Michael Bölker (Philipps University of Marburg, Germany)

Speaker: Prof. Michael Bölker (Philipps University of Marburg, Germany)

Talk: Of fungi and men: Ustilago maydis as a model system to study ribosomal readthrough and peroxisome function

Time: Wednesday, 3rd of September 2014, 9:45

Venue: Biotechnology Summer School 2014, OW Syrenka, Stegna

Category: Invited lecture during Biotechnology Summer School

Michael Bölker, biographical note

Professor for Genetics at the Department of Biology, Philipps University Marburg. He obtained his PhD in biochemistry at the Institute for Genbiological Research in Berlin working on the field of bacteriophage genetics. Post doctoral fellow at the Institute for Microbiology and Genetics of the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich working on fungal mating type determination. Since 1997 full professor in Marburg. Research interests: Regulation of morphogenesis and cytokinesis in the dimorphic fungus Ustilago maydis. Functional genomics to study peroxisome function and fungal secondary metabolism. Translational recoding and its function for intracellular localization of proteins. Michael Bölker is member of the Marburg Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO) and the Frankfurt Excellence Cluster for Integrative Fungal Research.