1973 – 2005 | Professor of Molecular Microbiology

Tom Bickle came to the Biozentrum on an EMBO Long Term Fellowship in 1973 and retired as Professor for Molecular Microbiology in 2005. Along the way, he served as Chairman of the Biozentrum (1991-1993) and Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences (1997-1998). His main research interests concerned the biology of complex DNA restriction and modification enzymes and the evolution of DNA recognition specificity.