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DGZ ELECTION 2018-2020
Date of birth: 23.09.1955
Translational Center for Regenerative Medicine and Institute of Biology, Div. of Cell and Developmental Biolo-
gy, University of Leipzig
Education/career:
1974-1982 Study of biology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (with leave of
absence for Alternative Service) 1982-1987 PhD training with Prof. Werner W. Franke at
the Div. of Cell and Tumour Biology at the German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg
1987-1990 Postdoc with Prof. Franke 1990-1991 Research fellow with Dr. David Melton, Institute of Cell
and Molecular Biology, University of Edinburgh (on leave of absence from German Cancer Centre, Heidelberg)
1991-1993 Recipient of research fellowship from DFG (German Research Association) with Dr. David Melton,
ICMB, Edinburgh 1993-1995 Recipient of Foreign Research Fellowship of Wellcome Trust with Dr. David
Melton, ICMB, Edinburgh 1995-2001 SFB 284 Group leader at the Institute of Genetics, Division of Molecular
Genetics, University of Bonn 1998 Habilitation in Molecular Genetics, University of Bonn 2002-2010 C3 pro-
fessor of Molec. & Cell. Biochemistry, University of Bonn 2010-present W3 professor of Cell & Developmental
Biology at Institute of Biology, University of Leipzig, Germany
Memberships:
Editorial boards of Mol Biol Cell, J Exp Dermatology, scientific advisory board DEBRA International, DGZ, GBM,
ESDR.
Research areas:
Function of the keratin cytoskeleton in epidermal differentiation, barrier function, regeneration and disease.
Selected reading: 88. V Kumar, J-E Bouameur et al. A keratin scaffold regulates epidermal barrier formation,
mitochondrial lipid composition and activity. J Cell Biol 211, in press (2015), J Bohnekamp, DE Cryderman et
al. A fly model of Epidermolysis Bullosa Simplex. J Invest Dermatol, 129, 2015. 21. F Loschke, K Seltmann, J-E
Bouameur and TM Magin. Regulation of keratin network organization. Curr Op Cell Biol, 32, 2015. 38. NS Wer-
ner, R Windoffer et al. Epidermolysis Bullosa Simplex-type mutations reveal an actin-dependent transport of
keratin subunits and alter the dynamics of the keratin cytoskeleton. Mol. Biol. Cell 15, 2004.
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 do-
mains. Nat Cell Biol. 14, 640-8.
Domínguez-Escobar J et al. (2011). Processive Movement of MreB-Associated Cell Wall Biosynthetic Complex-
es 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.
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