!!Thomas Jentsch - Curriculum vitae

*since 2009	Deputy director of Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP)
*since 2006	Head, Department of Physiology and Pathology of Ion Transport, Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie and Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
*since 2006	Full Professor (W3), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
*1995 – 2006	Director, Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Hamburg University
*1993	Full Professor (C4), Molecular Neuropathology, ZMNH
*1991	Habilitation in Cell Biochemistry, University Medical Center Hamburg 
*1988 – 1993	Research group leader, ZMNH
*1986 – 1988	Postdoctoral fellow, (with Harvey F. Lodish) at the Whitehead Institute (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Cambridge, Massachusetts
*1984	M.D. (thesis on pHi-regulating processes; thesis adviser: Prof. Wiederholt), Institute for Clinical Physiology, Freie Universität Berlin (FU)
*1982	PhD in Physics (thesis on field ionization (surface physics), thesis adviser: Prof. Block); Fritz-Haber-Institute (Max-Planck-Society), Berlin
*1981 – 1985	Staff scientist (Prof. Wiederholt), Institut für Klinische Physiologie, FU Berlin 1974 – 1980	Studies in Physics, FU Berlin
*1972 – 1978	Studies in Medicine, FU Berlin
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__Research fields__
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Our group is active in the field of physiology and pathology of ion transport with the major areas:
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*Cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration, epilepsy, sensory biology
*Cell biology and (patho) physiology of cell volume regulation and associated signaling in the CNS
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__Mouse models__
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*Intracellular trafficking, endosomal/lysosomal traffic, and function
*Kidney physiology, transepithelial transport