Jörn Walter#
| Membership Number: | 5533 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://epigenetik.uni-saarland.de/en/home |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0563-7417 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1986 - 1990 PhD student, Max-Planck Institut for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany (with Thomas A. Trautner)
- 1990 - 1992 Postdoc, MPI for molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany (Dept. Trautner)
- 1992 - 1994 Postdoc (EU/EMBO-Fellowship), BBSRC Cambridge, UK (with Wolf Reik)
- 1994 - 2000 Group leader (Head of laboratory), MPI-MG, Berlin
- 2000 - today Chair of Genetics (Full Professor), Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Epigenetics
- DNA methylation
- Epigenetic reprogramming
- Genomic Imprinting
- Epigenomics
- Computational Epigenomics
- Functional Genomics
Honours and Awards
- Elected member of the German Research council reviewing board
- Elected spokesman of the reviewing board
- Nominated member of the Interdisciplinary Gentechnology task force of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
