Lars Agenent Awarded the Leibniz Price
Max Planck Fellow Lars Angenent has been awarded the Leibniz Prize for his outstanding work in the field of environmental biotechnology, which has made key contributions to microbial electrochemistry.
Basic Research at the Forefront of Modern Biology
Basic research at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen addresses fundamental questions in microbial, algal, plant and animal biology, including the interaction between different organisms. The approaches we use range from biochemistry, cell and developmental biology to evolutionary and ecological genetics, functional genomics and bioinformatics.
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The institute currently has five active departments, each led by a Director: Protein Evolution (Andrei Lupas), Microbiome Research (Ruth Ley), Integrative Evolutionary Biology (Ralf Sommer), Algal Development and Evolution (Susana Coelho), and Molecular Biology (Detlef Weigel).
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In addition, we host three independent research groups outside the departments, which extend and complement the departments’ scientific directions.
Friedrich Miescher Laboratory
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Max Planck Fellow Lars Angenent has been awarded the Leibniz Prize for his outstanding work in the field of environmental biotechnology, which has made key contributions to microbial electrochemistry.
