Ulrike Gaul

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Ulrike Gaul (born August 5, 1960 in Möckmühl ; † June 14, 2020 ) was a German developmental biologist.

Life

Ulrike Gaul studied biochemistry and physics at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In 1988 she did her doctorate at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology there . They then went on research stays at the University of Washington and the University of California at Berkeley. From 1993 she was a professor at Rockefeller University in New York. In 2008 she was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship . In 2009 she accepted an Alexander von Humboldt professorship at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where she worked at the Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPSM).

Her scientific work focused on the analysis of the role of glial cells in the nervous system of fruit flies , as well as systems biology studies on gene regulation in developmental biology .

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  1. ↑ Obituary notice Ulrike Gaul. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Süddeutscher Verlag , July 4, 2020, accessed on July 4, 2020 .