Paul Heppenstall
Group Leader
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Germany
Biography
PhD 1997, University of Edinburgh. Postdoctoral work at the Max Delbrück Centrum, Berlin. Junior Professor at the Charité, Berlin. Group leader at EMBL since 2008. Group leader in the Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit.
Research Interest
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Publications
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Morley SJ, Qi YM, Iovino L, Andolfi L, Guo D, Kalebic N, Castaldi L, Tischer C, Portulano C, Bolasco G, Shirlekar K, Fusco CM, Asaro A, Fermani F, Sundukova M, Matti U, Reymond L, De Ninno A, Businaro L, Johnsson K, Lazzarino M, Ries J, Schwab Y, Hu J, Heppenstall PA. (2016) Acetylated tubulin is essential for touch sensation in mice ELIFE 5 doi: 10.7554/eLife.20813
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Arcourt A, Gorham L, Dhandapani R, Prato V, Taberner FJ, Wende H, Gangadharan V, Birchmeier C, Heppenstall PA, Lechner SG. (2017) Touch Receptor-Derived Sensory Information Alleviates Acute Pain Signaling and Fine-Tunes Nociceptive Reflex Coordination. Neuron 93(1):179-193. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.11.027
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Murana E, Pagani F, Basilico B, Sundukova M, Batti L, Di Angelantonio S, Cortese B, Grimaldi A, Francioso A, Heppenstall P, Bregestovski P, Limatola C, Ragozzino D. (2017) ATP release during cell swelling activates a Ca(2+)-dependent Cl(-) current by autocrine mechanism in mouse hippocampal microglia. Sci Rep 7(1) doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-04452-8