Judith Reichmann

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Judith Reichmann (* 1984 or 1985) is a German biologist.

Judith Reichmann studied applied biology at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences and at the University of Aberdeen , where she received a bachelor's degree in genetics. She received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh with a dissertation on the processes involved in the formation of egg and sperm cells. From 2012 she was a post-doctoral student at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg , where she has been employed as a scientist in Jan Ellenberg's group since 2017 .

Reichmann deals with the first cell divisions in the formation of embryos on the model of mouse cells, where she further developed and applied the method of light sheet microscopy (inverted light sheet microscope) (since the embryonic cells would have been damaged under the continuous light of ordinary microscopy). She found a protein (Tex 19.1) that stabilizes the chromosome sets of the sex cells when they are halved in meiosis , which prevents sex cells with incorrect chromosome numbers from being formed (causes of miscarriages and chromosomal defects). She also discovered that in the first cell divisions of the fertilized cell, it does not have one spindle apparatus , but two for the male and female chromosomes. Even at the two-cell stage, they remain divided into two halves and only increasingly mix after the first cell division.

In 2020 she received the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Young Talent Award endowed with 60,000 euros for her research . A podcast by Bayerischer Rundfunk declared her “Woman of the Week” on January 24 of that year.

She is married and has two kids.

Fonts (selection)

  • J. Reichmann, B. Nijmeijer, MJ Hossain, M. Eguren, I. Schneider, AZ Politi, MJ Roberti, L. Hufnagel, T. Hiiragi, J. Ellenberg: Dual-spindle formation in zygotes keeps parental genomes apart in early mammalian embryos, Science, Volume 361, 2018, pp. 189-193.
  • J. Reichmann, M. Eguren, Y. Lin, I. Schneider, J. Ellenberg: Live imaging of cell division in preimplantation mouse embryos using inverted light-sheet microscopy, Methods Cell Biol., Volume 145, 2018, p. 279– 292.
  • P. Strnad, S. Gunther, J. Reichmann, U. Krzic, B. Balazs, G. de Medeiros, N. Norlin, T. Hiiragi, L. Hufnagel, J. Ellenberg: Inverted light-sheet microscope for imaging mouse pre -implantation development, Nature Methods, Volume 13, 2016, pp. 139-142.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Young Talent Award for Judith Reichmann , University of Frankfurt, March 13, 2020, after which she was 35 years old in March 2020.
  2. ↑ Woman of the Week. Biologist Judith Reichmann on her groundbreaking research on reproduction , www.br.de, accessed on August 6, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Reichmann, Judith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cell biologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1984 or 1985