Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society

The Friedrich Miescher Laboratory (FML) of the Max Planck Society is a biological research institute located on the Society's campus in Tübingen, Germany, named after Friedrich Miescher, founded in 1969 to offer highly qualified junior scientists in biology an opportunity to establish independent research groups and pursue their own line of research within a five-year period. There are currently four research groups studying evolutionary genetics, systems biology of development, and the biochemistry of meiotic recombination.

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The Friedrich Miescher Laboratory (FML) of the Max Planck Society is a biological research institute located on the Society's campus in Tübingen, Germany, named after Friedrich Miescher. It was founded in 1969 to offer highly qualified junior scientists in the area of biology an opportunity to establish independent research groups and pursue their own line of research within a five-year period.

The FML was a bold experiment by the Max Planck Society, in response to the brain drain, to place more resources in the hands of junior scientists and make Germany a more attractive research destination.

Group Leaders

The group leaders are elected by a committee of scientists from diverse areas and institutions on the basis of a public tendering procedure.

Since 2005 the FML has been represented by a managing director in order to relieve the group leaders of administrative burdens and to allow them even more time to focus on their research.

There is no specification as to which kind of biological research should be conducted at the FML, and the focus of research changes with the appointment of each new group leader. While at the FML, they can use modern, well-equipped laboratories and work in teams tailored to their ideas. Each group leader is free to allocate their resources as they choose, and in addition there is a central budget for the FML, managed jointly by the group leaders.

	Years active at FML	Current Affiliation
Wolfram Antonin	2006 – 17	RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Michael Hothorn	2012 – 14	University of Geneva, Switzerland
Silke Hauf	2005 – 13	Virginia Tech, West Virginia, USA
Dmitri Ivanov	2005 – 11
Gunnar Rätsch	2005 – 11	ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Anne Spang	1999 – 06	Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
Gudrun Schwarzer	2000 – 03	University of Giessen, Germany
Andreas Mayer	1997 – 03	University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Christoph Schuster	1996 – 03	University of Heidelberg, Germany
Ralph Rupp	1993 – 99	Adolf Butenandt Institute, University of Munich, Germany
Alexander Borst	1993 – 99	Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany
Martin Bähler	1991 – 97	University of Münster, Germany
Christian Lehner	1990 – 96	University of Zurich, Switzerland
Stefan Jentsch	1988 – 93	Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Jürgen Bolz	1987 – 93	University of Jena, Germany
Claudia Stürmer	1986 – 90	University of Konstanz, Germany
Peter Ekblom	1984 – 90	University of Uppsala, Sweden
Walter Birchmeier	1982 – 88	Max Delbrück Center, Berlin, Germany
Rolf Kemler	1981 – 87	Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology, Freiburg, Germany
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard	1981 – 85	Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
Matthias Wabl	1978 – 84	University of California, San Francisco, USA
Heinz Wässle	1977 – 81	Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany
Wilfried Seifert	1975 – 82
Reinhard Kurth	1975 – 81	Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
Wolfgang Hennig	1974 – 78	Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, China
Dieter Oesterhelt	1973 – 74	Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Günter Gerisch	1969 – 75	Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Uli Schwarz	1969 – 74	Shanghai Institute for Advanced Studies, China
Rolf Knippers	1969 – 73	University of Konstanz, Germany
Friedrich Bonhoeffer	1969 – 72	Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

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• Friedrich Miescher Laboratory