Prof. Dr. Ralf Baumeister

Group: Bioinformatics and Molecular Genetics
www.celegans.de

Phone: +49 (0)761 203-8350

Since 2003 Professor (Ordinarius) of Bioinformatics and Molecular Genetics, University of Freiburg, Germany. Affiliation: Faculties of Biology and of Medicine
Since 2013 Furtwangen University, Faculty of Medical and Life Sciences: Member of the Advisory Board
2007-2010 Director of FRIAS LIFENET (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Section Life Sciences)
2005-2010 Founding Director of ZBSA (Freiburg Center for Systems Biology)
2006-2008 Director of Institute of Biology III
2000-2003 Professor of Metabolic Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, LMU University of Munich, Germany
1998 Founder of EleGene Inc., Pharmaceutical and Genetic Screening Company, Martinsried, Germany
1995-2000 Group leader, Genzentrum, LMU University of Munich, Germany
1992-1995 Postdoc, Harvard Medical School, Mass. General Hospital, Boston, USA (lab of Gary Ruvkun)
1988-1992 PhD (Dr. rer nat). in Microbiology and Biochemistry, University of Erlangen (lab of Prof. Wolfgang Hillen) (summa cum laude, excellent)

Qi, W., Yan, Y., Pfeifer, D., Donner von Gromoff, E., Wang, Y., Maier, W. and Baumeister R. (2017) DAF-16/FOXO interacts with TGF-ß/BMP signaling to induce germline tumor formation via mTORC1 activation. PLoS Genetics 26;13(5):e1006801
Thedieck, K., Holzwarth, B., Prentzell, M.T., Boehlke, C., Kläsener, K., Ruf, S., Sonntag, A.G., Maerz, L., Grellscheid, S., Kremmer, E., Nitschke, R., Kuehn, E.W., Reth, M., Hall, M.N., Baumeister, R. (2013). Inhibition of mTORC1 by Astrin and stress granules prevents apoptosis in cancer cells. Cell. 154(4):859-74.
Runkel ED, Liu S, Baumeister R*, Schulze E (2013) Surveillance-Activated Defenses Block the ROS–Induced Mitochondrial Unfolded Protein Response. PLoS Genet 9(3): e1003346. correction: PLoS Genet 2016 12(10):e1006377
Fatouros, C., Pir, G.P., Biernat, J., Koushika, S.P., Mandelkow, E., Mandelkow, E., Schmidt, E., Baumeister, R. (2012). Inhibition of Tau aggregation in a novel C. elegans model of Tauopathy mitigates proteotoxicity. Hum Mol Genet. 21(16):3587-603.
*Neumann-Haefelin, E., Qi, W., Finkbeiner, E., Walz, G., Baumeister R.* Hertweck, M. (2008). SHC-1/p52Shc targets the insulin/IGF-1 and JNK signaling pathways to modulate life span and stress response in C. elegans. Genes Dev. 22(19):2721-35.* corresponding author.