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DGZ ELECTION
Prof. Carien Niessen
as Member of the Advisory Board
Education/career:
Study of Biology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands until 1991. 1991-1996: PhD thesis
work in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Arnoud Sonnenberg at the Netherlands Cancer Institute
in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on intracellular and extracellular interactions of the integ-
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4. 1997-2001: Netherlands Cancer Society (KWF) fellow, Charles A. Dana Fellow in
the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Barry Gumbiner at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New
York, USA. 2002-2008: Independent group leader Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne,
University of Cologne, 2008-2018: Professor, Molecular Dermato-oncology, Department of Dermatology and
PI CECAD. Since 2019: Professor and Cell Biology of the Skin and Scientific coordinator CECAD, University of
Cologne
Memberships:
DGZ, NGZ, ASCB, ESDR and SID
Prof. Dr. Simone Reber
as Member of the Advisory Board
Education/career:
Study of Molecular Biology at the University of Heidelberg, research stays at the University
of Washington, Seattle and the ETHZ. Diploma at EMBL with Michael Knop (2003). PhD
with Oliver Gruss at ZMBH and University of Heidelberg (2007), Postdoctoral fellow with
Tony Hyman at the MPI-CBG in Dresden (2008-2014), Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu
Berlin (2014/2015), since 2015 independent research group leader at the IRI Life Sciences
at the Humboldt-
Berlin zu Berlin, since 2016 Whitman Center Scientist, since 2018 W2 Professor for Biochemistry at the
University of Applied Sciences Berlin
Dr. Anne Straube
as Member of the Advisory Board
Education/career:
Anne Straube studied Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Hamburg. She did her PhD
with Gero Steinberg at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and the Max Planck
Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg working on the microtubule dependent
transport in the fungus Ustilago maydis. She then moved as a Postdoctoral Fellow to the
Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology in Edinburgh, to study microtubules in muscle cell
with Andreas Merdes. In 2007 she started her own lab at the Marie Curie Research Insti-
tute (MCRI) in Oxted. In 2010 Anne moved to the University of Warwick to help found the Centre for Mecha-
nochemical Cell Biology. She is a Lister Institute Research Prize Fellow, Associate Professor in Mechanochemi-
cal Cell Biology and the Director of the MSc program in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research.
