Tbilissi, Republic of Georgia (Former Soviet Union)
Nationality:
Georgian
Family Status:
married, one daughter
University Studies
1971 - 1976
Department of Biochemistry, Tbilissi State University - Diploma and Staatsexamen
Professional Career
1976 - 1981
Institute of Protein Research, Pushtchino-na-Oke, Russia, (Dr. A.S. Girshovich). PhD. Title of the thesis “Localisation of the elongation factor G on the surface of ribosome from E.coli.”
1981 - 1983
Research Scientist, Department of Nucleic acids, Institute of Plant Biochemistry (Dr. T. Beridse), Tbilissi
1983 - 1990
Senior Research Scientist, Department of Cell Biology, Acad. of Sci. of GDR (Former East Germany) (Dr. H. Bielka)
1990 - 1992
Visiting Scientist, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany (Dr. K. Simons)
1992 - 1998
Group Leader, Max-Delbrück-Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
since 1998
Group leader, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics Dresden
Awards
1990 - 1991
EMBO - Long Term EMBO Fellowship
since 2002
Member of the Editorial board of JCB
Conferences: Invited Speaker
2001
Lecture at the University of Göttingen, 2001
ESF meeting on Endocytosis, Tomar, Portugal, 2001
Meeting of French and German Societies of Cell Biology, Strasbourg, 2001
2002
NIH meeting on caveolae and microdomains, Washington, 2002
SFB meeting in Stutgart, 2002
ELSO meeting in Nice, 2002
FEBS meeting in Bergen, Norway 2002
2003
Juan March Conference in Madrid, 2003
Rafts, caveolae and microdomains, Portugal 2003
Participation in Teaching
1993 - 1994
Four semesters at Freie Universitaet Berlin, Biohemistry for Medical doctors and dentists
