Kerstin Krieglstein

Biography

Kerstin Krieglstein is professor and chair of the Department of Molecular Embryology at the School of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg. She is married to Anna, Christine and Sebastian. Following the state doctorate (Habilitation) in anatomy and cell biology in 1997 in Heidelberg, she became a research associate professor (C3) for anatomy at the University of Saarland in 1999 and full professor (C4) and head of the Department of Neuroanatomy at the University of Göttingen, Germany in 2001. During this period Kerstin Krieglstein was a member of the DFG Center of Excellence, Department of Molecular Physiology of the Brain (2002) "Developmental Neuroscience" and as a Steering Committee member until 2007. In 2006 she received a call as professor of anatomy and head of the Dept. of Molecular Embryology, which is accepted in 2007. Since 2009 Kerstin Krieglstein is also a chair of the Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology. Kerstin Krieglstein is a scientific advisor to the German Research Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, BMBF. 

Research Interest

Research Focus Growth factors in nervous system development: induction and specification of neuronal phenotypes, regulation of neuronal survival, ontogentic cell death, synaptogenesis, functions, signaling and contextual actions of TGF-ß and related proteins