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 | Ernst Hafen
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| Ernst Hafen obtained his PhD from the Biocenter at the University of Basel in 1983. After a position as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California in Berkeley from 1984 to 1986, he joined the Zoological Institute of the University of Zurich as an assistant professor in 1987. After promotion to associate (1994) and full professor (1997) he served as the director of the Zoological Institute from 2004 to 2005. In 2005 he accepted a professorship at the Institute of Molecular Systems Biology at the Department of Biology at ETH Zurich. From 2005 to 2007 he served as president of ETH Zürich. Ernst Hafen has made key contributions to the field of developmental biology and cell biology. These include the development of an in situhybridization method and its application to the localization of transcripts from homeotic genes and segmentation genes, the characterization of genes and the corresponding signaling pathways involved in photoreceptor cell fate specification and in the control of cell and body size. He received several prizes and has served on the Editorial Boards of various journals and scientific committees including the review board of the Swiss National Science Foundation. He is a co-founder of the Genetics Company, a privately held biotech company in Zurich-Schlieren. | |
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