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
Research Interests
Biochemistry of membrane proteins; molecular and cellular neuroscience; synapse formation more...
Education
- Ph.D., Humboldt University of Berlin, 1998
Selected Publications
- 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 J, in press.
- Robbins, E.M., Krupp, A.J., Perez de Arce, K., Ghosh, A.K., Fogel, A.I., Boucard, A.A., Südhof, T.C., Stein, V., and Biederer, T. (2010) SynCAM 1 adhesion dynamically regulates synapse number and impacts plasticity and learning. Neuron 68, 894-906.
- Fogel, A.I., Li, Y., Giza, J., Wang, Q., Lam, T.T., Modis, Y., and Biederer, T. (2010) N-Glycosylation of the SynCAM immunoglobulin interface modulates synaptic adhesion. Journal of Biological Chemistry 285, 34864-34874.
