Thomas Biederer PhD
Associate Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Departments & Organizations
Affiliated Faculty
Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Neuroscience | Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology: Membrane Biology and Motion; Neurobiology
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry: Neurobiology | Biederer Lab
Research Interests
Biochemistry of membrane proteins; molecular and cellular neuroscience; synapse formation more...
Education
- Ph.D., Humboldt University of Berlin, 1998
Selected Publications
- Cheadle, L. and Biederer, T. The novel synaptogenic protein Farp1 links postsynaptic cytoskeletal dynamics and trans-synaptic organization. The Journal of Cell Biology, in press.
- Wilke, S.A., Hall, B.J., Antonios, J.K., DeNardo, L.A., Otto, S., Yuan, B., Chen, F., Robbins, E.M., Tiglio, K., Qiu, Z., Biederer, T. and Ghosh, A. (2012) NeuroD2 regulates the development of hippocampal mossy fiber synapses. Neural Development 7: 9.
- Fogel, A.I., Stagi, M., Perez de Arce, K., and Biederer, T. (2011). Lateral assembly of the immunoglobulin protein SynCAM 1 controls its adhesive function and instructs synapse formation. EMBO Journal 30: 4728-4738
