Prof. Dr. Ralf Baumeister

Bioinformatics and Molecular Genetics

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)

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.