Peter Hegemann (PI; Humboldt University Berlin)
Project(s) involved: Baier/Elstner/Hegemann/Schneider
Project(s) involved: Hegemann/Rost
Curriculum vitae Peter Hegemann
Date/place of birth Dec. 12, 1954 - Münster, Germany
Affiliation Department of Biology, HU Berlin, Invalidenstraße 42, 10115, Berlin
Telephone +49 (0) 30 20938681
Fax +49 (0) 30 20938585
Email hegemann@rz.hu-berlin.de
Scientific vita
>2016 Hertie Professor for Neuroscience, HU Berlin
2004-2015 C4/W3-Professor of Experimental Biophysics, HU Berlin
1993-2004 Professor of Biochemistry, Univ. Regensburg
1992 Habilitation for Biochemistry, LMU Munich
1986-1992 Research Group at the MPI for Biochemistry, Martinsried
1985-1986 PostDoc with Kenneth W. Foster at the Physics Dept., Syracuse Univ., NY, USA
1980-1984 PhD under supervision of Prof. Dieter Oesterhelt, MPI, Martinsried
1975-1980 Chemistry studies at Univ. Münster and LMU München, Diploma: 1980
Research fields
Molecular photobiology: Blue-light receptors, unusual rhodopsins, algal physiology, Optogentics, vectorial catalysis
Awards (selection)
2016 Honorary Bonhöffer Lecture Göttingen
2016 Hector Science Award and Hector Fellow, 2016
2015 Science Prize of the Berlin Mayor
2015 Honorary Professorship of Nangjing University of Science and Technology
2014 Member of the Akademie der Technikwissenschaften (acatech)
2014 Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)
2013 “Brain Prize” of the G. Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation, Kopenhagen
2013 Louis-Jeantet Award, Geneva
2013 Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2013 Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina
2012 Zülch Preis for Fundamental Advances in Neurobiology, Cologne
2010 Wiley Prize for Biomedical Innovation, New York
2010 Karl Heinz Beckurts-Preis, for basic research and application, München
Received offers of full professorships
2012 Professorship at the IST Austria, Kloster Neuburg near Vienna
1998 Full Professorship of Plant Molecular Biology, U Aarhus, Denmark
1994 C4-Professorship of Biochemistry, U Rostock
Organizational activities (selection)
2016: Organizer: 17. Intern. Conf. on Retinal Proteins (ICRP), Potsdam
2014/ 2016 Coorganizer: Genetic Manipulation of Neural Activity, HHMI
Janelia Farm, Ashburn, VA, USA
2012 Organizer of a „Dahlem Conference about Optogenetics“, Free University Berlin
2012 Coorganzier of the „15th intenational conference of the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas“ in Berlin
Five Recent Publications
Stierl, M., Stumpf, P., Udwari, D., Gueta, R., Hagedorn, R., Losi, A., Gärtner, W., Petereit, L., Efetova, M., Schwarzel, M., Oertner, T.G., Nagel, G., and Hegemann, P. (2011) Light-modulation of cellular cAMP by a small bacterial photoactivated adenylyl cyclase, bPAC, J. Biol. Chem. 286: 1181-1188.
Yizhar, O., Fenno, L.E., Prigge, M., Schneider, F., Davidson, T.J., O’Shea, D.J., Sohal, V.S., Goshen, I., Finkelstein, J., Paz, J., Stehfest, K., Fudim, R., Ramakrishnan, C., Huguenard, J., Hegemann, P.*, and Deisseroth, K.* (2011) Neocortical excitation/inhibition balance in information processing and social dysfunction. Nature 477,171-178.
Zhang, F., Vierock, J., Yizhar, O., Fenno, L., Tsunoda, S., Kianianmomeni, A., Prigge, M., Berndt, A., Cushman, J., Polle, J., Magnuson, J., Hegemann, P., and Deisseroth, K. (2011) The microbial opsin family of optogenetic tools.. Cell 147, 1446 - 1457.
Schneider, F., Grimm, C. and Hegemann, P. (2015) Biophysics of Channelrhodopsin. Ann. Rev. Biophysics. 44, 167 – 186.
Scheib, U., Stehfest, K., Gee, C. E., Körschen, H.G., Fudim, R., Oertner, T. G., and Hegemann, P. (2015) The rhodopsin-guanylyl cyclase of the aquatic fungus Blastocladiella emersonii enables fast optical control of cGMP signaling. Science Signaling 8, 389 rs8x