Dr. Michael Wink
Professor
Department of Biology
Heidelberg University
Germany
Biography
1971-1977 Study of Biology, Chemistry and Statistics (University of Bonn) 1977-1980 Doctorate in Pharmaceutical Biology (TU-Braunschweig) 1980-1985 Postdoctoral Assistant and Associate Assistant (C1) TU Braunschweig 1984 Habilitation in Pharmaceutical Biology, TU Braunschweig 1985-1986 Guest stay at the Max Planck Institute for Breeding Research, Cologne 1986-1988 Heisenberg scholarship of the DFG 1986-1988 Research group leader at the Genzentrum of the University of Munich 1988-1989 Professor of Pharmaceutical Biology (University of Mainz), rejection of an offer to a C4 professorship 1989 (C4) for Pharmaceutical Biology in the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Heidelberg 1990 Guest professor at the Universities of Cordoba, Nanjing, Harbin, Shanghai 1995-1997 Study Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy 1998-2004 Spokesperson of the DFG Graduate Research Group 388 Biotechnology 1998 Head of the Steinbeis-company biopharmaceutics and analytics 1999-2005 Establishment of a new Bachelor's degree in Molecular Biotechnology; Degrees of formation and studies 2002 Founding Director of the IPMB, Faculty of Biosciences 1990-2002 Dean / Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy; Member of the Senate of the University of Heidelberg; Transfer of the Faculty of Pharmacy to the Faculty of Biosciences; Merger of the Institutes of the Faculty of Pharmacy to the Institute of Pharmacy & Molecular Biotechnology 2005-2007 Prodekan of the Faculty of Biosciences
Research Interest
Pharmaceutical Biology with the related research areas Phytochemistry, Chemical Ecology, Molecular & Cell Biology, Molecular Pharmacology and Phytotherapy, Evolutionary Biology, Systematics Phylogeography
Publications
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M., Meissner, C., Witte, L .: Patterns of quinolizidine alkaloids in 56 species of the genus Lupinus. Phytochemistry 38, 139-153, (1995)
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Schmeller, T., Latz-Brüning, B. & Wink, M. Biochemical activities of berberine, palmatin and sanguinarine mediating chemical defense against microorganisms and herbivores. Phytochemistry 44, 257-266, 1997
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The plant vacuole: A multifunctional compartment. J. Exp. Botany 44, 231-246, (1993)
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Lenk, P .; U. Fritz, U. Joger, & M. Wink: Mitochondrial phylogeography of the European Pond Turtle, Emys orbicularis (LINNAEUS, 1758). Molecular Ecology 8, 1911-1922, 1999
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Wink, M .: Evolution of secondary metabolites from an ecological and molecular phylogenetic perspective. Phytochemistry 64, 3-19, 2003
