Biography Thomas Langer
Department Langer
Scientific Career |
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| 2025 - present |
Director
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany |
| 2023 - 2025 |
Managing Director
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany |
| 2018 - 2023 |
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 |
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| 1999 | Habilitation in Biochemistry |
| 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 |
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| 2017 | Max Delbrück Prize - University of Cologne |
| 2017 | EMBO Global Exchange Lecture Series - China |
| 2016 | Wilhelm Feldberg Prize - UK |
| 2012 | Elected member - Leopoldina (German National Academy of Sciences) |
| 2011 | Elected member - Academy of Sciences and Arts North Rhine-Westphalia |
| 2008 - 2014 | Max Planck Fellow - Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne |
| 2007 | Elected EMBO member |
Third-party
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| 2021 - 2024 |
German Research Council
Collaborative Research Center 1218: Mitochondrial Regulation of Cellular Function |
| 2020 - 2023 |
German Research Council
Collaborative Research Center 1403: Cell Death in Immunity, Inflammation and Disease |
| 2020- 2023 | German-Israel-Project MitoBalance |
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Postdoctoral fellowships Humboldt Foundation, EMBO
Japanese Science Foundation |
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| 2015 - 2020 | Reinhart Koselleck Grant - German Research Council |
| 2009 - 2014 | Advanced Career Grant - European Research Council |
Scientific Activities /
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| Editorial Boards | |
| 2002 - 2009 | Biological Chemistry |
| since 2010 | Journal of Cell Biology, EMBO Reports, Journal of Biochemistry |
| 2012 - 2020 | Board of Reviewing Editors Science |
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Service to Scientific
Community |
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| 2019 - 2021 | Managing Director - Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne |
| 2017 | Pro-Dean 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 Service, Bonn |
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Organisation of scientific
conferences |
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| 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 |