Dr. Jan Ellenberg
Head of Unit and Senior Scientist
Head of Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit
EMBLEM Technology
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Biography
Biography PhD 1998, Freie Universität Berlin. Predoctoral and postdoctoral research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda. Group leader at EMBL since 1999. Head of Gene Expression Unit 2006-2010. Head of Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit since 2010. ERC Advanced Investigator since 2016.
Research Interest
Cells are the smallest autonomous units of life and occupy the midpoint between the molecular and macroscopic scales. In order to understand how living systems are built and function, we need to understand the physical principles that underlie cellular organisation and function. It is in the cell where we will first understand the basic processes of life at the molecular level in a physiological context. The cell provides the natural coordinate system in space and time onto which we have to map and integrate genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, structural and biophysical information about the molecules that make up living systems. In short, cell biology has become an integrative hub of much of modern biological research.
