Roland Lill

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Roland Lill (* 9. October 1955 in Öhringen ) is a German biochemist with the main focus mitochondria -Biogenese. Today he is the managing director of the Institute for Cytobiology and Cytopathology of the Medical Faculty of the Philipps University of Marburg . For the Collaborative Research Center 593 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft , he coordinated research into the Mechanisms of cellular compartmentalization and the relevance for disease from January 2003 to December 2014 .

Life

After graduating from high school in Plochingen in 1974, he studied chemistry at the Universities of Ulm and Munich between 1975 and 1981 , completed his studies with a diploma in biochemistry and obtained his doctorate from 1981 to 1985 on the "characterization of the tRNA binding sites of ribosomes from Escherichia coli" at the institute for Physiological Chemistry II at the University of Munich in the working group of Wolfgang Wintermeyer for Dr. rer. nat. He remained in his laboratory as a research assistant until 1987. He then worked until 1989 with a grant from the German Research Foundation at the University of California, Los Angeles (USA) in the group of William T. Wickner . From 1990 to 1996 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Physiological Chemistry I at the University of Munich (AG Prof. W. Neupert) and completed his habilitation there in 1995 in Physiological Chemistry. In 1996 he was appointed C3 professorship, in 2002 C4 professor / institute director and in 2008 W3 professor at the Institute for Cytobiology and Cytopathology of the Medical Faculty of the Philipps University of Marburg. He has been a Fellow of the Max Planck Society since 2008 .

With studies originally carried out on yeasts, he and his working group found that the mitochondria are essential for the formation of the so-called iron-sulfur proteins.

In 2003 he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation and in 2007 became a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina zu Halle. In 2010 he received the Feldberg Foundation Prize and in 2014 the first Albrecht Kossel Prize for his outstanding and innovative contributions to the elucidation of the biosynthesis of iron-sulfur cluster proteins, especially in mitochondria and in the cytosol (laudation).

In 2014, the German Research Foundation elected Lill to its Senate, the DFG's scientific policy body, for a three-year term at the general meeting.

In 2014, Lill was awarded the Luigi Sacconi Medal by the Società Chimica Italiana for outstanding achievements in inorganic chemistry.

Publications

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsbereich) SFB 593
  2. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Roland Lill (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 17, 2016.
  3. ^ "Nine new faces in the DFG Senate" , DFG press release No. 28 | July 2, 2014, accessed February 13, 2015
  4. ↑ Marburger Uni-Journal Winter 2014/2015, p. 40
personal data
SURNAME Lill, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Öhringen