Werner Arber#
| Membership Number: | 255 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 1996 Professor Emeritus
- 1996 - 1999 President of the International Council for Science (ICSU)
- 1986 - 1988 Rector of the University of Basel
- 1971 - 1996 Full Professor in Molecular Microbiology, Biozentrum, University of Basel
- 1970 - 1971 Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley
- 1965 Associate Professor in Molecular Biology, University of Geneva
- 1962 Privatdocent, University of Geneva
- 1960 Research assistant, University of Geneva
- 1958 - 1959 Postdoctoral stay at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Fields of Scholarship
- Microbial genetics
- Horizontal gene transfer
- Bacterial restriction and modification systems
- Mobile genetic elements
- Site-specific recombination
- Molecular mechanisms of biological evolution
Honours and Awards
- 1978 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics
- 1989-2000 Member of the Swiss Science Council
- Member of various international scientific academies
- Dr. h.c. of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, of the Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg and of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
