the Journal of General Virology .
Web links
- Literature by and about Rolf-Eberhard Streeck in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of Rolf-Eberhard Streeck (Uni Mainz)
- Biography of Rolf-Eberhard Streeck (PDF file; 39 kB)
- Entry Who's Who of the universities of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate ( Memento from September 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Streeck, Rolf-Eberhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German molecular geneticist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 2007 |
| Place of death | Munich |