Dr. Stefan Luschnig
Professor
Biology
University of Munster
Germany
Biography
1990-1996 Study of biology: University of Erlangen; 1996-2000 PhD: Max-Planck Institute of Developmental Biology Tübingen; 2000-2004 Postdoctoral research associate: Stanford University School of Medicine / Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA; 2004-2007 Research group leader at the Chair of Genetics , University of Bayreuth 2007-2015 Research group leader at the Institute of Molecular Biology, Zurich, Switzerland; 2015 - Professor for "Morphogenesis Tubular Organs" at WWU Münster / Cluster of Excellence "Cells in Motion" (CiM)
Research Interest
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of morphogenesis in epithelia; Dynamics of intracellular membrane and protein transport; Structure and function of epithelial barriers
Publications
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Förster, D. and Luschnig, S. (2012). Src42A-dependent polarized cell shape changes mediate epithelial tube elongation in Drosophila. Nature Cell Biology 14(5): 526–534.
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Byri, S., Misra, T., Syed, Z.A., Bätz, T., Shah, J., Boril, L., Glashauser, J., Aegerter-Wilmsen, T., Matzat, T., Moussian, B., Uv, A., and Luschnig, S. (2015). The triple-repeat protein Anakonda controls epithelial tricellular junction formation in Drosophila. Developmental Cell,
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Misra, T., Baccino Calace, M., Meyenhofer, T., Rodriguez-Crespo, D., Akarsu, H., Armenta-Calderón, R., Gorr, T.A., Frei, C., Cantera, R., Egger, B., and Luschnig, S. (2016). A genetically encoded biosensor for visualizing hypoxia responses in vivo. Biology Open 6(2): 296-304
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Caviglia, S., Brankatschk, M., Fischer, E., Eaton, S., and Luschnig, S. (2016). Staccato/unc13-4 controls secretory lysosome-mediated lumen fusion during epithelial tube anastomosis. Nature Cell Biology, 18(7): 727–739.
