Carl-Philipp Heisenberg

Carl-Philipp Heisenberg received his Ph.D. degree from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany in 1997. He then went on to work as a Marie Curie and EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow at University College London, in the United Kingdom from 1997-2000. In 2000, he was appointed as Emmy-Noether Fellow and Independent Group Leader at Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics in 2000 and later, also, assumed a Senior Faculty position in 2005 at the same institute. His research interest lies in the cellular mechanisms that underlie morphogenetic movements during zebrafish gastrulation. In particular, his group looks at contribution of single genes on cell movement and cell shape changes, and works to determine how cellular rearrangements contribute to tissue morphogenesis during zebrafish gastrulation.