Sascha Karberg

Sascha Karberg (born October 15, 1969 in Berlin ) is a German biologist , science journalist and non-fiction author . He writes for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , Zeit Wissen , the Tagesspiegel , the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Technology Review , Cell and Geo , among others .

Karberg studied biology at the Free University of Berlin from 1990 and received his diploma in 1996 . Until 1999 he completed a doctorate there at the Institute for Genetics , and from 1999 to 2000 he studied science journalism. From 2008 to 2009 he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .

For his article on RNA interference in the German edition of the Technology Review , he was awarded the Heureka journalist prize donated by Sanofi-aventis in 2004. In 2006 he received the journalism award of the GlaxoSmithKline Foundation for his article “A switch for the genes” in Zeit Wissen , and the Matheon media award for “Swarming for the optimum” in McKWissen.

In 2012, Karberg and Alexander Schlichter directed the documentary “The Genetic Cooks - Biohackers and the Genetic Revolution”. They provide an insight into the possibilities of do-it-yourself biology . Under the working title “DNA Cooking”, they received first prize in the “TV Documentation” category in the documentary competition organized by Bayerischer Rundfunk and Telepool .

In his book Biohacking: Gentechnik aus der Garage , published in 2013 together with Hanno Charisius and Richard Friebe , he examines the biohacking scene in Europe and the USA . In it, Karberg demonstrates, among other things, an unusual application of DNA barcoding to find the cause of dog feces on his doorstep. For articles on these topics, the three received the Hofschneider Research Prize for Science and Medical Journalism in 2012/2013 .

Karberg lives in Berlin, is married and has three children.

Publications

with Martin Strödicke, Günter Korge: Domina (Dom), a new Drosophila member of the FKH / WH gene family, affects morphogenesis and is a suppressor of position-effect variegation . In: Mechanisms of Development . tape 96 , no. 1 , August 1, 2000, pp. 67-78 , doi : 10.1016 / S0925-4773 (00) 00371-3 .
Biotech's Perfect Storm . In: Cell . tape 138 , no. 3 , August 7, 2009, p. 413-415 , doi : 10.1016 / j.cell.2009.07.026 .
Switching on Epigenetic Therapy . In: Cell . tape 139 , no. 6 , December 11, 2009, p. 1029-1031 , doi : 10.1016 / j.cell.2009.11.038 .
with Annemarie Hofmann, Madeleine Brünner, Alexander Schwendemann, Martin Strödicke: The winged-helix transcription factor JUMU regulates development, nucleolus morphology and function, and chromatin organization of Drosophila melanogaster . In: Chromosome Research . tape 18 , no. 3 , March 6, 2010, p. 307-324 , doi : 10.1007 / s10577-010-9118-y .
with Alexander Schlichter: The gene cooks - biohackers and the genetic revolution . Documentary, 58 minutes, 2012.
with Hanno Charisius and Richard Friebe : Biohacking: genetic engineering from the garage . Carl Hanser Verlag , Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-43554-4 .
Report from the clone factory - The reproductive medicine specialist Karl Illmensee , Deutschlandfunk - " Background " from October 21, 2007

Web links

Literature by and about Sascha Karberg in the catalog of the German National Library
Short biography and reviews of works by Sascha Karberg at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Sascha Karberg. In: Pearl Divers . Retrieved January 17, 2017 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c CV Sascha Karberg. (PDF) In: Winner of the Peter Hans Hofschneider Research Award for Science and Medical Journalism. Experimental Biomedicine Foundation, accessed January 17, 2017 .
↑ ^a ^b Sascha Karberg - science journalist. In: Journalist Office Interface. Retrieved January 17, 2017 .
↑ Our microbiomes are us: An interview with KSJ alumni Hanno Charisius and Richard Friebe. In: Knight Science Journalism MIT . January 9, 2015, accessed January 16, 2017 .
↑ Winner: HEUREKA Journalist Award. In: journalistenpreise.de. Retrieved January 17, 2017 .
↑ Sascha Karberg: The silence of the genes. In: Technology Review . March 16, 2004, accessed January 17, 2017 .
↑ Sascha Karberg: The silence of the genes . In: Technology Review . tape 2004 , no. 4 , p. 38-48 .
^ The gene cooks. In: Bayerischer Rundfunk . April 9, 2013, accessed January 17, 2017 .
^ Howard Wolinsky: The FBI and biohackers: an unusual relationship . In: EMBO reports . tape 17 , no. 6 , June 1, 2016, ISSN 1469-221X , p. 793–796 , doi : 10.15252 / embr.201642483 .
↑ Thomas Landrain, Morgan Meyer, Ariel Martin Perez, Remi Sussan: Do-it-yourself biology: challenges and promises for an open science and technology movement . In: Systems and Synthetic Biology . tape 7 , no. 3 , August 2, 2013, p. 118 , doi : 10.1007 / s11693-013-9116-4 .
^ Winner of the Peter Hans Hofschneider Research Award for Science and Medical Journalism. In: Foundation for experimental biomedicine. Retrieved January 16, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Karberg, Sascha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German biologist, science journalist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH	15th October 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin

[perlentaucher-1] Sascha Karberg. In: Pearl Divers . Retrieved January 17, 2017 .

[:4-2] CV Sascha Karberg. (PDF) In: Winner of the Peter Hans Hofschneider Research Award for Science and Medical Journalism. Experimental Biomedicine Foundation, accessed January 17, 2017 .

[:0-3] Sascha Karberg - science journalist. In: Journalist Office Interface. Retrieved January 17, 2017 .

[4] Our microbiomes are us: An interview with KSJ alumni Hanno Charisius and Richard Friebe. In: Knight Science Journalism MIT . January 9, 2015, accessed January 16, 2017 .

[5] Winner: HEUREKA Journalist Award. In: journalistenpreise.de. Retrieved January 17, 2017 .

[6] Sascha Karberg: The silence of the genes. In: Technology Review . March 16, 2004, accessed January 17, 2017 .

[7] Sascha Karberg: The silence of the genes . In: Technology Review . tape 2004 , no. 4 , p. 38-48 .

[8] The gene cooks. In: Bayerischer Rundfunk . April 9, 2013, accessed January 17, 2017 .

[:22-9] Howard Wolinsky: The FBI and biohackers: an unusual relationship . In: EMBO reports . tape 17 , no. 6 , June 1, 2016, ISSN 1469-221X , p. 793–796 , doi : 10.15252 / embr.201642483 .

[10] Thomas Landrain, Morgan Meyer, Ariel Martin Perez, Remi Sussan: Do-it-yourself biology: challenges and promises for an open science and technology movement . In: Systems and Synthetic Biology . tape 7 , no. 3 , August 2, 2013, p. 118 , doi : 10.1007 / s11693-013-9116-4 .

[11] Winner of the Peter Hans Hofschneider Research Award for Science and Medical Journalism. In: Foundation for experimental biomedicine. Retrieved January 16, 2017 .