title: Investigator profile. An interview with Robert Geisler, Ph.D. Interview by Vicki Glaser.
abstract: Robert Geisler, Ph.D., is Group Leader at the Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie, in Tübingen, Germany. His research focus is on genome mapping and gene expression profiling in the zebrafish. He completed a Bachelor's degree in physiological chemistry and a doctorate in genetics at Tübingen University. Dr. Geisler pursued a postdoctoral fellowship in zebrafish genomics in the laboratory of Pascal Haffter, at MPI für Entwicklungsbiologie, where he developed methods and software for large-scale PCR-based mapping of zebrafish mutations and genes. He has been Scientific Advisor of the ZFIN database project since 2001.
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie, Tübingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Geisler