Prof. Dr. Amparo Acker-Palmer

• 1991
  Bachelor of Biology (Biochemistry), Valencia University
  
  

• 1992
  Undergraduate research training, University Valencia, Spain
  
  

• 1992
  Visiting research scientist, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Leicester, UK
  
  

• 1993
  Visiting research scientist, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Leicester
  
  

• 1994
  Visiting research scientist, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Leicester
  
  

• 1996
  PhD in Biology, University Valencia, Spain (Supervisor: Erwin Knecht)
  
  

• 1996
  Postdoctoral Fellow, Developmental Biology, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany, Signal Transduction (Supervisor: Angel Nebreda) and Neurobiology (Supervisor: Ruediger Klein)
  
  

• 2001
  Group leader, Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany
  
  

• 2007
  W2 Professor, Cluster of Excellence Macromolecular Complexes (CEF) Goethe University Frankfurt
  
  

• 2010
  Call W3 Professor-Director, Institute of Cellular Biophysics, Research Center Jülich GmbH, Helmholtz Society and the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (declined)
  
  

• Since 2010
  Faculty Buchmann Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, Cluster of Excellence Macromolecular Complexes (CEF), Goethe University Frankfurt
  
  

• Since 2011
  Faculty Forschungszentrum Translationale Neurowissenschaften (FTN), Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
  
  

• Since 2011
  W3 Professor and Department Chair Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Institute of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, Biology Faculty, Goethe University Frankfurt
  
  

• 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.

• Sawamiphak, S., Seidel, S., Essmann, C.L., Wilkinson, G., Pitulescu, M.E., 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., Essmann, 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.

• Palmer, A. and Klein, R. (2003) Multiple roles of ephrins in morphogenesis, neuronal networking, and brain function. Genes & Development 17: 1429-1450.

• Palmer, A., Zimmer, M., Erdmann, K.S., Eulenburg, V., Porthin, A., Heumann, R., Deutsch, U., and Klein, R. (2002). EphrinB phosphorylation and reverse signaling: regulation by Src kinases and PTP-BL phosphatase. Molecular Cell 9: 725-37.

• Palmer, A.; Gavin, A.C. and Nebreda,A.R. (1998) A link between MAP Kinase and p34cdc2/cyclinB during oocyte maturation: p90rsk associates with and phosphorylates the p34cdc2 inhibitory kinase Myt1 EMBO J., 17: 5037-5047.

• Speaker GRADE-Brain (Goethe Graduate Academy), since 2012

• Vice-speaker of the Rhine-Main Neuroscience Network (rmn2), since 2011

• Vice-Speaker (Frankfurt coordinator) Collaborative Research Centre SFB1080 Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Neuronal Homeostasis Mainz/Frankfurt

• Member of the Board of Directors Cluster of Excellence Macromolecular Complexes (CEF), 2009 – 2012

• Board member of the LOEWE Focus project: Neuronal Coordination Frankfurt (NeFF)

• Board member of the LOEWE Focus project: Ocogenic signal transduction Frankfurt (OSF)

• Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

• Member of the Gutenberg Forschungskolleg

• Member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

• Member of the German Neuroscience Society

• Member of the German Society for Cell Biology

• Member of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

• Member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Neuroscience Frankfurt (ICNF)

• Member of the Center for Membrane Proteomics Frankfurt (CMP)

• Member of the Cluster of Excellence Macromolecular Complexes (CEF)

• Member of the Cluster of Excellence Cardio-Pulmonary System (ECCPS)

Other activities and achievements/family

• married, 2 children

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