Wolfgang Hennig

Wolfgang Hennig (born May 3, 1941 in Leipzig ) is a German professor of biology and molecular biology .

biography

Wolfgang Hennig is the son of the well-known biologist Willi Hennig . He attended grammar school in Berlin-Steglitz and after graduating from high school, studied biology at the Free University in Berlin and at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . He received his doctorate in 1967 at the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen, and in 1972 he completed his habilitation there in biology while working as a research assistant. In the meantime he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Edinburgh in 1968 . In 1973 he became a professor in molecular biology at the University of Zurich , where he was senior assistant 1973-1974 and lecturer at the Institute of Molecular Biology. From 1974 to 1977 he was head of an independent working group at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the MPG in Tübingen. In 1978, Wolfgang Hennig accepted the chair of genetics from the University of Nijmegen .

In 1997 Hennig retired . Since then he has been visiting professor at the Institute for Physiological Chemistry at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and since 1999 honorary professor in the department of biology at Mainz University. From 1987 to 2001 he organized laboratory courses and gave lectures in the guest laboratory of the Max Planck Society at the Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology (SIBCB) of the CAS in Shanghai. Since 1998 he has been Honorary Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) , Shanghai, Institute of Cell Biology, the West China University of Medical Sciences in Chengdu and Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan . From 2001 to 2006 he was a long-term lecturer at the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with its own working group of Chinese and German biology students at the Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences (SIBS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and 2006-2008 at the CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology (PICB) in Shanghai. He then worked as a DAAD lecturer at St. Luke's Hospital in Quezon City / Manila in the Philippines and at the Biological Faculty of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE) in Quito , Peru .

From 1978 he was editor and 1982–2003 “Managing Editor” of the specialist journal Chromosoma . Hennig has nearly 100 scientific publications in international journals. He published a textbook on genetics in the scientific publishing house Springer and edited volumes of the series Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation . Further scientific publications concern manuscripts from the estate of his father Willi Hennig as well as revised new editions of the pocket book of zoology by Willi Hennig.

Hennig is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), the Society for Genetics , the Genetics Society of America, and the American Society of Cell Biology . He was a member of the Management Group of the European Biochemistry Node for Interactions with China (EBNIC) of the European Union from 1998–2001 and a member of the Steering Committee of BIONET from 2006–2009 .

Wolfgang Hennig is married and has four children.

literature

• Wolfgang Hennig: Genetics. 3rd revised edition. Springer-Verlag, Berlin et al. 2001, ISBN 3-540-24096-9 .

Web links

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