| Name: | Diethard T a u t z |
| Date of birth: | 17 August 1957 in Glonn/ Germany |
| Nationality: | German |
| married, three children |
Education:
| 1963 - 1976 | school and "Abitur" in Grafing / München |
| 1976 - 1978 | study of Biology at the University of Frankfurt/Main |
| 1978 - 1981 | study of Biology at the University of Tübingen |
| May 1981 | Diploma in Biology |
| 1981 - 1982 | work for Ph.D. thesis at the "Max-Planck Institut für Biologie" in Tübingen |
| 1982 - 1983 | continuation of Ph.D. thesis at the EMBL in Heidelberg |
| May 1983 | Ph.D. in Biology |
| 1983 - 1985 | postdoc at the University of Cambridge (England), Department of Genetics (Dr. Dover) |
| 1985 - 1987 | postdoc at the "Max-Planck Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie" in Tübingen (Dr. Jäckle) |
| Juli 1988 | "Habilitation" at the University of Tübingen |
| 1988 - 1990 | Akademischer Rat" (independent group leader) at the Department of Genetics and Microbiology / University of Munich |
| 1991- 1998 | C3-Professor for Molecular Evolution at the Department of Zoology / University of Munich |
| Nov.1998-Aug. 31, 2007 | C4-Professor for Molecular Evolution at the Institute for Genetics/ University of Cologne |
| since Sept. 2007 | Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionsbiologie Abt. Evolutionsgenetik August-Thienemann-Str. 2 24306 Ploen (Germany) Tel.: 04522-763-390 E-mail: tautz@mpil-ploen.mpg.de |
| Honors:
Ausbildungsstipendium der DFG (1985) "Gerhard Hess Preis der DFG" for excellent young researchers (1990) "Philip Morris Preis" for the development of microsatellites as a molecular genetic screening tool (1995) "De Snoo-van´t Hoogerhuys-Preis" for the work in evolutionary developmental biology (The Netherlands, 1998) Elected EMBO member (2001) Functions:
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| Editorial Activities:
"Editor in Chief" of Development Genes and Evolution "Associate Editor" of Molecular Biology and Evolution Member of "Editorial Board" of Molecular and Developmental Evolution Member of "Editorial Board" of Evolution & Development Member of "Editorial board" of Molecular Ecology Member of "Editorial board" of Trends in Genetics Member of "Editorial board" of Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics Member of "Editorial board" of Journal of Evolutionary Biology |
| Invited speaker to conferences
in the past five years:
Annual meeting of Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Boston 1998 Conference Jaques Monod on Developmental Biology, Aussois 1998 Novartis Foundation Symposium on Homology, London 1998 Workshop Developmental Biology and Evolution, Foundation des Treilles 1998 Workshop Origin of the Hexapods, Paris 1999 Annual meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology, Charlottsville 1999 Workshop Comparative Developmental Biology, Warwick 1999 Oskar Hertwig Symposium, Berlin 1999 Meeting of European Society of Evolutionary Biology, Barcelona 1999 Symposium on Molecular Variability of Chimpanzees, Leipzig 2000 Workshop Biological Evolution and Statistical Physics, Dresden 2000 Meeting of Gesellschaft für Entwicklungsbiologie, Ulm 2001 Mosbacher Kolloquium Evolution - in vivo, in vitro and in Machina, Mosbach 2001 Annual meeting of Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution, Athens 2001 Workshop Developmental basis of evolutionary change, Chicago 2001 Segmentation meeting, Nara 2001 Microarray Technology in Evolutionary Biology, Bern 2001 Neurobiology Conference ìLADISLAV TAUCî, Gif-sur-Yvette 2001 Lausanne Genomics Days: Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics, Lausanne 2001 International Conference on Morphogenesis and Pattern Formation, Nagoya 2002 EMBO Conference "Frontiers in Molecular Biology", Oslo 2002 Sustainable development of the Mediterranean and Black Sea environment, Thessaloniki 2003 4th European Congress of Mammalogy, Brno 2003 18th European Drosophila Research Conference, Göttingen 2003 8. Croatian Biological Congress (Opening Adress), Zagreb 2003 |
| Organizer or Co-organizer of
meetings:
Jahrestagung der deutschen Entwicklungsbiologischen Gesellschaft, München 1993 Session at the 5th Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, Budapest 1996 Convenor and Session at the XX International Congress of Entomology, Firenze 1996 DFG workshop on Development and Evolution, Tutzing 1996 International workshop: Molecules and Morphology in Systematics, Paris 1997 Annual meeting of the society of molecular Biology and Evolution, Berchtesgaden 1997 DFG workshop on Development and Evolution, Tutzing 1998 Workshop Adaptive Speciation, Laxenburg 1999 DFG workshop on Development and Evolution, Tutzing 2000 Cologne Spring Meeting Evolutionary Genomics and Bioinformatics, Köln 2001 |
| Organizer and/or member of research
programs:
Organizer of the DFG Schwerpunktprogramm "Evolution of developmental mechanisms" Co-organizer of the DFG Schwerpunktprogramm "Evolution of social systems" Member of the Sonderforschungsbereich "Mechanisms and factors of gene activation" Member of the Graduierten Kolleg "Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Development" Member of SFB 572 "Festlegung von Zellverbänden und Zelltypspezifizierung" Member of Graduate School "Genetics and Functional Genomics" |