Lebenslauf
Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang
2021 - heute | DirektorinMax-Planck-Institut für Biologie des Alterns, Köln, Deutschland
2020 - heute | Full Professor with Tenure, Vice-Chair of NeuroscienceCo-Director, Center for Glial Biology, Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Friedman Brain Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
2018 - 2019 | Associate Professor with TenureCo-Director, Center for Glial Biology, Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Friedman Brain Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
2016 - 2018 | Associate Professor
Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Friedman Brain Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
2011 - 2016 | Assistant Professor
Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Friedman Brain Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
2009 - 2011 | Senior Research Associate
Lab. of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
2007 - 2009 | Research Associate
Lab. of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
2004 - 2007 | Postdoctoral Fellow
Lab. of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
2001 - 2004 | Visiting student USA-Scholarship of German National Academic Foundation
Ausbildung
1999 - 2004 | Freie Universität Berlin - Charité, Berlin, Deutschland
1996 - 1999 | Johannes Gutenberg Universittät - Mainz, Germany
Auszeichnungen
2019 | Max Planck Sabbatical Award
2019 | Vice Chair of Neuroscience
- Mount Sinai, USA
2018 | Inventor of the Year 2018 Award
- Mount Sinai, USA
2018 | Inaugural NINDS Landis Award for Outstanding Mentorship
- NIH, USA
2017 | Co-director, Center for Glial Biology
- Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
2015 | Harold and Golden Lamport Research Award
- Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
2014 | Kavli Frontiers in Science Fellow
- The National Academy of Science, USA
2014 | CURE Challenge Award
- USA
2014 | Technology Development Fund Award
- Mount Sinai Innovation, USA
2012 | NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
- USA
2012 | Seaver Autism Center Research Award
- USA
2012 | named “Chrissy Rossi Investigator”
2011 - 2013 | NARSAD 2010 Young Investigator Award
- USA
2006 - 2008 | Research Fellowship
- Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft, Deutschland
2005 | Hans-Hench Preis 2005 - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immunologie, Deutschland
2004 | Summa cum laude
- Charité Universität Berlin, Deutschland
2001 - 2003 | USA-Stipendium der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
1999 - 2001 | Stipdenium der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes - Deutschland
Drittmittel-Projekte
2021 - 2027 | European Research Council (Schaefer, Brose, Triller, Oertner MPI) - ERC Synergy Grant, Micro-'COPS' - Microglia-control of physiological brain states
Ausgewählte Publikationen
Negative feedback control of neuronal activity by microglia
Badimon, A., Strasburger, H. J., Ayata, P., Chen, X., Nair, A.,
Ikegami, A., Hwang, P., Chan, A. T., Graves, S. M., Uweru, J. O.,
Ledderose, C., Kutlu, M. G., Wheeler, M. A., Kahan, A., Ishikawa, M.,
Wang, Y. C., Loh, Y. E., Jiang, J. X., Surmeier, D. J., Robson, S. C.,
Junger, W. G., Sebra, R., Calipari, E. S., Kenny, P. J., Eyo, U. B.,
Colonna, M., Quintana, F. J., Wake, H., Gradinaru, V., Schaefer, A.
(2020) Nature, 586, 7829, 417-423
Sensory lesioning induces microglial synapse elimination via ADAM10 and fractalkine signaling
Gunner, G., Cheadle, L., Johnson, K. M., Ayata, P., Badimon, A.,
Mondo, E., Nagy, M. A., Liu, L., Bemiller, S. M., Kim, K. W., Lira, S.
A., Lamb, B. T., Tapper, A. R., Ransohoff, R. M., Greenberg, M. E.,
Schaefer, A., Schafer, D. P.
(2019) Nat Neurosci, 22, 7, 1075-1088
Epigenetic regulation of brain region-specific microglia clearance activity
Ayata, P., Badimon, A., Strasburger, H. J., Duff, M. K.,
Montgomery, S. E., Loh, Y. E., Ebert, A., Pimenova, A. A., Ramirez, B.
R., Chan, A. T., Sullivan, J. M., Purushothaman, I., Scarpa, J. R.,
Goate, A. M., Busslinger, M., Shen, L., Losic, B., Schaefer, A.
(2018) Nat Neurosci, 21, 8, 1049-1060
Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) silences genes responsible for neurodegeneration
von Schimmelmann, M., Feinberg, P. A., Sullivan, J. M., Ku, S.
M., Badimon, A., Duff, M. K., Wang, Z., Lachmann, A., Dewell, S.,
Ma'ayan, A., Han, M. H., Tarakhovsky, A., Schaefer, A.
(2016) Nat Neurosci, 19, 10, 1321-30
MicroRNA-128 governs neuronal excitability and motor behavior in mice
Tan, C. L., Plotkin, J. L., Veno, M. T., von Schimmelmann, M.,
Feinberg, P., Mann, S., Handler, A., Kjems, J., Surmeier, D. J.,
O'Carroll, D., Greengard, P., Schaefer, A.
(2013) Science, 342, 6163, 1254-8
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