Rolf Kemler

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Rolf Kemler (born February 13, 1945 in Burghaun ) is a German developmental biologist and former director of the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology in Freiburg im Breisgau .

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Rolf Kemler studied veterinary medicine at the Justus Liebig University and received his doctorate in 1973. From 1974 to 1981 he was a post-doctoral student in Paris at the Pasteur Institute with François Jacob . From 1981 to 1987 Rolf Kemler was head of a junior research group at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society in Tübingen and completed his habilitation in 1985 in the subjects of developmental biology and immunobiology . From 1987 to 1992 he headed a working group at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg im Breisgau , where he was appointed director of the Department of Molecular Embryology in 1992 and headed it until his retirement in 2013. Rolf Kemler has headed the Emeritus Laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics since 2013.

Rolf Kemler has been studying embryonic stem cells since the early 1980s . He was the first in Germany to establish embryonic stem cell cultures from mice in order to be able to research and use them. He made significant contributions to the molecular mechanisms underlying the embryonic development of mammals . This includes the identification and functional characterization of cell adhesion molecules from the group of cadherins as well as important components of cellular signaling pathways such as the Wnt signaling pathway .

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  1. ↑ Video of the Canada Gairdner Foundation on Youtube for the price to Kemler , accessed June 3, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Kemler, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German developmental biologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Burghaun