Thomas Jenuwein#
| Membership Number: | 3703 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/jenuwein |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2008 Director, Department of Epigenetics, Max-Planck Institute Freiburg
- 2002-2008 Senior Scientist at IMP, Vienna
- 1993-2001 Group Leader at IMP, Vienna
- 1990-1993 Special fellow of the Leukemia Society of America
- 1988-1993 Postdoctoral fellow at UCSF, San Francisco
- 1987 Ph.D. in Molecular Biology
- 1983-1987 Ph.D studies at EMBL, Heidelberg
Fields of Scholarship
- Chromatin research
- Histone methyltransferases
- Histone modifications
- Heterochromatin formation
- Epigenetic control of gene expression
Honours and Awards
- 2002 Elected member of EMBO
- 2002 - 2007 Member Faculty of 1000 (Nuclear Structure and Function)
- 2003 Honorary Professorship in Epigenetics at Vienna University
- 2005 Sir Hans Krebs Medal of FEBS Society
- 2007 Erwin Schrödinger Prize, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2010 Honorary Professorship, University of Freiburg
