Georg Nagel
Georg Nagel (born 24 August 1953 in Weingarten, Germany) is a biophysicist and professor at the Department for Neurophysiology at the University of Würzburg in Germany. His research is focused on microbial photoreceptors and the development of optogenetic tools.
Scientific career
Georg Nagel studied biology and biophysics at the University of Konstanz, Germany. He received his PhD from the University of Frankfurt in 1988, working at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt. As a postdoc, he worked at Yale University and Rockefeller University, US. From 1992 to 2004, he headed an independent research group in the Department of Biophysical Chemistry at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt. Since 2004, he is a professor at the University of Würzburg, Germany, first at the Department for Molecular Plant Physiology and Biophysics, since 2019 at the Department for Neurophysiology.
Research
Georg Nagel, together with
Awards (selection)
- 2010 Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences, together with Peter Hegemann and Ernst Bamberg[10]
- 2010 Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize, together with Peter Hegemann und Ernst Bamberg[11]
- 2012 Zülch Prize
- 2013 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine,[12] together with Peter Hegemann
- 2013 The Brain Prize,[13] awarded by the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation
- 2015 selected as Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- 2019 Rumford Prize for "extraordinary contributions related to the invention and refinement of optogenetics," with Ernst Bamberg, Ed Boyden, Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Gero Miesenböck.[14]
- 2020 Shaw Prize in Life Sciences.[15]
References
- S2CID 206506942.
- S2CID 24347348.
- PMID 14615590.
- S2CID 6809511.
- S2CID 7036529.
- S2CID 4415339.
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- PMID 26345128.
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- ^ Ninth Annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences Awarded to Dr. Peter Hegemann, Dr. Georg Nagel, and Dr. Ernst Bamberg (wiley.com)
- ^ Preisträger Archived 2010-07-04 at the Wayback Machine of the Karl Heinz Beckurts Foundation (beckurts-stiftung.de)
- ^ Louis-Jeantet Prize
- ^ Peter Hegemann Archived 2015-12-30 at the Wayback Machine thebrainprize.org
- ^ "Rumford Prize Awarded for the Invention and Refinement of Optogenetics". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2019-03-12.
- ^ Shaw Prize 2020
External links
- Forschungsgruppe Prof. Dr. Georg Nagel bei der Universität Würzburg(uni-wuerzburg.de); retrieved 11 April 2018.