Senior Group Thomas Boehm Design principles of adaptive immunity in vertebrates
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LAB MEMBERS Administration Julia Rösner Lab Manager Annette Haas-Assenbaum
GROUP LEADER THOMAS BOEHM 1956 Born in Gelnhausen, Germany, study of Medicine at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Technicians Stefanie Birmelin, Dagmar Diekhoff, Ingrid Fidler, Christiane Happe, Brigitte Krauth
1982-1986 Fellow in Biological Chemistry and Pediatrics, University of Frankfurt Medical School, Germany
Project Leaders Norimasa Iwanami (until 04/2018), Michael Schorpp, Jeremy Swann
1987-1991 Staff Scientist at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England
Postdoctoral Fellows Orlando Bruno Giorgetti, Divine Fondzenyuy Lawir, Ryo Morimoto, Anja Nusser, Connor Patrick O’Meara, Inês Trancoso Ph.D. Students Mayumi Hirakawa, Iliana Siamishi
1992-1994 Professor at the University of Freiburg Medical School, Germany 1995-1997 Professor at the German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany Since 1998 Director at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Iwanami N, Sikora K, Richter AS, Mönnich M, Guerri L, Soza-Ried C, Lawir D-F, Mateos F, Hess I, O´Meara OP, Schorpp M, Boehm T (2016). Forward genetic screens in zebrafish identify pre-mRNA processing pathways regulating early T cell development. Cell Reports 17, 2259-2270. Holland SJ, Berghuis LM, King JJ, Iyer LM, Sikora K, Fifield H, Peter S, Quinlan EM, Sugahara F, Shingate P, Trancoso I, Iwanami N, Temereva E, Strohmeier S, Kuratani S, Venkatesh B, Evanno G, Aravind L, Schorpp M, Larijani M, Boehm T (2018). Expansions, diversification and inter-individual copy number variations of AID-APOBEC family cytidine deaminase genes in lampreys. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 115, E3211-E3220. Boehm T, Hirano M, Holland SJ, Das S, Schorpp M, Cooper MD (2018). Evolution of alternative adaptive immune systems in vertebrates. Annual Review of Immunology 36, 19-42.