Jürgen Knoblich is a German molecular biologist..
Jürgen Knoblich
Welcome to the Knoblich lab
What I cannot create, I do not understand
Richard Feynman
Everything that makes us human is contained within 1.4kg of yellowish tissue that we call the human brain.
Our brain is where we feel love or hate, and from where our most imaginative and most evil thoughts arise.
Since 2005 Deputy Director/Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), Vienna.
In the Knoblich lab we are fascinated by this enormously complex structure and study its formation during embryonic development. Our unique combination of model organisms allows us to study the mechanism of human brain development in a powerful way: We take basic principles from analysis of the simple brain of Drosophila, and transfer them to a human model using three-dimensional cerebral organoids.
Our ability to recreate the process of human neurodevelopment in the lab using the organoid system allows us to investigate what goes wrong when patients develop neurodevelopmental disorders like microcephaly, or severe neuro-psychiatric disorders l