Eric F. Wieschaus
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Eric F. Wieschaus (born June 8, 1947) is an American developmental biologist. Much of his research has focused on embryogenesis in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, specifically in the patterning that occurs in the early Drosophila embryo. Most of the gene products used by the embryo at these stages are already present in the unfertilized egg and were produced by maternal transcription during oogenesis. A small number of gene products, however, are supplied by transcription in the embryo itself. He has focused on these "zygotically" active genes because he believes the temporal and spatial pattern of their transcription may provide the triggers controlling the normal sequence of embryonic development.
As of 2005, Eric Wischaus was the Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology at Princeton University in the United States. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995 with Edward B. Lewis and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard as co-reciepients for their work describing the genetic control of embryonic development.
Eric Wieschaus has three daughters and is married to molecular biologist Gertrud Schüpbach, who is also a professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, working on Drosophila oogenesis.
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