CV Science

Christian Wunder MD

Course and current status

10/2010 – Chargée de Recherche 1ère Classe (CR1), INSERM
Curie Institute, Paris, France

In the team of Dr. Ludger Johannes

Research focus:

• Glycosphingolipids and galectins in endocytosis, cell migration and cancer immunology
• Mechanistic analysis and reconstitution of retrograde trafficking

Scientific summary

11/2005 – 10/2010    Postdoctoral scientist / NIH visiting fellow

National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Child Health & Human

Development (NICHD), Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch, Bethesda, USA

Dr. Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

Research focus:

• Reconstitution of the endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT) and COPI-coat Golgi budding using giant unilamellar vesicles and high resolution imaging
• Analysis of the dynamics of the mitochondrial network dependent on Prohibitin and cell cycle stages

• Development of new imaging techniques for lipid and protein localization
• Identification and mechanism of the peroxisomal protein-import machinery

11/2003 – 10/2005    Postdoctoral scientist / Max Planck fellow

Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Dept. of Molecular Biology, Berlin, Germany

Prof. Dr. Thomas F. Meyer / Prof. Dr. Thomas Rudel

Research focus:

• Identification, biochemical characterization and immune function of the cholesterol glycosyltransferase from Helicobacter pylori
• Deciphering how prohibitin modulates cell migration and MAP-Kinase activity
• Analysis of H. pylori-host interplay (signaling, lipid metabolism, immunology)

04/2001 – 10/2003     Junior house officer

Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Charité, Berlin, Germany

Prof. Dr. Bertram Wiedenmann

Research focus:

• Dissection of the Type-IV-secretion system of H. pylori in Meriones unguiculatus

                                     and

 Trainee in molecular biology

Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Dept. of Molecular Biology, Berlin, Germany

Prof. Dr. Michael Naumann

Research focus:

• H. pylori-host interplay (MAP-Kinase, VEGF and prostaglandin signaling)
• Epithelium-microarray study of Cox-2 inhibitor treated and H. pylori infected mice

1997 – 2000                     Research for thesis

Institute of Toxicology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Prof. Dr. Franz Oesch

Research focus:

• Identification of genetic modifications in primary lung carcinoma cells, analysis of chemotherapy-resistance and apoptosis for development of a new cancer therapy