Manfred Schartl#
Membership Number: | 5572 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
Elected: | 2021 |
Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Homepage(s): | https://www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/ebch/forschung/research-schartl-group/ |
ORCID: | 0000-0001-9882-5948 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1980 - 1983 Postdoctoral Fellow ,Department of Genetics, University of Gießen
- 1982 Postdoc research at the laboratory of Dr. R. C. Gallo, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
- 1983 - 1984 Lecturer (Hochschulassistent), Department of Genetics, University of Gießen
- 1985 - 1991 Research Group Leader, Gene Center at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried b. Munich
- 1991 - 2019 Full Professor (C4) for Biochemistry, Medical School, University of Würzburg
- Since 2001 Adjunct Professor for Experimental Cancer Research, University of Bergen, Norway
- 2015 Visiting Professor, Department of Biology, National University of Singapore
- 2016 - 2019 Visiting Professor, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA
- Since 2019 Scholar in Residence, Xiphophorus Genetic Stock Center, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, USA
- Since 2020 Senior Research Professor, Medical School, University of Würzburg
Fields of Scholarship
- Comparative genomics
- Developmental biology of sex determination, gonad development and reproduction
- Functional genomics
- Evolution of sex determination mechanisms and sex chromosomes
- Molecular biology of cancer
- Molecular evolution of genes and genomes
Honours and Awards
- 1991 Jenkinson Lecture, Oxford University
- 2007 Prince Hitachi Prize for Comparative Oncology, Japan
- 2004 Doctor honoris causa, University of Bergen, Norway
- 2011 Ray-Chaudhuri Lecture, University of Varanasi, India
- 2011 Election Member German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)
- 2015 NUSS Lecture, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- 2016 Faculty Fellow Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M University, USA