Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) Group Leader Research: "Programming and re-programming of mammalian cells in vitro and in vivo"
05/1998 - 12/2001
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO (UCSF), The G. W. Hooper Foundation (USA) Postdoctoral research Research: "A conditional mouse model for t(8;21) induced leukemia using Cre/loxP technology" Mentor: Prof. J. Michael Bishop Funding: Leukemia and Lymphoma Society fellowship
04/1994 - 05/1998
EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY (EMBL), Gene Expression Program, Heidelberg (Germany) Postdoctoral research (12/1997 - 05/1998) Research: "Generation of designer recombinases through directed molecular evolution" Mentor: Dr. A. Francis Stewart Funding: EMBL postdoctoral fellowship
Education
04/1994 - 12/1997
PhD Thesis Title: "Investigation and development of site specific recombinases for advanced genomic engineering" Supervisor: Dr. A. Francis Stewart Funding: EMBL PhD program fellowship
08/1987- 06/1993
UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN Department of Molecular Genetics (Germany) UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO (UCSD) Department of Molecular Medicine (USA)
09/1991 - 12/1992
Diploma Thesis Title: "Identifizierung, Klonierung und Charakterisierung des gewebespezifisch exprimierten Gens zipI der Ratte" Supervisor: Prof. Michael G. Rosenfeld and Prof. Hans J. Fritz Funding: Education abroad program (EAP), Fulbright fellowship
08/1987 - 06/1993
UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN, Biology Faculty (Germany) Biology degree
Honors and Awards
2003
Research grant of the "Deutsche Jose Carreras Leukämie-Stiftung e.V."
2002
Group Leader position at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
1998
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society postdoctoral fellowship Postdoctoral position at EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory), Heidelberg (Germany)
1997
PhD in Biology from the University in Heidelberg, Germany
1994
Ph.D. position at the EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory), Heidelberg, Germany EMBL Ph.D. program fellowship-recipient
1993
Diploma thesis in Biology, Göttingen, Germany
1991
Education abroad program (EAP) fellowship Fulbright fellowship
Patents
Stewart,-AF; Zhang-Y; Buchholz- F "Novel DNA cloning method" Granted international patent PCT/EP98/07945
Stewart,-AF; Buchholz- F "Substrate linked directed evolution (SliDE)" Approved in UK WO0244409
