Lab Members

Contact

Institute of Molecular & Cellular Anatomy, Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081 Ulm
M24/Room 4308

Research interests

The differentiation of neuronal processes is essential for neuronal information processing. We are interested in proteins and microRNAs that regulate axonal branching, the elaboration of dendritic trees, the differentiation of dendritic spines and the formation of synapses.

CV

1987 – 1989
Study of Human Biology at the Philipps-University, Marburg

1989 – 1990
Study of Biochemistry at the Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen

1990 – 1992
Study of Human Biology at the Philipps-University, Marburg

1992 – 1993
Work for Diploma thesis, Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg, ZMNH (Laboratory Dr. F. G. Rathjen)

1993
Diploma thesis in Human Biology, Philipps-University, Marburg

1994 – 1998
Work for PhD thesis, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine Berlin-Buch (Laboratory Prof. Dr. F. G. Rathjen); Study of Medicine at Charité – Berlin University Medicine

1998
Dr. rer. physiol. examination and degree, Philipps-University, Marburg

1998 – 1999
Postdoctoral Fellow, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine Berlin-Buch (Laboratory Prof. Dr. F. G. Rathjen)

1999 – 2004
Independent junior research group leader, Institute of Cell Biochemistry and Clinical Neurobiology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg

2004 – 2010
Research Assistant (C1), Institute of Cell Biology and Neurobiology, Center for Anatomy, Charité – Berlin University Medicine

2005
Research visit at Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Neurobiology (Prof. Dr. Nenad Sestan)

2009
Offer declined for a W2 professorship (Anatomy) at the University of Jena

since 2010
W3 professorship (Molecular Anatomy) at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Anatomy, Ulm University, Ulm 

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