Max Planck Institute for Biology

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rdf:langString The Max Planck Institute for Biology is located in Tübingen, Germany, and has been re-established in January 2022. The Kaiser Wilhelm Society, the predecessor organization of the Max Planck Society, established various natural science research institutes in the Berlin district of Dahlem in the beginning of the 20th century. Among them was the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology. The main aim of the newly established institutes was to supplement the universities and academies with research in the natural sciences and thus also to keep Germany internationally competitive. In the following decades, scientists there and at the Institute of Biochemistry realized the importance of viruses as model organisms for understanding biological processes. Thus, they establish a working group in the field of virus research.In 1941, Nobel Prize winner Adolf Butenandt, together with his colleagues Alfred Kühn and Fritz von Wettstein, set up their own working group for virus research. Two years later, parts of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology moved to the safer city of Tübingen. After the foundation of the Max Planck Society in 1948, the institute was renamed to the Max Planck Institute for Biology, which closes its doors in 2004 as part of consolidation measures. But the aforementioned subsidiary institute for virus research has long since broadened its base and is experiencing a new flowering with its new focus on developmental biology. In 1985, ithis was renamed the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. Ten years after her appointment as Director of Department for Genetics, Professor Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard brings the Nobel Prize for Physiology to Tübingen in 1995. In the third millennium, the institute was consistently expanding its research fields. With its broadened research, which range from biochemistry and cell biology to genome research in an evolutionary and ecological context, the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology became renamed the Max Planck Institute for Biology in January 2022.