Project partners

The ZF-MODELS consortium currently consists of sixteen partner organizations in seven European countries: France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

The project is coordinated by the Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie in Tübingen, Germany.

List of organizations and principal investigators

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V., München, Germany (MPG)

Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie, Tübingen (MPI EB)
Robert Geisler (Scientific Coordinator)
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Max-Planck-Institut of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden (MPI CBG)
Carl-Philipp Heisenberg
Max-Planck-Institut für Immunbiologie, Freiburg (MPI IB)
Matthias Hammerschmidt

Genome Research Ltd, Cambridge, UK (Sanger)
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Jane Rogers
Tim Hubbard
Derek Stemple

Centre Européen de Recherche en Biologie et en Médecine, Illkirch, France (CERBM)
Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC)
Christine Thisse

Hubrecht Laboratory, Netherlands Institute for Developmental Biology, Utrecht, Netherlands
Hubrecht Laboratory, Netherlands Institute for Developmental Biology
Edwin Cuppen

The University of Sheffield, UK (USFD)
Centre for Developmental Genetics
Philip Ingham
Henry Roehl
Tanya Whitfield
Freek van Eeden

University College London, UK (UCL)
Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology
Stephen Wilson
Jon Clarke

Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France (INSERM)
U784 INSERM: "Biologie Moléculaire du Developpement"
Frédéric Rosa

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany (U Freiburg)
Fakultät für Biologie / Biologie I / Laboratory of Developmental Biology
Wolfgang Driever

University of Bergen, Norway (UiB)
Sars Centre for Marine Biology
Thomas Becker

Universita' degli Studi di Padova, Italy (UNIPAD)
Dipartimento di Biologia
Francesco Argenton
Marino Bortolussi
Giorgio Valle

GSF-Research Center for Environment and Health, Neuherberg, Germany (GSF)
GSF – Institute of Developmental Genetics
Laure Bally-Cuif

Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Unité Macrophages et Développement de l'Immunité, Dépt de Biologie du Développement
Philippe Herbomel

Leiden University, Netherlands (LEI)
Institute of Biology
Herman Spaink
Annemarie Meijer

Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, Germany (FZK)
Institut für Toxikologie und Genetik
Uwe Strähle

Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany (TUD)
BIOTEChnologisches Zentrum
Michael Brand

Universität Zürich, Switzerland (UZH)
Institute of Zoology
Stephan Neuhauss