Dr. Sonja-Verena Albers
Biological and related sciences, Molecular biology, molecular microbiology, biochemistry, membrane protein biochemistry
Biological and related sciences
Genetics, cellular biology, developmental biology
Control of apoptosis during development
Mechanisms of apoptosis
Regulation and function of mitochondrial dynamics
EMBO – European Molecular Biology Organisation, Young Investigator, 2001 – 2004
Leukaemia & Lymphoma Society, Special Fellow, 1997 – 2000
Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research, Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1994 – 1997
Predoctoral fellowship from the German National Academic Foundation, 1991 – 1993
Freiburg Student Exchange Program, Fellow, 1987 – 1988
DAAD Fellowship, 1987
English, German
Jagasia, R. et al.: DRP-1-mediated mitochondrial fragmentation during EGL-1-induced cell death in C. elegans. In: Nature 433, 2005. pp. 754-760.
Grote, P., Conradt, B.: The PLZF-like protein TRA-4 co-operates with the Gli-like transcription factor TRA-1 to promote female development in C. elegans. In: Dev Cell 11, 2006. pp. 561-573.
Schertel, C., Conradt, B.: C. elegans orthologues of components of the Rb tumor suppressor complex have distinct pro-apoptotic functions. In: Development 134, 2007. pp. 3691-3701.
Hatzold, J., Conradt, B.: Control of apoptosis by asymmetric cell division. In: PLoS Biol. 6(4), 2008, Apr 8, e84.
Rolland, S. et al.: The BCL-2-like protein CED-9 of C. elegans promotes FZO-1/Mfn1,2- and EAT-3/Opa1-dependent mitochondrial fusion. In: J. Cell Biol. 186, 2009. pp. 525-540.
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Genetics Society of America
German Society for Genetics
Co-organiser, International C. elegans Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2011
Co-organiser, American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Meeting Mini-Symposium on Cell Death, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2010
Co-organiser, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, C. elegans course, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA, 2010
Co-organiser, Abcam Meeting on Apoptosis and Cancer, Hanover, NH, USA, 2009
Lecturer, Cold-Spring-Harbor Laboratory, C. elegans course, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA, 2008
Lecturer, Cold-Spring-Harbor Laboratory, C. elegans course, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA, 2003
Co-organiser, European C. elegans Meeting, Naples, Italy, 2002
Lecturer, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, UK, C. elegans course, 2001
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Biological and related sciences, Molecular biology, molecular microbiology, biochemistry, membrane protein biochemistry
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Biological and related sciences, Evolution, genomics, bioinformatics
Biological and related sciences, Health, Cell Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Vascular Biology, Tumour Biology
A research team headed by Barbara Conradt, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in Munich, have uncovered a mechanism that induces cell death in the nematode C. elegans: the mother cell actively determines the fate of the daughter cell.