Prof. Dr. Maria Leptin University of Cologne, Germany
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Maria Leptin is Professor of Developmental Genetics. She originally trained as an immunologist at the Basel Institute for Immunology. She began to work on Drosophila at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK. After running a research group at the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen, Germany, she moved... read moreto Cologne in 1994. Her current interests are the cell biology of morphogenesis, as well as using zebrafish as a model to understand the genetics of pathogen resistance.