Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang von Dr. Rolf Sprengel

Education:

PhD in Microbiology at the University of Heidelberg (11/1981 – 6/1983)

                                   Examined and awarded by the University   6/1983

Dipl. Diploma in Biology at the University of Heidelberg (9/1975 – 10/1981)

                                   Examined and awarded by the University 10/1981

 

Professional career:

2021 –                     Retired Staff member of the Max Planck Institute of Medical Research

2015 – 2021             Research Group Leader of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research at the Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology at Heidelberg University. Investigating mouse models with gene-targeted or conditional, transgenic mutations found in human patients with cognitive impairments autism spectrum disorder (ADS).

2001 – 2015             Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg. Generation of mouse models to study cognition and mental disorders in mice. Development of rAAV mediated gene-transfer in mice.

1996 – 2001     Research associate, in Peter Seeburg’s Dept. of Molecular Neurobiology at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg. Generation of mouse models with altered fast signal transmission in the CNS using gene-targeting and transgenic approaches.

1988  – 1996            Research associate in Peter Seeburg's group at the Center for Molecular Biology, ZMBH at the Heidelberg University. Functional analysis and cloning of Glycoprotein hormone receptors, G-protein coupled receptors and ligand gated ion channels.

1986  – 1988    Postdoctoral fellow in the independent research group of H. Will at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Munich

Cloning and host range studies of other avian hepatitis B viruses.

1985  – 1986    Postdoctoral fellow in the research group of H. Varmus at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California San Francisco, UCSF. Establishing the duck hepatitis B virus system as model for HBV infections.

1983  – 1985    Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Microbiology of H. Schaller at the University of Heidelberg. Cloning and sequencing of the duck hepatitis B virus system as model for HBV infections.

 

 

 

Awards and elected memberships

Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Neuroscience in Heidelberg (IZN)

Member of the Heidelberg Biosciences International Graduate School (HBIGS)

 

01/2018 – present    Invited member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Chica and Heinz Schaller Foundation (CHS)

11/29/2017              Laudator for the award winner of the Heidelberg Molecular Life Science 2017

12/2017 – present    Invited editing reviewer for Frontiers of Molecular Neuroscience

08/2014 – 11/2014    Invited visiting guest Professor at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology in Seoul

08/2011 – 2021        Visiting professor at the University of Oslo

2002      – 2021        Regular member of the American Society for Neuroscience (SFN)

01/2001                   Call to Max Planck Working Group Leader from the president of the Max Planck Society

1997    – 2021        Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

01/1985 – 12/1985    Fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

04/1983 – 12/1984    Fellowship of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation

 

Honorary activities in Academics, Society, and Politics

Editing reviewer for Frontiers of Molecular Neuroscience

Reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG)

Reviewer for the Schram Foundation

Reviewer for the Alexander Humboldt Foundation

Reviewer for the Czech Science Foundation

 

 

Peer-reviewed publications (385, Citations: 35.175 h-index 93; i10-index 211), source Google scholar

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