Günter P. Wagner, Ph.D., N.A.S. - Perinatology Research Branch

Alison Richard Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Adjunct Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Yale School of Medicine
Adjunct Professor – Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, and the Perinatology Research Branch, NICHD/NIH/DHHS

Study of Zoology and Mathematical Logics, University of Vienna
Postdoctoral Training – Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
Postdoctoral Training – Department of Anatomy, University of Göttingen
Postdoctoral Training – Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

Discovered transcription factor evolution though altered allosteric effects.
Discovered the inflammatory reaction to embryo attachment in opossum, a likely homolog to the inflammatory phase of embryo implantation in placental mammals.
Homology, Genes and Evolutionary Innovation (2014) Princeton University Press [winner of the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences].

Evolution of female reproductive biology of mammals
Evolution of cell types
Evolution of gene regulation: transcription factor protein evolution, the role of transposable elements in gene regulatory network evolution

Griffith OW, Chavan AR, Protopapas S, Maziarz J, Romero R, Wagner GP. Embryo implantation evolved from an ancestral inflammatory attachment reaction. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Aug 8; 114:E6566-E6575. PMID: 28747528
Emera D, Romero R, Wagner G. The evolution of menstruation: a new model for genetic assimilation: explaining molecular origins of maternal responses to fetal invasiveness. Bioessays. 2012 Jan; 34:26-35. PMID: 22057551
Lynch VJ, May G, Wagner GP. Regulatory evolution through divergence of a phosphoswitch in the transcription factor CEBPB. Nature. 2011 Nov 13; 480:383-386. PMID: 22080951