Prof. Dr. Maja Köhn

Group: Integrative Signalling Studies
www.bioss.uni-freiburg.de

Phone: +49 (0)761 203-67900

Since 2021 Speaker of the BIOSS Centre for Biological Signaling Studies, University of Freiburg
Since 2019 Steering committee member of the excellence cluster CIBSS Centre for Integrative Biological Signaling Studies, University of Freiburg
Since 2018 Vice Dean, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg
Since 2018 Vice speaker BIOSS Centre for Biological Signaling Studies, University of Freiburg
Since 2016 Full Professor Integrative Signalling Research, Faculty of Biology, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg
2007-2016 Group Leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg
2005-2007 Postdoctoral fellow with Prof. G. L. Verdine at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, USA
2002-2005 Dr. rer. nat. in Organic Chemistry, Technical University Dortmund and MPI for Molecular Physiology, supervisor: Prof. H. Waldmann
1996-2001 Diploma in Chemistry, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel

B. Hoermann, T. Kokot, D. Helm, S. Heinzlmeir, J.E. Chojnacki, T. Schubert, C. Ludwig, A. Berteotti, N. Kurzawa, B. Kuster, M.M. Savitski, M. Köhn (2020) Dissecting the sequence determinants for dephosphorylation by the catalytic subunits of phosphatases PP1 and PP2A. Nat. Commun. 2020, 11, 3583.
Y. Wang, B. Hoermann, K. Pavic, M. Trebacz, P. Rios, M. Köhn (2019) Interrogating PP1 activity in the MAPK pathway with optimized PP1-disrupting peptides. ChemBioChem. 20, 66-71.
P. Luján, G. Varsano, T. Rubio, M.L. Hennrich, T. Sachsenheimer, M. Gálvez-Santisteban, F. Martín-Belmonte, A.C. Gavin, B. Brügger, M. Köhn. J (2016) Phosphatase of regenerating liver (PRL)-3 disrupts epithelial architecture by altering the post-mitotic midbody position. Cell Sci.129, 4130-4142.
M. Fontanillo, I. Zemskov, M. Häfner, U. Uhrig, F. Salvi, B. Simon, T. Wittmann, M. Köhn (2016) Synthesis of Highly Selective Submicromolar Microcystin-Based Inhibitors of protein phosphatase (PP)2A over PP1. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 55, 13985-13989.
X. Li, M. Wilmanns, J. Thornton, M. Köhn (2013) Elucidating human phosphatase-substrate networks. Sci Signal. 6, rs10.