ÖAW–IST Austria Lecture: Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Channel: ISTAustria
Date: 14/08/2017

On May 30, 2017,  continued the ÖAW-IST Austria Lecture series in the Festive Hall of the Austria Academy of Sciences. She is Honorary Professor at the University of Tübingen and former Director of the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. In 1995, Nüsslein-Volhard was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology. In “The Development of Colour Patterns in Fishes: Towards an Understanding of the Evolution of Beauty” she explained how collective migration of pigment cells, cell interaction and the influence of the tissue environment cause the different color patterns observed in fish. The ÖAW–IST Austria Lecture series brings to Austria speakers of the highest international standing active in fields that are of interest to both institutions and to the wider public.