12 3 / 2022 // LEOPOLDINA / NEWS
Joint symposium with Israeli academy
Presidents of two National Academies , Gerald Haug and David Harel , renew their strategic partnership
Gerald Haug ML , President of the Leopoldina , met with representa tives from the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities ( IASH ) and leading Israeli scientific institutions in Jerusalem , Tel Aviv , Rehovot and Haifa .
During his trip , he signed a new agree ment on the strategic partnership between the Leopoldina and IASH with its President , David Harel . This re places the Memorandum of Understanding signed back in 2013 . The agreement was signed at the opening ceremony of the
seventh Neurosciences Symposium held at the headquarters of the Israel Academy in Jerusalem . The symposium in the series organised by the Leopoldina and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities was dedicated to cognition , memory , neurodegenerative disease and brain research .
While in Israel , Haug also visited Yad Vashem – the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre in Jerusalem with David Harel and Jörg Walendy , Deputy Chief of Mission at the German Embassy . ■ LB
Gerald Haug and David Harel , President of the Israel Academy .
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SPECIAL MENDEL MEDAL FOR CHRISTIANE NÜSSLEIN-VOLHARD
Developmental geneticist and Nobel Prize winner Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard ML has been awarded the Leopoldina Special Mendel Medal . The award is in recognition of her pioneering work on the embryonic development of fruit flies and the development and genetics of zebrafish . The prize ceremony was held on the Jägerberg in Halle ( Saale )/ Germany at the celebratory symposium to mark the 200th birthday of Gregor Mendel . “ Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is an exceptional developmental geneticist who is highly respected the world over . She has made ground-breaking discoveries through her research into the genetic control of the embryonic development of fruit flies ,” plant geneticist Ulla Bonas ML , Vice President of the Leopoldina , said in her tribute speech . “ With her innovative work on the development and genetics of zebrafish – and pattern formation in particular – she has once again proven to be a pioneer genetics .” The Mendel Medal is awarded by the Leopoldina for pioneering achievements in the fields of general and molecular biology and genetics . This is the first year there has been a special medal .
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Special Mendel Medal
“ A stroke of luck for the German scientific community ”
Symposium for the 70th birthday of former President Jörg Hacker attended by guests from the worlds of politics and science |
Guests from the worlds of politics and science arrived at the headquarters of the Leopoldina in Halle ( Saale )/ Germany for the celebratory symposium called “ Bacteria , People and Science ” to mark the 70th birthday of former President of the Leopoldina , Jörg Hacker ML .
The speakers at the symposium included the former President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities ,
Nili Cohen , the President of the Leibniz
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At the symposium : Angela Merkel , Volker ter Meulen , Jörg Hacker , Gerald Haug , Reiner Haseloff . |
the President of the Berlin-Brandenburg
Academy of Sciences and Humanities , Christoph Markschies .
Former Chancellor Angela Merkel applauded Jörg Hacker ’ s achievements in science-based policy advice . She referred to Hacker as “ a stroke of good luck for the German scientific community ”. Later on in the symposium , Michael Hecker ML and Carmen Buchrieser ML looked back on the scientific success of the bacteri ologist and his service to science
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Association , Martina Brockmeier , and |
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