Groupleader: Christian Ungermann

EDUCATION

• October 1988-August 1991 Studies in biochemistry at Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen


• September 1991-July 1993 Graduate studies in biochemistry and biophysics at Oregon State University in the laboratory of Prof. Christopher K. Mathews, Corvallis, U.S.A.


• September 1993-November 1996 Doctorate studies in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Dr. Walter Neupert at the Institute for Physiological Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München


• November 1996- May 1999 Postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. William Wickner at the Department of Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, U.S.A.


• since May 1999 Junior group leader at the Biochemie Zentrum Heidelberg (BZH)


• June 2003 Venia legendi (Habilitation), Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg


• 2006 Full professor of Biochemistry, Hans-Mühlenhoff Endowed Chair (Stiftungsprofessur) at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Osnabrück

FUNDING and AWARDS

• August 1994-August 1996 Predoctoral fellowship of the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds, Stuttgart, Germany
   
• January 1997-January 1999 Postdoctoral fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn, Germany
   
• May 1999 Stipend of the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft "Nachwuchsgruppen in den Biowissenschaften" (UN111/2-1)
   
• July 2000 associated member of the Sonderforschungsbereich 352 "Molekulare Mechanismen intrazellulärer Transportprozesse"
   
• February 2001 DFG Funding for a collaborative project with Dieter Langosch (TU Munich) " Role of SNARE transmembrane regions in vacuole fusion" (LA 699/8-1)
   
• 2003-2005 member of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme (EMBO-YIP)
   
• July 2003 recipient of a Heisenberg-Stipend of the DFG
   
• June 2004 Member of the SFB 638



• September 2004 Schering Habilitation price of the GBM