Matthias Gaestel

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Matthias Gaestel (* 1958 in Berlin ) is a German biochemist and cell biologist . From 1997 to 2001 he was Professor of Molecular Genetics of Signal Transduction at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and has been Professor of Biochemistry and Head of the Institute for Cell Biochemistry at the Hannover Medical School since 2001 . He is known for his work on stress-induced signal transmission and signal processing in mammalian cells.

Life

Matthias Gaestel was born in Berlin in 1958 and studied biology at the Humboldt University of Berlin from 1976 to 1981, specializing in biophysics with Roland Glaser and Reinhart Heinrich . He received his doctorate in biophysics in 1993 and then began his scientific work at the Central Institute for Molecular Biology of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , later the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine , from 1986 to 1995 in Heinz Bielka's cell physiology department . In 1993 he completed his habilitation in biochemistry at the Free University of Berlin with Volker Erdmann . As a Heisenberg fellow from the DFG , Gaestel headed a junior research group at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine until 1997 .

Scientific work

Matthias Gaestel has published more than 200 scientific papers so far.

Works (selection)

  • MAPKAP kinases - Two is company, three is a crowd . Nature Reviews Mol. Cell Biol., 2006, 7, 120-130.
  • MK2-TNF-Signaling Comes Full Circle . Trends Biochem Sci. 2018, 43, 170-179. doi: 10.1016 / j.tibs.2017.12.002

Awards

  • 1993: Gerhard Domagk Prize for Cancer Research (together with Heinz Bielka and Rainer Benndorf)

literature

  • Luise Pasternak (editor): Scientist in the biomedical research center. Berlin Book 1930-2004. Scientists biographies. Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 978-3-63-152783-2 .
  • Catherine M. Goodman: How a fortuitous collaboration helped catalyze new insights into helper proteins. J. Biol. Chem. 2019, 294, 2208-2210. doi: 10.1074 / jbc.CL119.007667

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Luise Pasternak (editor): Scientist in the biomedical research center. Berlin Book 1930-2004. Scientists biographies. Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2004, pp. 267-271. ISBN 978-3-63-152783-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Gaestel, Matthias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gaestel, Matthias Wolfgang (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biochemist and cell biologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin