Education
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1981 | Sc. B. Biology, Brown University |
1988 | Ph. D. Microbiology, University of California, Los Angeles
Thesis Advisor: Kathryn Calame |
Awards
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1977 | New York State Regents Scholar |
| National Merit Scholar |
1988 | Association of Academic Women
Graduate Woman of the Year |
| Sydney C. Rittenberg Award for Distinguished
Academic Achievement in Microbiology |
Fellowships and Teching Assistanceships
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1980 | Teaching Assistant for Biochemistry, Brown University |
1982 - 1983 | Teaching Assistant for Immunology, UCLA |
1983 - 1986 | NRSA Predoctoral Training Grant in Genetic Mechanisms |
1986 - 1987 | American Association of University Women
Predoctoral Fellowship |
1989 - 1992 | Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Cancer Research
Postdoctoral Fellowship |
1993 | American Cancer Society, California Division
Postdoctoral Fellowship |
1994 - 1995 | EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship |
Research Positions held
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06/1979 - 09/1979 | Summer Student Program
Sloan-Kettering Institute, Rye, New York
Transport of IgA Across the Intestine of Gnotobiotic Miniature Swine
Supervisor: Yoon Berm Kim |
06/1980 - 01/1981 | Independent Study
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Antibodies Activating the Activity of Beta-galactosidase
Supervisor: Boris Rotman |
09/1981 - 06/1982 | Research Assistant
Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island
Supression of Cell-Mediated Immune Responsiveness in Leukemic AKR Mice
Supervisor: Maurice Albala |
09/1982 - 06/1988 | Graduate Student
University of California, Los Angeles
Molecular Analysis of an Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Promoter
Thesis Advisor: Kathryn Calame |
09/1988 - 10/1993 | Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, San Francisco
Organization of Developmental Compartments in Drosophila
Laboratory of Thomas Kornberg |
11/1993 - 01/1997 | Postdoctoral Fellow
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Cell Polarity in Drosophila
Laboratory of Kai Simons |
02/1997 - 01/2000 | European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Staff Scientist
Cell Biology/Development |
01/2000 - present | Group Leader
Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden |
Recent invited Talks at International Meetings
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2001 | April, 2001 EMBO Workshop: Embryonic |
| Organizer Signalling: The Next Frontiers |
| June, 2001 Gordon Research Conference on Developmental Biology |
| July, 2001 4th Workshop on Developmental Cell biology of Drosophila, Walberberg |
2002 | July, 2002 FESEB Summer Research Conference:
Protein Lipidation, Signaling and Membrane Domains |
| August, 2002 Santa Cruz Conference on Developmental Biology |
| October, 2002 Fondacion des Treilles: Control of Information Transfer Through the Extracellular Environment |
2003 | January, 2003 Instituto Juan March de Estudios e Investigaciones: Membranes Trafficking and Signalling During Animal Development |
| May, 2003 Instituto Juan March de Estudios e Investigaciones; The dynamics of morphogeneis: Regulation of cell and tissue movements in development |
| June, 2003 EMBO Workshop
Boundaries in Development: 30 Years of Progress |
Recent invited Seminars
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2001 | May, 2001 Universite Nice Sophia Antopolis |
| November, 2001 IMP Vienna |
2002 | September, 2002 Max Planck Institute für Entwicklungsbiologie, Tuebingen |
| December, 2002 MRC London |
2003 | March, 2003 Katholieke Universiteit Leuwen |
| February, 2003 Universitaet Muenster |
Participation in Teaching
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| EMBL Predoc course 1999
Lecture: epithelial polarity
Practical: isolation of Drosophila raft membranes |
| MPI Predoc course, 2001
Lecture: Drosophila as a model system
Lecture: cell polarity
Practical: clonal analysis and immunohistochemistry in Drosophila |
| MPI Predoc course, 2002
Lecture: epithelial polarity
Practical: clonal analysis and immunohistochemistry in Drosophila |
Workshop organized
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06/2002 | Minisymposium on morphogen gradients 2002 ELSO meeting, Nice |
Grants
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| DFG SPP-1111, Zellpolaritaet |
Reviewed Manuscripts for
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| Public Library of Science |
| Cell |
| Nature |
| Science |
| Development |
| Mechanisms of Development |
| Faculty of 1000 |
Students trained
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2000 | Michael Hannus,
Presently a postdoc at Cenix, Dresden |
2001 | Valentina Greco,
Presently a postdoc with Elaine Fuchs at Rockefeller University, New York |
Committees
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2000 - 2001 | Seminar committee |
2003 | Library committee |
