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Home » Speakers » Eric Wieschaus
Eric Wieschaus

Eric Wieschaus

Princeton University & Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Nobel Prize

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I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and did my undergraduate work at University of Notre Dame. During my graduate work at Yale University, the professor I was working with (Walter Gehring) decided to return to his home country of Switzerland and I followed him and completed my Ph. D research in Basel, Swizterland. After doing postdoctoral work in Zurich, I took my first job as an independent scientist at the EMBL in Heidelberg.

There I worked with Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard on massive saturation mutagenesis experiments to identify the genes responsible for Drosophila embryonic development. That work was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine in 1995. Since 1981 I have taught at Princeton University. I am married and have three daughters.

Part 2: Dr. Wieschaus is a Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Wieschaus and Nusslein-Volhard (together with E.B. Lewis) were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1995 for the experiments he describes in his talk. His lab continues to study embryonic development using Drosophila as a model system.

Talks with this Speaker

When Stockholm Called

We asked 12 Nobel Laureates to tell us their story of when Stockholm called. (Talk recorded in September 2016)

When Stockholm Called
Audience:
  • General Public
  • Student
  • Researcher
  • Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
  • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 2:42

Collaborating to Find Developmental Genes

While working together as junior faculty, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric Wieschaus made groundbreaking discoveries about developmental genes in fruitflies. (Talk recorded in July 2013)

Wieschaus and NussleinVolhard
Audience:
  • Student
  • Researcher
  • Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
  • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 00:19:56

Finding Genes that Control Development

Eric Wieschaus talks about how he and Christiane Nusslein-Volhard aimed to understand which genes regulated embryonic development in Drosophila. (Talk recorded in February 2009)

Eric Wieschaus
Audience:
  • General Public
  • Student
  • Researcher
  • Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
  • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 10:28

Patterning Development in the Early Embryo: The Role of Bicoid

Eric Wieschaus discusses how initial patterns of gene expression arise in Drosophila and the role of a maternally supplied transcription factor called Bicoid. (Talk recorded in February 2009)

  • Part 1: Patterning Development in the Embryo
    Part 1: Patterning Development in the Embryo
    Audience:
    • Student
    • Researcher
    • Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
    • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
    Duration: 28:28
  • Part 2: Stability of Morphogen Gradients & Movement of Molecules
    Part 2: Stability of Morphogen Gradients & Movement of Molecules
    Audience:
    • Researcher
    • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
    Duration: 37:33
  • Part 3: Evolution of Bicoid-based Patterning in the Diptera
    Part 3: Evolution of Bicoid-based Patterning in the Diptera
    Audience:
    • Researcher
    • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
    Duration: 21:04

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