Diethard Tautz 
 
 

Name:  Diethard T a u t z 
Date of birth: 17 August 1957 in Glonn/ Germany 
Nationality: German
married, three children 

Education:
1963 - 1976 school and "Abitur" in Grafing / München
1976 - 1978 study of Biology at the University of Frankfurt/Main
1978 - 1981 study of Biology at the University of Tübingen
May 1981 Diploma in Biology
1981 - 1982 work for Ph.D. thesis at the "Max-Planck Institut für Biologie" in Tübingen
1982 - 1983 continuation of Ph.D. thesis at the EMBL in Heidelberg
May 1983 Ph.D. in Biology
1983 - 1985 postdoc at the University of Cambridge (England), Department of Genetics (Dr. Dover)
1985 - 1987 postdoc at the "Max-Planck Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie" in Tübingen (Dr. Jäckle)
Juli 1988 "Habilitation" at the University of Tübingen
1988 - 1990 Akademischer Rat" (independent group leader) at the Department of Genetics and Microbiology / University of Munich
1991- 1998 C3-Professor for Molecular Evolution at the Department of Zoology / University of Munich
Nov.1998-Aug. 31, 2007 C4-Professor for Molecular Evolution at the Institute for Genetics/ University of Cologne
since Sept. 2007

Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionsbiologie

Abt. Evolutionsgenetik

August-Thienemann-Str. 2

24306 Ploen (Germany)

Tel.: 04522-763-390

E-mail: tautz@mpil-ploen.mpg.de

Honors:
Ausbildungsstipendium der DFG (1985) 
"Gerhard Hess Preis der DFG" for excellent young researchers (1990) 
"Philip Morris Preis" for the development of microsatellites as a molecular genetic screening tool (1995) 
"De Snoo-van´t Hoogerhuys-Preis" for the work in evolutionary developmental biology (The Netherlands, 1998)
Elected EMBO member (2001)

Functions:
Councillor of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology (since 1999)
Member of "Gutachterkreis des Förderschwerpunktes Biodiversität und
                   Globaler Wandel (BIOLOG) des BMBF" (1999-2003)
Member of the "Vorstand der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft" (since 2000)
Member of the "Beirat des Instituts für Zoo- und Wildtierforschung, IZW Berlin" (since 2000)
Acting Head of Department of Genetics (2000-2002)

Editorial Activities:
"Editor in Chief" of Development Genes and Evolution
"Associate Editor" of Molecular Biology and Evolution
Member of "Editorial Board" of Molecular and Developmental Evolution
Member of "Editorial Board" of Evolution & Development
Member of "Editorial board" of Molecular Ecology
Member of "Editorial board" of Trends in Genetics
Member of "Editorial board" of Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics
Member of "Editorial board" of Journal of Evolutionary Biology 
Invited speaker to conferences in the past five years:
Annual meeting of Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Boston 1998
Conference Jaques Monod on Developmental Biology, Aussois 1998
Novartis Foundation Symposium on Homology, London 1998
Workshop Developmental Biology and Evolution, Foundation des Treilles 1998
Workshop Origin of the Hexapods, Paris 1999
Annual meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology, Charlottsville 1999
Workshop Comparative Developmental Biology, Warwick 1999
Oskar Hertwig Symposium, Berlin 1999
Meeting of European Society of Evolutionary Biology, Barcelona 1999
Symposium on Molecular Variability of Chimpanzees, Leipzig 2000
Workshop Biological Evolution and Statistical Physics, Dresden 2000
Meeting of Gesellschaft für Entwicklungsbiologie, Ulm 2001
Mosbacher Kolloquium Evolution - in vivo, in vitro and in Machina, Mosbach 2001
Annual meeting of Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution, Athens 2001
Workshop Developmental basis of evolutionary change, Chicago 2001
Segmentation meeting,  Nara  2001
Microarray Technology in Evolutionary Biology, Bern 2001
Neurobiology Conference ìLADISLAV TAUCî, Gif-sur-Yvette 2001
Lausanne Genomics Days: Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics, Lausanne 2001
International Conference on Morphogenesis and Pattern Formation, Nagoya 2002
EMBO Conference "Frontiers in Molecular Biology", Oslo 2002
Sustainable development of the Mediterranean and Black Sea environment, Thessaloniki 2003
4th European Congress of Mammalogy, Brno 2003
18th European Drosophila Research Conference, Göttingen 2003
8. Croatian Biological Congress (Opening Adress), Zagreb 2003
Organizer or Co-organizer of meetings: 
Jahrestagung der deutschen Entwicklungsbiologischen Gesellschaft, München 1993 
Session at the 5th Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, Budapest 1996 
Convenor and Session at the XX International Congress of Entomology, Firenze 1996 
DFG workshop on Development and Evolution, Tutzing 1996 
International workshop: Molecules and Morphology in Systematics, Paris 1997 
Annual meeting of the society of molecular Biology and Evolution, Berchtesgaden 1997 
DFG workshop on Development and Evolution, Tutzing 1998 
Workshop Adaptive Speciation, Laxenburg 1999
DFG workshop on Development and Evolution, Tutzing 2000
Cologne Spring Meeting Evolutionary Genomics and Bioinformatics, Köln 2001
Organizer and/or member of research programs:
Organizer of the DFG Schwerpunktprogramm "Evolution of developmental mechanisms" 
Co-organizer of the DFG Schwerpunktprogramm "Evolution of social systems" 
Member of the Sonderforschungsbereich "Mechanisms and factors of gene activation" 
Member of the Graduierten Kolleg "Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Development"
Member of SFB 572 "Festlegung von Zellverbänden und Zelltypspezifizierung"
Member of Graduate School "Genetics and Functional Genomics"
 

Complete List of Publications
 
last change: Oct. 28, 2003