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DGZ ELECTION
Liebe Mitglieder der DGZ,
Der Vorstand, drei Beiratsmitglieder und die Kassenprüfer der Gesellschaft sollen neu gewählt werden. Kandidatinnen und Kan-
didaten werden in dieser Ausgabe von CellNews vorgestellt. Sie können mit „ja“, „nein“ oder Enthaltung“ stimmen. Die Wahl wird
online vom 23. November bis 7. Dezember 2020 durchgeführt. Weitere Informationen erhalten Sie zum Start der Wahl per mail.
Bitte nutzen Sie Ihr Stimmrecht!
Mit besten Grüßen
Die DGZ
Dear members of the DGZ,
The board, three representatives of the advisory board and the auditors of the society are to be elected. Candidates are introduced
in the issue of CellNews. You can vote “yes”, “no” or “abstention”. The election will take place online from November 23 to De-
cember 7, 2020. Further information will be communicated via mail upon the start of the election. Please use your voting rights!
Best regards
The DGZ
Prof. Dr. Roland Wedlich-Söldner
as President
Date of birth: 13.02.1974
Institute of Cell Dynamics and Imaging, University of Münster
Education/career:
1992-1997 Study of Biology at the Ludwig-Maximilian’s University Munich; 1997-2001
Graduate student with Prof. Regine Kahmann at Ludwig-Maximilian’s University, Munich
and Max-Planck Institute of terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg; 2002-2005 Postdoc with
Prof. Rong Li, Harvard Medical School, Boston; 2005-2013 Group leader at Max-Planck
Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried; Since 2013 Professor and Director of the Institute of Cell Dynamics and
Imaging, University of Münster.
Memberships:
Cells in Motion cluster of excellence, DGZ, GBM
Research areas:
Cellular self-organization, cytoskeleton dynamics, membrane organization
Selected reading:
Busto et al. (2018) Lateral plasma membrane compartmentalization links protein function and turnover. EMBO
J. pii: e99473.
Wales P et al. (2016) Calcium-mediated actin reset (CaAR) mediates acute cell adaptations. Elife. 5, 19850.
Klingner C et al. (2014). Isotropic acto-myosin dynamics promote organization of the apical cell cortex in
epithelial cells. J Cell Biol. 207, 107-21.
Spira F et al. (2012). Patchwork organization of the yeast plasma membrane into numerous coexisting domains.
Nat Cell Biol. 14, 640-8.
Domínguez-Escobar J et al. (2011). Processive Movement of MreB-Associated Cell Wall Biosynthetic Complexes in
Bacteria. Science 333, 225-8.
Riedl J et al. (2008). Lifeact - a versatile marker for the visualization of F-actin. Nature Methods 5 605-7.
Wedlich-Soldner R et al. (2003). Spontaneous cell polarization through actomyosin-based delivery of the Cdc42
GTPase. Science 299, 1231-5.
