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Meyer is an elected member of the [[German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina]],<ref>German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. [http://www.leopoldina.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Akademie/Organisation/Neugewaehlte_Mitglieder_2009.pdf Newly elected members 2009] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723061857/http://www.leopoldina.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Akademie/Organisation/Neugewaehlte_Mitglieder_2009.pdf |date=July 23, 2011 }}.</ref> the [[European Academy of Sciences and Arts]],<ref>[http://www.euro-acad.eu/members Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts]</ref> the [[European Molecular Biology Organization]],<ref>[http://www.embo.org/embo-members.html Members of the EMBO]</ref> and the [[Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften]].<ref>[http://www.bbaw.de/die-akademie/mitglieder Members of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften]</ref>
Meyer is an elected member of the [[German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina]],<ref>German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. [http://www.leopoldina.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Akademie/Organisation/Neugewaehlte_Mitglieder_2009.pdf Newly elected members 2009] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723061857/http://www.leopoldina.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Akademie/Organisation/Neugewaehlte_Mitglieder_2009.pdf |date=July 23, 2011 }}.</ref> the [[European Academy of Sciences and Arts]],<ref>[http://www.euro-acad.eu/members Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts]</ref> the [[European Molecular Biology Organization]],<ref>[http://www.embo.org/embo-members.html Members of the EMBO]</ref> and the [[Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften]].<ref>[http://www.bbaw.de/die-akademie/mitglieder Members of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften]</ref>


