‘Lipid control of membrane dynamics in health and disease.’

Host: Professor Claire Halpin

Venue: MSI Large Lecture Theatre, SLS

Biography:

Volker Haucke studied biochemistry at the Free University of Berlin and at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel (1989-1994) as a scholar of the German National Merit Foundation Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. In 1997, he was awarded a PhD ("summa cum laude") in biochemistry by the University of Basel (Biozentrum) for his work in the laboratory of Gottfried Schatz on the mitochondrial protein import machinery. From 1997 to 2000 he was a postdoctoral fellow in the research group Pietro De Camilli at Yale University School of Medicine and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) funded by long-term fellowships from the Human Frontier Science Programme Organization (HFSP) and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). Since 2000 he led an independent research group funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at the Centre for Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology at the University of Göttingen. In 2003, he became chair of the Department of Membrane Biochemistry at the Free University of Berlin.

About the lecture series:

Adam Neville was the Principal of the University of Dundee from 1978-1987. This lecture series was set up in recognition of Adam Neville’s key role in ensuring the survival of the Department of Biochemistry in the late 1970s at a time when its financial position was extremely precarious. This is one of SLS’s most prestigious named lectures.