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Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Ulm University
Albert-Einstein-Allee 11
89081 Ulm
Tissue homeostasis: Development, aging and regeneration
Research at the Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is focussed on the question how tissues and organs are formed during embryogenesis and maintained during regeneration and aging. These processes are regulated by extracellular growth factors, intracellular signal transduction pathways and gene regulatory networks. We are focussing in our work on heart, kidney, bone, and the nervous system. To tackle these questions, we use different models such as Xenopus laevis, Danio rerio and Drosophila melanogaster and cell culture. We also use systems biology approaches to gain deeper insights into these processes.
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Monday-Thursday 8 - 12 a.m.
Wednesday and Friday 14 - 17 a.m.
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Publication highlights of research group leaders
Rashmi Mishra, Ivonne Sehring, Maria Cederlund, Medhanie Mulaw, and Gilbert Weidinger (2020) NF-κB signaling negatively regulates osteoblast dedifferentiation during zebrafish bone regeneration. Dev. Cell 52, 167-182
Rothe M, Kanwal N, Dietmann P, Seigfried FA, Hempel A, Schütz D, Reim D, Engels R, Linnemann A, Schmeisser MJ, Bockmann J, Kühl M, Boeckers TM, Kühl SJ (2017) An Epha4/Sipa1l3/Wnt pathway regulates eye development and lens maturation, Development, 144:321-33
Chi-Chung Wu, Fabian Kruse, Mohankrishna Dalvoy Vasudevarao, Jan Philipp Junker, David C. Zebrowski, Kristin Fischer, Emily S. Noël, Dominic Grün, Eugene Berezikov, Felix B. Engel, Alexander van Oudenaarden, Gilbert Weidinger* and Jeroen Bakkers* (2016). Spatially-resolved genome-wide transcriptional profiling identifies BMP signaling as essential regulator of zebrafish cardiomyocyte regeneration. Dev. Cell. 36, 36-49. *corresponding authors
Tao S, Tang D, Morita Y, Sperka T, Omrani O, Lechel A, Sakk Vadim, Kraus J, Kestler H, Kühl M*, Rudolph KL* (2015) Wnt activity and basal niche position sensitize intestinal stem and progenitor cells to DNA damage, Embo J, 34:624-40, * corresponding authors
Cizelsky W*, Tata A*, Kühl M+, Kühl SJ+ (2014) The Wnt/JNK target gene alcam is required for embryonic kidney development, Development, 141, 2064-74, *equal authors, +corresponding authors
Özan G,Sezgin E, Wehner D, Pfister AS, Kühl SJ, Kagermeier-Schenk B, Kühl M, Schwille P and Weidinger G (2013) Lypd6 enhances Wnt/b-catenin signaling by promoting Lrp6 phosphorylation in raft plasma membrane domains, Dev Cell, 26, 331-45
Bugner V, Tecza A, Gessert S, Kühl M (2011) Peter Pan functions independent of its role in ribosome biogenesis during early eye and craniofacial cartilage development in Xenopus laevis, Development, 138, 2369-78
Maurus D, Heligon C, Bürger-Schwärzler A, Brändli A, Kühl M (2005) Noncanonical Wnt-4 signaling and EAF2 are required for eye development in Xenopus laevis, Embo J, 24, 1181-1181
Pandur P, Läsche M, Eisenberg L, Kühl M (2002) Wnt-11 stimulation of a non-canonical Wnt-pathway is required for cardiogenesis, Nature 418, 636-641