Dr. Anne-Kathrin Classen, Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg
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Dr. Anne-Kathrin Classen

Nominated by

  • German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • AcademiaNet member since 05.05.2011
  • AcademiaNet- Selection Criteria


Employed by

  • Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg


Academic Discipline/Fields

  • Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics


Field

Biological and related sciences



Area of specialisation

Cell and developmental biology



Research interests

  • Epithelial homeostasis, Tissue regeneration, Signaling, Chromatin, Adhesion, Cytoskeleton



Distinctions and Awards

  • German Research Foundation (DFG) Heisenberg Programme, since 2020

  • Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation Plus3 Programme 2017 – 2020

  • German Research Foundation (DFG) Emmy Noether Programme 2011 – 2016

  • Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund – Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2007 – 2010



Languages

English, German



Doctorate

  • 2006: Hexagonal packing of Drosophila epithelia cells by the Planar Cell Polarity Pathway ("Hexagonal packing of Drosophila epithelia cells by the Planar Cell Polarity Pathway")


PostDoc qualification, e.g. Habilitation

  • 2011: Polycomb states in Drosophila development and regeneration




Short CV/Education and training

  • Since 2020
    Heisenberg Programme, Group Leader Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany

  • 2017 – 2020
    Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation Plus3 Programme, Group Leader Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany

  • 2017
    Interim Professorship ‘Cell Biology’, Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany

  • 2011 – 2016
    Emmy Noether Junior Group Leader, LMU Munich, Germany

  • 2006 – 2011
    Postdoctoral Fellow, Department for Molecular Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley, USA

  • 2002 – 2006
    PhD in Biology, Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

  • 2000 – 2002
    MSc in Biomolecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

  • 1997 – 2000
    BSc in Cell Biology, University of Manchester, UK

Selected publications

  • Balaji R, Weichselberger V, Classen AK

    Response of epithelial cell and tissue shape to external forces in vivo

    Development. 2019. doi: 10.1242/dev.171256

  • Cosolo A, Jaiswal J, Csordás G, Grass I, Uhlirova M, Classen AK

    JNK-dependent cell cycle stalling in G2 promotes survival and senescence-like phenotypes in tissue stress

    Elife. 2019. pii: e41036. doi: 10.7554/eLife.41036



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  1. Cell biologist Dr. Anne-Kathrin Classen awarded DFG Heisenberg grant

    The support from the German Research Foundation (DFG) is worth 500,000 €.

 
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