Roland Brandt

Roland Brandt

Roland Brandt (born August 23, 1960 in Bensheim , Hessen) is a German neurobiologist , university professor , scientific advisory board of the AFI ( Alzheimer Research Initiative ) and head of the neurobiology department at the University of Osnabrück .

Life

Roland Brandt grew up in Singen (Hohentwiel) and attended the Hegau grammar school there. After studying biochemistry and philosophy at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (Baden-Württemberg) from 1983 to 1988, Brandt moved to the Free University of Berlin , where he received his PhD in 1990. rer. nat. received his doctorate and graduated with a master's degree in philosophy in 1990. His dissertation, which he wrote at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin / Dahlem, was entitled Interaction between mRNA and ribosomes in the first steps of prokaryotic protein biosynthesis .

From 1990 to 1994 Brandt worked as a research fellow at the Center for Neurological Diseases (CND) at Harvard Medical School in Boston (Massachusetts, USA). In 1994 he became an independent research group leader at the Interdisciplinary Center for Neurosciences (IZN) at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , where he qualified as a professor in 1997 in cell biology. Brandt stayed in Heidelberg until 2002 when he received a call from the University of Osnabrück .

Brandt has been Professor and Head of the Department of Neurobiology at the University of Osnabrück since 2002. He also works as a consultant for a number of organizations and companies, including the Alzheimer Research Initiative eV (AFI) .

Roland Brandt is a member of numerous scientific societies and holds or held various positions as dean of the Department of Biology / Chemistry, member of the Senate of the University of Osnabrück, Chairman of the Osnabrück Scientific Society (OWiG), spokesman for the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for Doctoral Students at the University of Osnabrück (ZePrOS ) and speaker of the study group "Molecular Neurobiology" of the Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM).

He lives in Osnabrück and has three grown children.

Research areas

Brandt is mainly concerned with the study of the mechanisms of neuronal development and degeneration at the molecular, cellular and systemic level.

Color-coded distribution of acetylated microtubules in a cultivated nerve cell. Stable microtubules are increasingly located on the axon and the pericentriolar region near the cell nucleus.

The following issues in particular play a role:

• The cell biology of neurodegenerative diseases
• The cell skeleton in the development and aging of nerve cells
• Development of new "live cell imaging" methods for the investigation of protein dynamics in living nerve cells

Memberships

• Scientific Advisory Board of the Alzheimer Research Initiative (AFI) (since 2010)
• Osnabrück Scientific Society (OWiG)
• American Society of Cell Biology (ASCB)
• Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
• Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM)
• Neuroscientific Society (NWG)
• Editor of the journal Current Neuropharmacology (since 2008)
• Editor of the journal Frontiers in Neurodegeneration (since 2010)

Works

• List of publications: [1]
• Profile at Google Scholar: [2]

Web links

• Neurobiology at biologie.uni-osnabrueck.de
• Department of Neurobiology , University of Osnabrück
• Alzheimer's Research Initiative website