"Nobel Prize in Medicine" Eric F. Wieschaus Signed 4X6 Card Todd Mueller COA

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Eric Francis Wieschaus
(born June 8, 1947 in
South Bend, Indiana
) is an
American
evolutionary developmental biologist
and 1995 Nobel Prize-winner. Born in
South Bend, Indiana
, he attended
John Carroll Catholic High School
in
Birmingham, Alabama
before attending the
University of Notre Dame
for his undergraduate studies (B.S., biology), and
Yale University
(Ph.D., biology) for his graduate work. In 1978, he moved to his first independent job, at the
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
in
Heidelberg
,
Germany
and moved from Heidelberg to
Princeton University
in the
United States
in 1981.
Much of his research has focused on
embryogenesis
in the fruit fly
Drosophila melanogaster
, specifically in the patterning that occurs in the early
Drosophila
embryo. Most of the gene products used by the embryo at these stages are already present in the unfertilized egg and were produced by maternal transcription during
oogenesis
. A small number of gene products, however, are supplied by transcription in the embryo itself. He has focused on these
"zygotically"
active genes because he believes the temporal and spatial pattern of their transcription may provide the triggers controlling the normal sequence of embryonic development. Saturation of all the possible mutations on each chromosome by random events to test embryonic lethality was done by Eric Wieschaus.
This body of science eventually was termed the
Heidelberg screen
.
In 1995, he was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
with
Edward B. Lewis
and
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
as co-recipients, for their work revealing the genetic control of embryonic development.
As of 2018, Wieschaus is the
Squibb Professor
in
Molecular Biology
at Princeton. He was formerly Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry at the
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
–
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
.