Amparo Acker-Palmer#
| Membership Number: | 3803 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://neuro-vessel-frankfurt.de |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2014, 07 Max Planck Fellow, MPI for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany
- Since 2012, 01 Faculty member of the Focus Program Translational Neurosciences (FTN), University Mainz, Germany
- Since 2011, 04 Full Professor: Chair of the Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
- 2007,11-2011,03 Professor W2 Cluster of Excellence „Macromolecular Complexes” (CEF), Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
- 2001, 08-2007, 10 Max Planck Independent Junior Research Group Leader. MPI of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany
- 1996, 07- 2001, 07 Postdoc, Developmental Biology, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Developmental Neurobiology (synapse formation, dendritic arborization, cortex development)
- Synaptic plasticity (molecular mechanisms of Eph/ephrin and reelin signaling during synaptic plasticity)
- Neurovascular Link (instructive roles of vessels during neuronal migration, dendritic arborization, synapse formation)
- Blood Brain Barrier (Reelin, VEGFR and ephrinB signaling in Blood Brain Barrier formation and maintenance)
- Angiogenesis (Developmental retinal angiogenesis and pathological angiogenesis of solid tumors)
- Tumor Biology (progression and invasion of gliomas, tumor metastasis in the brain)
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Max Planck Fellow
- 2012 Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2012 Gutenberg Forschungskolleg (GFK) Fellow
- 2010 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstädter Prize for Young Investigators
- 1997 Ph.D. Extraordinary Award by Valencia University
