Wolf-Michael Weber
Wolf-Michael Weber (* 1954) is professor of zoology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . From 2009 to 2010 he was President of the German Zoological Society .
Life
From 1976 to 1986 Weber studied biology and biochemistry at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken. He wrote his thesis on Influence of IR-laser light on metabolic rates of cell cultures of Saccheromyces cervisiae . From 1987 to 1989 he did his doctorate at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics in Frankfurt / Main under W. Schwarz. The topic of his dissertation is Comparison of endogenous glucose uptake systems of Xenopus oocytes with foreign expressed glucose transporters . In 1989 he became head of the research and development department at Heka Electronics in Lambrecht . From 1991 to 1992 he held a postdoc position at the Institute for Veterinary Physiology at the Free University of Berlin with W. Clauss. In 1992 he moved to the thematically identical institute of the Justus Liebig University in Giessen .
Finally, in April 1993, he became Assistant Professor (C1) and Head of Cell Biology and Electrophysiology in Giessen. In December 1996 the habilitation in "Animal Physiology" followed with the topic Comparison of endogenous and expressed transport systems in oocytes of Xenopus laevis . From 1999 to 2002 he was Assistant Professor at the Medical Faculty of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), Department Molecular Biology in the Laboratory of Physiology. Since 2002 he has been a full professor in Münster.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolf-Michael Weber in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of Weber at the University of Münster
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Weber, Wolf-Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |