Project partners

The ZF-MODELS consortium currently consists of seventeen partner organizations in seven European countries: France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, as well as in the U.S.A.

The project is coordinated by the Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie in Tübingen, Germany.

List of organizations and principal investigators

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V., München, Germany (MPG)

Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie, Tübingen (MPI EB)
Robert Geisler (Scientific Coordinator)
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Max-Planck-Institut of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden (MPI CBG)
Carl-Philipp Heisenberg
Max-Planck-Institut für Immunbiologie, Freiburg (MPI IB)

Matthias Hammerschmidt


Genome Research Ltd, Cambridge, UK (Sanger)

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Jane Rogers
Tim Hubbard
Derek Stemple

Centre Européen de Recherche en Biologie et en Médecine, Illkirch, France (CERBM) (until Dec. 31, 2007)
Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC)
Christine Thisse

Hubrecht Laboratory, Netherlands Institute for Developmental Biology, Utrecht, Netherlands
Hubrecht Laboratory, Netherlands Institute for Developmental Biology
Ronald Plasterk
Edwin Cuppen
Freek van Eeden

The University of Sheffield, UK (USFD)
Centre for Developmental Genetics
Philip Ingham
Henry Roehl
Tanya Whitfield

University College London, UK (UCL)
Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology
Stephen Wilson
Jon Clarke

Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France (INSERM)
U368 INSERM: "Biologie Moléculaire du Developpement"
Frédéric Rosa

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany (U Freiburg)
Fakultät für Biologie / Biologie I / Laboratory of Developmental Biology
Wolfgang Driever

University of Bergen, Norway (UiB)
Sars Centre for Marine Biology
Thomas Becker

Universita' degli Studi di Padova, Italy (UNIPAD)
Dipartimento di Biologia
Francesco Argenton
Marino Bortolussi
Giorgio Valle

GSF-Research Center for Environment and Health, Neuherberg, Germany (GSF)
GSF – Institute of Developmental Genetics
Laure Bally-Cuif

Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Unité Macrophages et Développement de l'Immunité, Dépt de Biologie du Développement

Philippe Herbomel

 

Leiden University, Netherlands (LEI)
Institute of Biology

Herman Spaink
Annemarie Meijer

 

ETH - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland (ETH Zurich) (until Dec. 31, 2005)
Brain Research Institute

Stephan Neuhauss

 

Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, Germany (FZK)
Institut für Toxikologie und Genetik

Uwe Strähle

 

Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany (TUD)
BIOTEChnologisches Zentrum

Michael Brand

 

Universität Zürich, Switzerland (UZH) (from Jan. 1, 2006, replacing ETH Zurich)
Institute of Zoology

Stephan Neuhauss

 

Gene Bridges GmbH (Gene Bridges) (from Jan. 1, 2007, selected as an additional partner in an open call)

Francis Stewart

 

The Rectors and Visitors of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, U.S.A. (U.Va.) (from Jan. 1, 2008, replacing CERBM)

Department of Cell Biology, School of Medicine
Christine Thisse