Prof. Dr. Ralf Baumeister
Focus of research
- Genetics and biochemistry of ageing
- cancer and tumorigenesis
- Stress response signaling
CV
- Bruce Alberts (Mol. Biol. of the Cell): “As incredible as it seems, future research on flies and worms will quite often provide the shortest and most efficient path to curing human diseases”
- Since 2003 Professor (Ordinarius) of Bioinformatics and Molecular Genetics, University of Freiburg, Germany. Affiliation: Faculties of Biology and of Medicine
- Since 2013 Furtwangen University, Faculty of Medical and Life Sciences: Member of the Advisory Board
- 2007–2010 Director of FRIAS LIFENET (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Section Life Sciences)
- 2005–2010 Founding Director of ZBSA (Freiburg Center for Systems Biology)
- 2006–2008 Director of Institute of Biology III
- 2000–2003 Professor of Metabolic Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, LMU University of Munich, Germany
- 1998 Founder of EleGene Inc., Pharmaceutical and Genetic Screening Company, Martinsried, Germany
- 1995–2000 Group leader, Genzentrum, LMU University of Munich, Germany
- 1992–1995 Postdoc, Harvard Medical School, Mass. General Hospital, Boston, USA (lab of Gary Ruvkun)
- 1988–1992 PhD (Dr. rer nat). in Microbiology and Biochemistry, University of Erlangen (lab of Prof. Wolfgang Hillen) (summa cum laude, excellent)
Selected publications
- Xu F, Li R, von Gromoff ED, Drepper F, Knapp B, Warscheid B, Baumeister, R, Qi W (2023) Reprogramming of the transcriptome after heat stress mediates heat hormesis in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nat Commun. 2023 Jul 13;14(1):4176. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-39882-8. PMID: 37443152; PMCID: PMC10345090.
- Wu G, Baumeister R, Heimbucher T. (2023) Molecular Mechanisms of Lipid-Based Metabolic Adaptation Strategies in Response to Cold. Cells. 2023 May 10;12(10):1353. doi: 10.3390/cells12101353. PMID: 37408188; PMCID: PMC10216534.
- Qi W, Gromoff EDV, Xu F, Zhao Q, Yang W, Pfeifer D, Maier W, Long L, Baumeister R. (2021). The secreted endoribonuclease ENDU-2 from the soma protects germline immortality in C. elegans. Nature Commun. Feb 24;12(1):1262. Author correction: Nature Commun 2021 May 28;12(1):3315. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-23820-7
- Heimbucher T, Hog J, Gupta P, Murphy CT (2020) PQM-1 controls hypoxic survival via regulation of lipid metabolism. Nat Commun. 2020 Oct 2;11(1):4627. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18369-w. Erratum in: Nat Commun. 2020 Nov 20;11(1):6018. PMID: 33009389; PMCID: PMC7532158.
- Aspernig, H., Heimbucher, T. Qi, W., Gangurde, D., Curic., S., Yan, Y., Donner von Gromoff, E., Baumeister, R.(*), Thien A. (2019) Mitochondrial perturbations couple mTORC2 to autophagy in C. elegans. Cell Rep. 5; 29(6):1399-1409. (*) corresponding author.