Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Driever

geb. am 18.04.1960 in

1989-90: Postdoctoral research in laboratory of Dr. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Max-Planck-Institute of Developmental Biology, Tübingen 1990-91: Postdoctoral research in laboratory of Dr. Monte Westerfield, University of Oregon, USA 1991-96: Assistant Professor of Medicine (Genetics), Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA 1996-present: Full Professor (C4) for Developmental Biology of Animals at the Institute of Biology I, University of Freiburg 1997 Co-Founder, DeveloGen AG, Göttingen, Germany 2001-present: Sprecher, SFB 592 Signalmechanismen in Embryogenese und Organogenese, University of Freiburg 2005-2010 Member, Board of Directors, Zentrum für BioSystemAnalyse ZBSA der Universität Freiburg 11/2010-present Director of the ZBSA

Hauptforschungsgebiete

Entwicklungsbiologie

Wichtige Publikationen

Tay TL, Ronneberger O, Ryu S, Nitschke R, Driever W (2011) Comprehensive catecholaminergic projectome analysis reveals single-neuron integration of zebrafish ascending and descending dopaminergic systems. Nature Communications 2: 171 - DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1171 Onichtchouk, D., Geier, F., Polok, B., Messerschmidt, D. M., Mossner, R., Wendik, B., Song, S., Taylor, V., Timmer, J. and Driever, W. (2010). Zebrafish Pou5f1-dependent transcriptional networks in temporal control of early development. Mol Syst Biol 6, 354. Mahler, M., Filippi, A. and Driever, W. (2010). DeltaA/DeltaD regulate multiple and temporally distinct phases of Notch signaling during dopaminergic neurogenesis in zebrafish. J Neurosci 30, 16621-635. Kastenhuber, E., Kratochwil, C. F., Ryu, S., Schweitzer, J. and Driever, W. (2010). Genetic dissection of dopaminergic and noradrenergic contributions to catecholaminergic tracts in early larval zebrafish. J Comp Neurol 518, 439-58. Kastenhuber, E., Kern, U., Bonkowsky, J. L., Chien, C. B., Driever, W. and Schweitzer, J. (2009). Netrin-DCC, Robo-Slit, and heparan sulfate proteoglycans coordinate lateral positioning of longitudinal dopaminergic diencephalospinal axons. J Neurosci 29, 8914-26. Löhr H., Ryu, S. and Driever, W. (2009). Zebrafish diencephalic A11-related dopaminergic neurons share a conserved transcriptional network with neuroendocrine cell lineages. Development 136, 1007-17. Ryu, S., Holzschuh, J., Erhardt, S., Ettl, A. K. and Driever, W. (2005). Depletion of minichromosome maintenance protein 5 in the zebrafish retina causes cell-cycle defect and apoptosis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102, 18467-72. Simons, M., Gloy, J., Ganner, A., Bullerkotte, A., Bashkurov, M., Kronig, C., Schermer, B., Benzing, T., Cabello, O. A., Jenny, A. et al. (2005). Inversin, the gene product mutated in nephronophthisis type II, functions as a molecular switch between Wnt signaling pathways. Nat Genet 37, 537-43. Lunde, K., Belting, H. G. and Driever, W. (2004). Zebrafish pou5f1/pou2, homolog of mammalian Oct4, functions in the endoderm specification cascade. Curr Biol 14, 48-55. Kim, C. H., Oda, T., Itoh, M., Jiang, D., Artinger, K. B., Chandrasekharappa, S. C., Driever, W. and Chitnis, A. B. (2000). Repressor activity of Headless/Tcf3 is essential for vertebrate head formation. Nature 407, 913-6.

Kontaktaufnahme

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Email: wolfgang.driever@biologie.uni-freiburg.de

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Institut für Biologie I
Entwicklungsbiologie
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79104 Freiburg i. Br.

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