Martin Göpfert

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Martin Cornelius Göpfert (* 1968 ) is a German biologist and zoologist .

Life

Göpfert studied biology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , where he in 1998 with a thesis on Comparative studies on the perception of sound in Sphingidce doctorate was. From 1998 to 2002 he worked as a research fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service and the German Academy of Natural Scientists at the Zoological Institute of the University of Zurich , where he also completed his habilitation .

Göpfert has been a Royal Society Research Fellow at the School of Biological Sciences at Bristol University since 2002 . Since 2003 he has headed a research project “Hearing Processes in Insects” at the Zoological Institute of the University of Cologne, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation with 1.3 million euros . In 2006 he received his Habilitation at the University of Cologne for the Department of Zoology . He worked as a private lecturer at the University of Cologne until 2008 and has been Professor of Cellular Neurobiology at the University of Göttingen since 2008 . Göpfert conducts research at the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine .

Act

Göpfert deals with the mechanical processes and the cellular and molecular mechanisms of hearing processes in insects.

In 2003 he was awarded the Walther Arndt Research Prize. Göpfert was honored - according to the jury of the DZG - "because of his recent research work on the biophysical , molecular and neurobiological mechanisms of peripheral sound processing in insects - hearing organs . By combining unusual experimental skill with a wealth of ideas, Martin Göpfert was able to prove that it was in gives the tiny hearing organs of insects, which are comparatively only a few cells, active, mechanical amplifier processes. This discovery opens up a new way of looking at the generation of sensitivity, which leads to nanomechanics . "

honors and awards

Publications

  • Martin C. Göpfert, Jörg T. Albert, B. Nadrowski and A. Kamikouchi: Specification of auditory sensitivity by Drosophila TRP channels in Nature neuroscience , July 2, 2006 (Advance Online Publication).
  • Jörg T. Albert, Björn Nadrowski, Martin C. Göpfert: Mechanical Signatures of Transducer Gating in the Drosophila Ear , in Current Biology 17, 1-7, June 5, 2007.

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  1. ^ "Hearing processes in insects" , idw: University of Cologne, July 10, 2003
  2. ^ Page of the University of Göttingen
  3. ^ "Walther Arndt Research Prize 2003" (PDF file; 106 kB), German Zoological Society, 127th circular - April 2003
  4. ^ "Excellent researchers" , Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, November 11, 2005

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personal data
SURNAME Göpfert, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Göpfert, Martin Cornelius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist and zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1968