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At IMB, we explore the molecular biology of the nucleus with an overarching focus on gene regulation, epigenetics & genome stability

Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU) Mainz

Peter Baumann  Dorothee Dormann  Susanne Foitzik  Thomas Hankeln  Mark Helm  Meret Huber  Edward Lemke  Brian Luke  Helen May-Simera  Marion Silies  Lukas Stelzl  Roland Strauss  Andreas Wachter  Marie-Luise Winz  Eva Wolf  Uwe Wolfrum  Shuqing Xu  Hans Zischler 

Primate piRNA/PIWI: functional aspects and adaptive phenotypes

Hans Zischler

Positions held

  • Since 2002: Professor, Head of Department, Institute of Anthropology at Johannes Gutenberg-University (JGU), Mainz
  • 1997 - 2002: Research Group Leader “Primate Genetics”, German Primate Center, Göttingen
  • 1992 - 1997: Postdoc, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • 1991: Postdoc, MPI of Psychiatry
  • 1988 - 1991: Scientific Employee, MPI of Psychiatry, Munich
  • 1985 - 1987: Scientific Employee at the Institute of Anthropology and Human Genetics, University of Tübingen

Education

  • 1991: Dr. rer. nat., MPI of Psychiatry & LMU Munich
  • 1985: Diploma, University of Tübingen

Selected publications by Hans Zischler

Heerschop S, Fagrouch Z, Verschoor EJ, Zischler H 2021) Pinpointing the PRDM9-PRDM7 Gene Duplication Event During Primate Divergence. Front Genet, 12:593725 Link

Driller C, Merker S, Perwitasari-Farajallah D, Sinaga W, Anggraeni N, Zischler H (2015) Stop and Go - Waves of Tarsier Dispersal Mirror the Genesis of Sulawesi Island. PLoS One, 10(11):e0141212 Link

Rosenkranz D, Rudloff S, Bastuck K, Ketting RF, Zischler H (2015) Tupaia small RNAs provide insights into function and evolution of RNAi-based transposon defense in mammals. RNA, 21(5):911-22 Link

Merker S, Driller C, Perwitasari-Farajallah D, Pamungkas J andZischler H (2009) Elucidating geological and biological processes underlying the diversification of Sulawesi tarsiers. Proc Natl Acad SciU S A, 106:8459-8464 Link