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Prof. Dr. Christiane Richter-Landsberg
E-Mail: christiane.richter.landsberg@uol.de
Christiane Richter-Landsberg
Short Resume
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Christiane Richter-Landsberg
(married, two children)
- Graduated in Pharmacy at the University of Marburg
- Doctorate degree in biology (Dr. rer. nat) from the University of Göttingen with the thesis in neurochemistry at the Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Göttingen (1975)
- Post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (Minerva Fellowship)
- Three years of post-doctoral work at the Department of Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA and at the Department of Neurobiology, Stanford Medical School, USA
- Research assistant and assistant professor at the Department of Biology, University of Bremen, Germany
- Habilitation in Molecular Neurobiology, University of Bremen (1988)
- Since 1993: professor and head of the group Molecular Neurobiology/Neurochemistry at the Institute of Biology, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Teaching activities activities in cell biology and molecular neurobiology
- Undergraduate and graduate courses. Diploma and doctorate thesis advisor
- 2001 University award for excellence in teaching
- Children´s university / Kinderuniversität
- Children´s university in South Africa
Publications listed in PubMed
Books and special issues
- Heat shock proteins in neural cells
Ed. C. Richter-Landsberg. Neuroscience intelligence unit, Springer New York, Landes Bioscience/Eurekah. COM Austin, Texas, USA (2007)
- Oligodendrocytes. Special Issue
Guest Ed. C. Richter-Landsberg. Journal of Molecular Neuroscience 35 (1) (2008)
Memberships
- Society for Neuroscience
- International Society for Neurochemistry
- European Society for Neurochemistry (Member of the council)
- Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie (GBM) (Kontaktperson für die Universität Oldenburg)
- German Neuroscience Association (Neurowissenschaftliche Gesellschaft)
Research interests
- Biology of oligodendrocytes, the myelin forming cells of the CNS, in health and disease
- The regulation of oligodendrocyte differentiation in vitro
- The oligodendroglial cytoskeleton and the microtubule associated protein tau in oligodendrocytes during normal development and pathological situations
- Molecular signals that are involved in the regulation of death and survival
- Stress responses in oligodendrocytes (oxidative stress, proteasomal stress) and the role of stress-induced proteins
- Molecular mechanisms underlying protein aggregate formation as observed in neurodegenerative diseases with glial pathology, such as MSA, PSP and CBD