He has received numerous awards including the [http://www.leopoldina.org/de/akademie/preise-und-auszeichnungen/carus-medaille.html Carus Medal] from the [[German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina]] (2009),<ref>[http://www.leopoldina.org/de/akademie/preise-und-auszeichnungen/carus-medaille.html Germany Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, list of Carus Medal recipients] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723062308/http://www.leopoldina.org/de/akademie/preise-und-auszeichnungen/carus-medaille.html |date=July 23, 2011 }}</ref> the [http://www.embo.org/policy-and-society/science-society/life-sciences-communication-award.html EMBO Award for Communication in Life Science] (2008),<ref>"[http://www.embo.org/documents/press08/communications_award08.pdf Prominent German biologist wins EMBO communication award.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722091616/http://www.embo.org/documents/press08/communications_award08.pdf |date=July 22, 2011 }}" European Molecular Biology Organization, press release.</ref> the [[Guggenheim Fellowship|John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship]] (1996),<ref>[[List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1996]]</ref><ref>[http://www.gf.org/fellows/results?query=Axel+Meyer&lower_bound=1925&upper_bound=2011&competition=ALL&fellowship_category=ALL&x=11&y=5 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, recipient Axel Meyer] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628185337/http://www.gf.org/fellows/results?query=Axel+Meyer&lower_bound=1925&upper_bound=2011&competition=ALL&fellowship_category=ALL&x=11&y=5 |date=June 28, 2011 }}</ref> the Young Investigator Prize from the [[American Society of Naturalists]](1990).,<ref>[http://www.amnat.org/awa.html American Society of Naturalists, Young Investigator Prize, list of recipients] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717135344/http://www.amnat.org/awa.html |date=July 17, 2011 }}</ref> and Hector Science Award 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hector-fellow-academy.de/en/hector-fellow-academy/hector-fellows/hector-fellow-portraits/2012/prof-dr-meyer/index.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-01-14 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150214163337/http://www.hector-fellow-academy.de/en/hector-fellow-academy/hector-fellows/hector-fellow-portraits/2012/prof-dr-meyer/index.htm |archivedate=2015-02-14 |df= }}</ref> Most recently (2017) he was awarded a Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/axel-meyer. His scientific work is widely cited by his peers<ref>Winkler, L. 2010. Laborjournal. [http://www.laborjournal.de/rubric/ranking/R10_06/start.lasso List of most highly cited German Evolutionary Biologist 2004-2007].</ref><ref>[http://www.lab-times.org/labtimes/issues/lt2008/lt03/lt_2008_03_34_36.pdf Publication Analysis 1996-2006: Evolutionary Biology]. [http://www.lab-times.org/labtimes/ranking/index.html Labtimes Online].</ref><ref>[http://www.evolutionsbiologie-uni-konstanz.com/prof-dr-axel-meyer.html 2007-2010 ISI Highly Cited- the world's 250 most cited researchers in Plant & Animal Sciences]</ref> and has been covered by national and international press and media.<ref>http://www.evolutionsbiologie-uni-konstanz.com/press-coverage.html</ref>
He has received numerous awards including the [https://web.archive.org/web/20110723062308/http://www.leopoldina.org/de/akademie/preise-und-auszeichnungen/carus-medaille.html Carus Medal] from the [[German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina]] (2009),<ref>[http://www.leopoldina.org/de/akademie/preise-und-auszeichnungen/carus-medaille.html Germany Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, list of Carus Medal recipients] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723062308/http://www.leopoldina.org/de/akademie/preise-und-auszeichnungen/carus-medaille.html |date=July 23, 2011 }}</ref> the [https://web.archive.org/web/20110709082520/http://www.embo.org/policy-and-society/science-society/life-sciences-communication-award.html EMBO Award for Communication in Life Science] (2008),<ref>"[http://www.embo.org/documents/press08/communications_award08.pdf Prominent German biologist wins EMBO communication award.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722091616/http://www.embo.org/documents/press08/communications_award08.pdf |date=July 22, 2011 }}" European Molecular Biology Organization, press release.</ref> the [[Guggenheim Fellowship|John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship]] (1996),<ref>[[List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1996]]</ref><ref>[http://www.gf.org/fellows/results?query=Axel+Meyer&lower_bound=1925&upper_bound=2011&competition=ALL&fellowship_category=ALL&x=11&y=5 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, recipient Axel Meyer] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628185337/http://www.gf.org/fellows/results?query=Axel+Meyer&lower_bound=1925&upper_bound=2011&competition=ALL&fellowship_category=ALL&x=11&y=5 |date=June 28, 2011 }}</ref> the Young Investigator Prize from the [[American Society of Naturalists]](1990).,<ref>[http://www.amnat.org/awa.html American Society of Naturalists, Young Investigator Prize, list of recipients] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717135344/http://www.amnat.org/awa.html |date=July 17, 2011 }}</ref> and Hector Science Award 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hector-fellow-academy.de/en/hector-fellow-academy/hector-fellows/hector-fellow-portraits/2012/prof-dr-meyer/index.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-01-14 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150214163337/http://www.hector-fellow-academy.de/en/hector-fellow-academy/hector-fellows/hector-fellow-portraits/2012/prof-dr-meyer/index.htm |archivedate=2015-02-14 |df= }}</ref> Most recently (2017) he was awarded a Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/axel-meyer. His scientific work is widely cited by his peers<ref>Winkler, L. 2010. Laborjournal. [http://www.laborjournal.de/rubric/ranking/R10_06/start.lasso List of most highly cited German Evolutionary Biologist 2004-2007].</ref><ref>[http://www.lab-times.org/labtimes/issues/lt2008/lt03/lt_2008_03_34_36.pdf Publication Analysis 1996-2006: Evolutionary Biology]. [http://www.lab-times.org/labtimes/ranking/index.html Labtimes Online].</ref><ref>[http://www.evolutionsbiologie-uni-konstanz.com/prof-dr-axel-meyer.html 2007-2010 ISI Highly Cited- the world's 250 most cited researchers in Plant & Animal Sciences]</ref> and has been covered by national and international press and media.<ref>http://www.evolutionsbiologie-uni-konstanz.com/press-coverage.html</ref>


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Axel Meyer (born August 4, 1960) is an evolutionary biologist and a professor of zoology and evolutionary biology at the Universität Konstanz, Germany.

Meyer is best known for his work on the evolution and adaptive radiation of African cichlid fishes,[1][2] fish-specific genome duplications,[3][4] molecular phylogenetics of vertebrates,[5][6] and the role of ecological and sexual selection in speciation.[7][8]

Education and previous employment

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Meyer (left) and Ernst Mayr in Konstanz in 1998

Meyer attended the gymnasium (high school) Katharineum in Lübeck. He was an undergraduate at the Universität Marburg (1979–1982), and completed his undergraduate thesis at the Universität Kiel and the University of Miami, Florida (1982). He received both his master's and PhD from the Department of Zoology at the University of California Berkeley in 1984 and 1988 respectively. He spent one year as a visiting student in Harvard University's Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (1986–1987).

