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Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Amparo Acker-Palmer

Vorstand 2015-2017

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Amparo Acker-Palmer

Sektionssprecherin "Molekulare Neurobiologie"

Institute of Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Department of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology
Goethe University Frankfurt
Max‐von-Laue‐Str.15
60438 Frankfurt am Main
Phone: +49 (0) 69-798 42563
Fax: +49 (0) 69-798 42564
Email: Acker-Palmer@bio.uni-frankfurt.de
Homepage: http://neuro-vessel-frankfurt.de
 


 
 

CURRICULUM VITAE

Place and date of birth:  Sueca, Spain 10.09.1968, married, 2 children
 

EDUCATION

1996 PhD Biology Instituto de Investigaciones Citologicas, University Valencia, Spain.1996, Dr. Erwin Knecht
1986-1991 Bachelor Biology-Biochemistry, University of Valencia (Spain)

 

CURRENT POSITION(S)

07/2014 present Max Planck Fellow, MPI for Brain Research, Frankfurt
01/2012     present Faculty Focus Program Translational Neurosciences (FTN), University Mainz
04/2011 present Full Professor. Chair Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Goethe University Frankfurt

 

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

04/2010 Call Full Professor Heinrich-Heine-Düsseldorf University/Director of the Institute of Cellular Biophysics in the Research Center Jülich GmbH of the Helmholtz Society. Declined.
11/2007-03/2011  Professor W2 Cluster of Excellence „Macromolecular Complexes” (CEF), Goethe University Frankfurt
08/2001-10/2007 Max Planck Independent Junior Research Group Leader. MPI of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany
07/1996-07/2001 Postdoctoral fellow, EMBL, Heidelberg, Developmental Biology Programme, Prof. Rüdiger Klein and Prof. Angel Nebreda. EU TMR Marie Curie Fellowship.

 

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2014        Max Planck Fellow
2014 Member of the Academia Europaea
2012 Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
2012 Gutenberg Forschungskolleg (GFK) Fellow
2010 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstädter Prize for Young Investigators
1996-1998 Training and Mobility of Researchers (TMR) EU
1997 Ph.D. Extraordinary Award by Valencia University

 

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

since 2013       Deputy-Speaker SFB 1080 “Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Neuronal Homeostasis" Mainz/Frankfurt
since 2012 Speaker GRADE-Brain (Frankfurt University). GRADE is the central research academy of the Goethe University.
since 2011 Vice-speaker of the Rhine-Main-Neuroscience Network (rmn2).
2009-2012 Board of Directors Cluster of Excellence Macromolecular Complexes

MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

 
Member: Academia Europaea, German Academy of Science Leopoldina, Marie Curie Fellowship Association, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), German Neuroscience Society, German Society for Cell Biology, German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Interdisciplinary Center for Neuroscience Frankfurt, Rhine-Main-Neuroscience Network (rmn2), Interdisciplinary Center for Membrane Proteomics Frankfurt (CMP), Cluster of Excellence “Macromolecular Complexes” (CEF), Cluster of Excellence “Cardio-Pulmonary System” (ECCPS)
 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Developmental Neurobiology (synapse formation, dendritic arborization, cortex development); Synaptic plasticity; Neurovascular Link (instructive roles of vessels during neuronal development, Blood brain Barrier); Angiogenesis (Developmental retinal angiogenesis and pathological angiogenesis of solid tumors); Tumor Biology (progression and invasion of gliomas, tumor metastasis)
 

PUBLICATIONS

  • Henze A-T, Garvalov BK, Seidel S, Cuesta A, Ritter M, Filatova A, Foss F, Dopeso H, Essmann CL, Maxwell PH, Reifenberger G, Carmeliet P, Acker-Palmer A# and Acker T# (2014) Loss of PHD3 allows tumours to overcome hypoxic growth inhibition and sustain proliferation through EGFR. Nature Communications, in press, #corresponding authors
  • Garvalov BK, Foss F, Henze, AT, Bethani I, Gräf-Höchst S, Singh D, Filatova A, Dopeso H, Seidel S, Damm M, Acker-Palmer A# and Acker T# (2014) PHD3 regulates EGFR internalization and signaling in tumours Nature Communications, in press #corresponding author
  • Geiger JC, Lipka J, Segura I, Hoyer S, Schlager MA, Wulf PS, Weinges S, Demmers J, Hoogenraad CC and Acker-Palmer A (2014) The GRIP1/14-3-3 pathway coordinates cargo trafficking and dendrite development. Developmental Cell 28:381-393
  • Senturk A, Pfennig S, Weiss A, Burk K and Acker-Palmer A (2011) EphrinBs are essential components of the Reelin pathway to regulate neuronal migration. Nature 472: 356-60; 478:27
  • Sawamiphak S, Seidel S, Essmann CL, Wilkinson G, Pitulescu ME, Acker T and Acker- Palmer A (2010) EphrinB2 regulates VEGFR2 function in developmental and tumour angiogenesis. Nature 465:487–491
  • Essmann, C.L., Martinez, E., Geiger, J., Zimmer, M., Traut, M., Stein, V., Klein, R. and Acker- Palmer, A. (2008) Serine phosphorylation of ephrinB2 regulates trafficking of synaptic AMPA receptors. Nature Neuroscience 11: 1035 – 1043
  • Segura, I., Eβmann, C. L., Weinges, S. and Acker-Palmer, A. (2007) Grb4 and GIT1 transduce ephrinB reverse signals modulating spine morphogenesis and synapse formation Nature Neuroscience 10: 301-310