Ulrike Gaul

Ulrike Gaul (5 August 1960 Möckmühl – 14 June 2020) was a German developmental biologist.

Ulrike Gaul studied biochemistry and physics at the University of Tübingen. In 1988, she received her doctorate from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. Subsequently, she conducted research at the University of Washington and the University of California, Berkeley. From 1993, she was a professor at Rockefeller University. In 2009, she accepted an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, where she worked at the Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPSM). 

Her scientific work focused on the analysis of the role of glial cells in the nervous system of fruit flies, as well as systems biology studies on gene regulation in developmental biology. 

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