Johannes M. Herrmann
Johannes Martin Herrmann (born October 29, 1964 in Mannheim ) is a German cell biologist and biochemist . He is Professor of Cell Biology at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern and heads the Cell Biology Department at the TU.
Life
After graduating from Melanchthon-Gymnasium in Bretten , he studied biology and biochemistry at the Universities of Bayreuth and Tübingen. He worked for a year on the interaction of herpes viruses with their host cells at the Federal Research Center for Virus Diseases of Animals in Tübingen , where he also wrote his thesis. From 1992 to 1996 he did his doctorate under Walter Neupert at the Institute for Physiological Chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich on the biogenesis of mitochondrially encoded proteins. From 1996 to 1998 he worked as a fellow of the German Research Foundation at the University of California in Berkeley in Randy Schekman's group . From 1998 to 2006 he headed a working group at LMU Munich, where he qualified as a professor in biochemistry. Since 2006 he has been full professor for cell biology at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern and heads the cell biology department at the TU. From 2008 to 2011 he was Dean of the Department of Biology.
Awards
Herrmann was awarded the Arnold Sommerfeld Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (2006) and the Federation of European Biochemical Societies Award (2012) for his work. Furthermore, the state of Rhineland-Palatinate received awards in 2008 and 2010 for excellent teaching. In 2011, Herrmann founded the Redox Biology study group of the Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM), which he has headed as speaker ever since. In 2020 Johannes Herrmann was accepted as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in the Biochemistry and Biophysics Section .
Research priorities
The focus of his research is the biogenesis of mitochondria . His research focuses on the processes by which mitochondrial proteins are formed. One focus is the oxidative protein folding in the intermembrane space of the mitochondria. In 2005 Herrmann discovered the mitochondrial disulfide relay , a machine for the formation of disulfide bridges in mitochondrial proteins. The second focus of his working group is the structure and function of mitochondrial ribosomes .
Web links
- Johannes Herrmann at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern
- Member entry of John Herrmann at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Herrmann, Johannes M. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Herrmann, Johannes Martin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cell biologist and biochemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mannheim |