Universität zu Köln
Cluster of Excellence: Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases

Björn Schumacher, Ph.D.

Curriculum Vitae

From January 2009 Junior research group leader in the Cologne Excellence Cluster “Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases” (CECAD)

 2004-2008 Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Jan Hoeijmakers, Department of Genetics, Erasmus Medical Center,Rotterdam, Netherlands

2004 PhD degree, Max Planck Institute for Biochemistryand Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

2000-2004 PhD student with Dr. Anton Gartner, Department of Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany PhD project: ‘DNA-damage Response in Caenorhabditis elegans

2000 Collaborative research with Dr. Julie Ahringer, Wellcome/CRC Institute, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, on a ‘Genome-wide RNAi screen in C. elegans’

1999-2000 PhD thesis work with Dr. Michael Hengartner and Dr. Anton Gartner, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA, on ‘DNA- damage Response in Caenorhabditis elegans

1999-2000 Graduate student in the PhD program in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology of the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, SUNY Stony Brook

1998-1999 Visiting scholar in the Master’s program of the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, State University of New York(SUNY)at Stony Brook, USA Master’s Thesis ‘Regulation of Nucleotide Exchange on Ras by Inter- and Intramolecular Interactions’ with Dr. Dafna Bar-Sagi, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, SUNY Stony Brook, 30 July 1999

1995-1998 : Studies in Biology (Diplomstudiengang Biologie) Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Germany

 

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