Felix Wieland#
| Membership Number: | 2970 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.bzh.uni-heidelberg.de |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2003 Chairman of SFB 638 (collaborative research program), Heidelberg: ”Dynamics of macromolecular complexes in biosynthetic transport”
- 2001 Managing Editor FEBS Letters
- 1988 Full tenured professor and director of the Institute for Biochemistry I, University of Heidelberg
- 1984 - 1986 ‘Akademischer Oberrat’ at the University of Regensburg
- 1978 - 1984 ‘Akademischer Rat’ at the University of Regensburg, Institute for Biochemistry
- 1978 PhD in Chemistry, Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Munich (F. Lynen)
- 1976 - 1978 ‘Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter’ at the Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Munich
Fields of Scholarship
- Vesicular transport
- Golgi function
- Coatomer and COPI-coated vesicles
- Arf1 GTPase
- Lipid biosynthesis and transport
- Quantitative lipid analysis by nano-electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry
- Protein-lipid interactions
Honours and Awards
- 2011 Member of the Academia Europea
- 2006 Feldberg Foundation Prize
- 2003 Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
- 2001 Heinrich Wieland Prize
- 2000 Member of EMBO
- 1993 Honorary member of the Charité (Medical Faculty of Humboldt University Berlin)
