Prof. Bernd Schierwater Institute for Animal Ecology and Cell Biology, Germany

Bernd Schierwater is the world’s leading expert on Placozoa. His lab found more than a dozen new species of the former monotypic phylum, sequenced the first placozoan genome and studies their phylogenetic position, development and ecology in detail. Bernd Schierwater is head of the Institute for Animal Ecology and Cell... read moreBiology in Hannover (Germany) and also works as a Research Associate at Yale University and the AMNH in New York.