Wolfgang Driever

Biography

Wolfgang Driever is professor and chair of the Department of Developmental Biology, Institute of Biology I, at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg. He studied Biochemistry at the Universities of Tübingen and Munich, and his doctoral thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen with Prof. C. Nüsslein-Volhard. Following a postdoc at the University of Oregon, Eugene USA, he was appointed in 1990 as Assistant Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School and MGH. Since 1996 he is Professor of Developmental Biology at Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg. He was the co-founder of the biotech company DeveloGen AG in 1997. Since 2001, he is the coordinator of SFB / CRC592 Signaling Mechanisms in Embryogenesis and Organogenesis. From what the initiator of ZBSA Center for Systems Biology at the University of Freiburg, and since 2010 acts as its Director. He is recipient of the Otto-Hahn Award of Max Planck Society and of the Otto Mangold Award of the German Society for Developmental Biology. From 1998-99 he served as president of the German Society for Developmental Biology. He has been a member of the editorial boards of Development, Developmental Biology, Mechanisms of Development, BMC Developmental Biology.

Research Interest

His research interest is on Analysis of developmental mechanisms at the molecular level and quantitative understanding of complex regulatory networks using system biology approaches. Pou5f1 / Oct4 during embryonic development of zebrafish: network structure and dynamics, mechanisms of developmental timing). Formation and function of complex neuronal systems - the dopaminergic system in zebrafish: transcriptional networks) and signaling networks specifying dopaminergic subtypes; neural network function.