Reinhard Jahn (biologist)
Reinhard Jahn (born December 21, 1950 in Leverkusen ) is a German cell and neurobiologist. Since 1997 he has been director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen and honorary professor at the University of Göttingen . Since December 1, 2019, he has been temporarily President of the University of Göttingen .
Live and act
Jahn studied biology and chemistry. He received his doctorate from the University of Göttingen in 1981 . After research and teaching stays at Yale and Rockefeller University , he has led a junior research group at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich since 1986 . Five years later he went back to the US as an Associate Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Professor of Pharmacology and Cell Biology at Yale University. In 1997 he became Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen.
Jahn made decisive contributions to the understanding of membrane fusion. He identified proteins that mediate membrane fusion and characterized the structure and functionality of the molecular fusion machinery. This work is of great importance not only for neurobiological research, but also for cell biology as a whole, said the Biophysical Society in 2008 when Jahn was awarded the Sir Bernard Katz Prize.
Awards and memberships
- 1990: Max Planck Research Award
- 2000: Leibniz Prize
- 2004: Member of the Leopoldina
- 2006: Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine
- 2008: Sir Bernard Katz Prize
- 2010: Lower Saxony Science Prize in the category of academics at universities
- 2014: Heinrich Wieland Prize
- 2015: Foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 2015: Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2015: Full member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen
- 2016: Communitas Prize of the Max Planck Society
- 2016: Balzan Prize
Fonts (selection)
- About the regulation of amylase secretion in the parotid gland. Dissertation. University of Göttingen, 1981.
- S. Takamori, J.-S. Rhee, C. Rosenmund, R. Jahn: Identification of a vesicular glutamate transporter that defines a glutamatergic phenotype in neurons. In: Nature . Volume 407, 2000, pp. 189-194.
- T. Lang, D. Bruns, D. Wenzel, D. Riedel, P. Holroyd, C. Thiele, R. Jahn: SNAREs are concentrated in cholesterol-dependent clusters that define docking and fusion sites for exocytosis. In: EMBO J. Volume 20, 2001, pp. 2202-2213.
- D. Fasshauer, W. Antonin, V. Subramaniam, R. Jahn: SNARE assembly and disassembly exhibit a pronounced hysteresis. In: Nature Struct. Biol. Vol. 9, 2002, pp. 144-151.
- C. Graf, D. Riedel, HD Schmitt, R. Jahn: Identification of functionally interacting SNAREs using complementary substitutions in the conserved '0' layer. In: Mol. Biol. Cell. Volume 16, 2005, pp. 2263-2274.
- D. Brandhorst, D. Zwilling, SO Rizzoli, U. Lippert, T. Lang, R. Jahn: Homotypic fusion of early endosomes: SNAREs do not determine fusion specificity. In: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA . Volume 103, 2006, pp. 2701-2706.
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- Profile at Max Planck Society
- Reinhard Jahn receives Sir Bernard Katz Prize 2008 Press release, January 23, 2008
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Prof. Dr. Reinhard Jahn takes over the office of President of the University of Göttingen. Accessed December 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Reinhard Jahn (with picture) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 7, 2016.
- ↑ University of Göttingen successful in Lower Saxony Science Prize 2010. In: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft . September 13, 2010, accessed September 14, 2010.
- ↑ Message A diplomat with a lot of energy , Max Planck Society honors Reinhard Jahn with the Communitas Prize, March 1, 2016, accessed March 12, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jahn, Reinhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cell and neurobiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leverkusen |