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WeigelWorld moved from the Salk Institute in San Diego to the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen in fall 2002. The new facilities include a 5,000 sq. ft. lab and 4,000 sq. ft. plant growth space.

The Max Planck Institutes include many of the world's premier research institutions. Among the colleagues at the MPI in Tübingen is Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Nobel Laureate 1995, who is studying development in zebrafish and flies. Other departments focus on biochemical mechanisms and cell biology (Elisa Izaurralde), animal evo-devo and ecological genetics (Ralf Sommer), and protein evolution (Andrei Lupas).

We are collaborating also with colleagues at our sister institutions in Tübingen, the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, and the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory, and with the "Center for Bioinformatics Tübingen":http://www.zbit.uni-tuebingen.de/.

Plant biology colleagues in Tübingen include Gerd Jürgens, Fritz Schöffl, Klaus Harter and Thorsten Nürnberger, who are at the University, in the Center for Plant Molecular Biology.