Nüsslein-Volhard

[nys-lahyn-fawl-hahrt]

noun

1. Christiane born 1942, German biologist: Nobel Prize 1995.

Example Sentences

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Biology and a nonvoting member of the MPG Senate, is critical of the way the case has played out.

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In November, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, a Nobel laureate and a director at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, argued in a separate letter to her fellow members of MPG’s Senate that there are “deep-seated, unacknowledged prejudices against women in leadership positions” at MPG, according to press accounts.

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In 1979, one year after Lewis had published his paper on the genes that govern limb and wing development, two embryologists, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric Wieschaus, working in Heidelberg, began to create fruit fly mutants to capture the very first steps that govern the formation of the embryo.

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The mutants generated by Nüsslein-Volhard and Wieschaus were even more dramatic than the ones described by Lewis.

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The genes altered in these mutants, Nüsslein-Volhard and Wieschaus reasoned, determine the basic architectural plan of the embryo.

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