User:Diethard Tautz

Diethard Tautz obtained his PhD in Tübingen in 1983. After postdoc positions at the Department of Genetics in Cambridge (1983-1985) and the Max-Planck Institute in Tübingen (1985-1988), he started an own group at the Department of Genetics in Munich (1988-1990) and became then Professor at the Department of Zoology in Munich (1991-1998). From 1998 to 2006 he held the chair for "Evolutionary Genetics" at the Department of Genetics in Cologne and he is now director at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön/Germany. His research interests have focussed on studying the evolution of developmental processes, as well as on genome evolution, population genetics and speciation. His current interests focus specifically on understanding the genetic basis of adaptations in natural populations of the house mouse. link to homepage: http://www.evolbio.mpg.de/english/abteilungen/evolutionsgenetik/index.html