We are celebrating the 65th birthday of Elisabeth Knust, one of our directors, with a symposium entitled "Polarity, polarity, I love it very much!". The symposium will be held at the MPI-CBG on January 11 & 12, 2016.
Eli Knust joined the MPI-CBG in 2007 and works on the cellular, molecular and genetic mechanisms that control the establishment and maintenance of epithelial cell polarity. She completed her PhD in biology at the University of Düsseldorf, was Assistant Professor at the Institute of Developmental Biology at the University of Cologne from 1983 to 1988), and a Heisenberg Fellow at the University of Cologne and University of Boulder, Colorado (1988-1990). She became Full Professor for Developmental Biology at the University of Cologne in 1990, then moved on to the Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf as Full Professor and Head of the Institute of Genetics in 1996. Elisabeth Knust received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 1997.
Eli thinks it is phantastic and challenging to work with so many talented young people at the MPI-CBG: "This really helps to keep me young". Be there for the birthday symposium - everybody is welcome!