Prof. Dr. Joachim Wittbrodt

Project Leader B04

Heidelberg University
Centre for Organismal Studies (COS)
Im Neuenheimer Feld 230
69120 Heidelberg

jochen.wittbrodt@cos.uni-heidelberg.de

https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/de/Jochen-Wittbrodt
Prof. Dr. Joachim Wittbrodt

Professional Career

since 2007

Professor of Developmental Biology/Physiology (W3)

Centre for Organismal Studies (COS), Department of Developmental Biology/Physiology, Heidelberg University

2006-2012

Director

Institute of Toxicology and Genetics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT, Karlsruhe

1999-2008

Group Leader

Developmental Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg

1995-1998

Junior Group Leader

SFB 271 , MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen

1991-1994

Postdoctoral research fellow

Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Achievements & Awards

since 2015

Elected Director

HBIGS, the Heidelberg International Graduate School in life sciences

2012

Special price for exceptional research

Heidelberg University

2011-2014

Founding and managing director

Centre for Organismal Studies, COS, Heidelberg University

2011-2012

Chairman

German Society for Developmental Biology, GfE

2011

Lautenschläger Award

Heidelberg University

2009

HMLS Award

Heidelberg Molecular Life Sciences research council

2009

Otto Mangold Award

German Society for Developmental Biology

2007-2011

Coordinator and spokesman

DFG Collaborative Research Center SFB 488 “Molecular and cellular bases of neural development”

since 2007

Steering committee member

HBIGS

2004-2011

Elected member

Fachkollegium 201 Grundlagen der Biologie und Medizin , DFG

Publications

Igf signaling couples retina growth with body growth by modulating progenitor cell division

Becker C, Lust K, Wittbrodt J. Development. 2021 Mar 15:dev.199133. doi: 10.1242/dev.199133. Online ahead of print.
PMID: 33722901
 

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Enhanced in vivo-imaging in medaka by optimized anaesthesia, fluorescent protein selection and removal of pigmentation

Lischik CQ, Adelmann L, Wittbrodt J. PLoS One. 2019 Mar 7;14(3):e0212956. PMID: 30845151

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Tyrosine phosphorylation of LRP6 by Src and Fer inhibits Wnt/β-catenin signaling

Chen Q, Su Y, Wesslowski J, Hagemann AI, Ramialison M, Wittbrodt J, Scholpp S, Davidson G. EMBO Rep. 2014 Dec;15(12):1254-67. doi: 10.15252/embr.201439644. Epub 2014 Nov 12. PMID: 25391905

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