Meyer was an Alfred P. Sloan Postdoctoral Fellow in Molecular Evolution at University of California Berkeley with Allan C. Wilson, before joining the faculty in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook as an assistant professor. In 1993 he received tenure and was promoted to associate professor. Meyer joined the Universität Konstanz Department of Biology as a full professor in 1997.[9]

Communication of science

Meyer is active in the communication of science to the public. He has written more than 45 articles for major German newspapers including Die Zeit and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.[10] In addition, he contributed a weekly column, Quantensprung, on matters related to science and evolution to the Handelsblatt from 2005-2010.[11] The first 100 articles of Quantensprung were published in 2008 in the book Evolution ist überall.

Awards and recognition

Meyer is an elected member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina,[12] the European Academy of Sciences and Arts,[13] the European Molecular Biology Organization,[14] and the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.[15]

He has received numerous awards including the Carus Medal from the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2009),[16] the EMBO Award for Communication in Life Science (2008),[17] the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1996),[18][19] the Young Investigator Prize from the American Society of Naturalists(1990).,[20] and Hector Science Award 2012.[21] Most recently (2017) he was awarded a Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/axel-meyer. His scientific work is widely cited by his peers[22][23][24] and has been covered by national and international press and media.[25]

Quotation

"In Mrs Schwesig’s federal ministry of family affairs, 70 percent are women. And I would not like to know what percentage is lesbian."[26]


References

  1. ^ Meyer, A., Kocher, T.D., Basasibwaki, P., Wilson, A.C. 1990. Monophyletic origin of Lake Victoria cichlid fishes suggested by mitochondrial DNA sequences. Nature 347 (6293): 550-553. [1] doi:10.1038/347550a0
  2. ^ Verheyen, E., Salzburger, W., Snocks, J. and A. Meyer. 2003. The origin of the superflock of cichlid fishes from Lake Victoria, East Africa. Science 300: 325-329. [2] doi:10.1126/science.1080699
  3. ^ Meyer, A. & M. Schartl. 1999. Gene and genome duplications in vertebrates: the one-to-four (to eight in fish) rule and the evolution of novel gene functions. Curr. Op. Cell Biol. 11: 699-704. [3] doi:10.1016/S0955-0674(99)00039-3
  4. ^ Taylor, J.S., Braasch, I., Frickey, T., A. Meyer and Y. Van de Peer. 2003. Genome duplication, a trait shared by 22,000 species of ray-finned fish. Genome Research 13: 382-390. [4] doi:10.1101/gr.640303
  5. ^ Meyer, A., Wilson, A.C. 1990. Origin of tetrapods inferred from their mitochondrial DNA affiliation to lungfish. J. Mol. Evol. 31: 359-364. [5] doi:10.1007/BF02106050
  6. ^ Zardoya, R., Meyer, A. 1998. Complete mitochondrial genome suggests diapsids affinities of turtles. PNAS 95 (24): 14226-14231
  7. ^ Meyer, A., Morrissey, J.M., Schartl, M. 1994. Recurrent origin of a sexually selected trait in Xiphophorus fishes inferred from a molecular phylogeny. Nature 368: 539-542. [6] doi:10.1038/368539a0
  8. ^ Barluenga, M. Stolting, K.N., Salzburger, W., Muschick, M., Meyer, A. 2006. Sympatric speciation in Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fish. Nature 439: 719-723. [7] doi:10.1038/nature04325
  9. ^ http://www.evolutionsbiologie-uni-konstanz.com/prof-dr-axel-meyer.html
  10. ^ Meyer, A. Popular Press Archive
  11. ^ Quantensrpung archive
  12. ^ German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Newly elected members 2009 Archived July 23, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  13. ^ Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  14. ^ Members of the EMBO
  15. ^ Members of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  16. ^ Germany Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, list of Carus Medal recipients Archived July 23, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  17. ^ "Prominent German biologist wins EMBO communication award. Archived July 22, 2011, at the Wayback Machine" European Molecular Biology Organization, press release.
  18. ^ List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1996
  19. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, recipient Axel Meyer Archived June 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  20. ^ American Society of Naturalists, Young Investigator Prize, list of recipients Archived July 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  21. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-02-14. Retrieved 2015-01-14. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  22. ^ Winkler, L. 2010. Laborjournal. List of most highly cited German Evolutionary Biologist 2004-2007.
  23. ^ Publication Analysis 1996-2006: Evolutionary Biology. Labtimes Online.
  24. ^ 2007-2010 ISI Highly Cited- the world's 250 most cited researchers in Plant & Animal Sciences
  25. ^ http://www.evolutionsbiologie-uni-konstanz.com/press-coverage.html
  26. ^ Gender am Ende? Frauen, Männer und die neue Vielfalt. [8]
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