DEDepartment Langer
Thomas Langer
Director
Nationality
German
Scientific Career
| 2018 | Director Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany |
| 2001 - 2017 | Professor (C4/W3) Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany |
| 1993 - 2001 | Group leader Adolf Butenandt Institute for Physiological Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. Chair: Prof. Dr. Dr. Walter Neupert, Germany |
| 1992 - 1993 | Visiting scientist Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute, New York, USA |
Education
1999 | Habilitation in Biochemistry |
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| 1989 - 1993 | Ph.D., Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. Mentor: Dr. Franz-Ulrich Hartl. Research topic: Chaperone-mediated protein folding |
| 1984 - 1989 | Study of Biological Sciences, University of Regensburg, Germany |
Prizes / Awards
| 2017 | Max Delbrück Prize, University of Cologne |
| 2017 | EMBO Global Exchange Lecture Series, China |
| 2016 | International Steenbock lecturer, University of Wisconsin |
| 2016 | Wilhelm Feldberg Prize, UK |
| 2015 - 2020 | Reinhart Koselleck Grant, German Research Council |
| 2012 | Elected member, Leopoldina (German National Academy of Sciences) |
| 2011 | Elected member, Academy of Sciences and Arts North Rhine-Westphalia |
| 2009 - 2014 | Advanced Career Grant, European Research Council |
| 2008 - 2014 | Max-Planck Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne |
| 2007 | Elected EMBO member |
Scientific Activities / Memberships
Editorial boards
| 2002 - 2009 | Biological Chemistry |
| since 2010 | Journal of Cell Biology, EMBO Reports, Journal of Biochemistry |
| 2012 - 2020 | Board of Reviewing Editors Science |
Service to Scientific Community
| 2019 - 2021 | Managing Director, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne |
| 2017 | Pro-Decan for Personnel and Finances, Faculty of Mathematics and Natures Sciences, University of Cologne |
| 2016 - 2018 | Senator for Cell and Developmental Biology, German Research Council |
| 2016 - 2018 | Coordinator, Collaborative Research Center 1218 of the German Research Council, Mitochondrial regulation of cellular function, University of Cologne |
| 2013 - 2015 | Vice-President for Research and Junior Scholars of the University of Cologne |
| 2012 - 2015 | Steering committee of the Institutional Strategy of the University of Cologne |
| 2011 - 2017 | Member and Chair of Panel LS3 (Cellular and Developmental Biology) Consolidator Grants of the European Research Council |
| 2010 - 2011 | Acting director, Biology Section of the Faculty for Natural Sciences, University of Cologne |
| 2007 - 2018 | Vice coordinator, Cluster of Excellence on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), University of Cologne |
| 2007 - 2011 | Senator, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Cologne |
| 2006 - 2017 | Executive board, Graduate School for Biological Sciences, University of Cologne |
| 2005 - 2012 | Study section for Biochemistry, Biophysics and Bioinformatics, German Research Council, Bonn |
| 2003 - 2015 | Coordinator, Collaborative Research Center 635 of the German Research Council, Posttranslational Control of Protein Function, University of Cologne |
| 2002 - 2004 | Acting director, Institute for Genetics |
| 2001 - 2009 | Steering committee, Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne |
| 2001 - 2005 | Ph.D. fellowship selection committee, German Academic Exchange Ser-vice, Bonn |
Organisation of scientific conferences
| 2018 | Chair, American Society for Cell Biology/EMBO Annual Meeting, Dec. 2018, San Diego, USA (together with Samara Reck-Peterson) |
| 2018 | Scientific chair, Cell Press Symposium, Multifaceted Mitochondria, June 2018, San Diego, USA (together with Marcia Haigis) |
| 2018 | International Symposium of the CRC1218, Mitochondrial Plasticity in Metabolism |
| 2017 | Organizing Committee, American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting, Dec. 2017, Philadelphia, USA |
| 2017 | Organizer, EMBO Workshop, Mitochondrial Quality Control, Xi´an, China, July 2017 (with Q. Chan and J. Liu) |
| 2015 | Keystone Symposium: Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome: Mitochondria and Energy Expenditure. Whistler, BC, Canada (together with J. Auwerx and E. Maratos-Flier) |
| 2013 | EMBO Workshop, AAA+ proteins: from mechanisms and disease to targets. Neuss, Germany (together with H. Meyer and R. Erdmann) |
| 2013 | Mitochondria, metabolic regulation and the Biology of Aging. Lanzarote, Spain (together with P. Jansen-Dürr) |
| 2010 | Mosbacher Colloquium of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Biology of Aging: Mechanisms and Intervention (together with A. Trifunovic and J. Brüning) |
| 2010 | Cologne Spring Meeting and International Symposium of the CRC635, Protein homeostasis: make it, guide it, and break it” (together with J. Dohmen and M. Leptin) |
| 2009 | Chair, FASEB Summer Research Conference “Mitochondrial Assembly and Dynamics in Health and Disease (together with C.M. Koehler, UCLA) |
| 2006 | Cologne Spring Meeting and International Symposium of the CRC635, The control of protein function: cellular regulation, dysfunction, and disease |
| 2006 | Symposium Protein folding in the cell, Annual Meeting of the German Society for Cell Biology, Braunschweig |
| 2003 | Cologne Spring Meeting, Cellular Quality Control |
| 1997 | EMBO Workshop, Cellular Functions of AAA Proteins, Tutzing |