Detlev Arendt PhD

Detlev Arendt studied Biology at the University of Freiburg, Germany. In 1994, as an undergraduate, he revived the classical concept that vertebrates inverted their dorsoventral axis during their evolution in a Scientific Correspondence to Nature. He obtained his Ph.D. in zoology in 1998 from the University of Freiburg, where he compared nervous system development of bilaterian animals. In 1999, he joined the lab of Joachim Wittbrodt at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, where he worked on eye development.