Lars Nitschke#
| Membership Number: | 5520 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.genetik.nat.fau.de |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004 - present Professor of Genetics, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Department of Biology, Erlangen
- 2017 Sabbatical at Monash University, Melbourne; Australia (Prof. David Tarlinton's lab), for 5 months
- 2009 Sabbatical at University of Cambridge, UK (Prof. Ken Smith's lab), for 6 months
- 1997 - 2004 Group leader at the Institute of Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg
- 1993 - 1997 Postdoc at Max-Planck-Institute for Immunobiology, Freiburg
Fields of Scholarship
- B cell immunology
- B cell inhibitory receptors
- Autoimmunity mouse models
- Genetic mouse models
- B cell signaling
- Siglec receptors
Honours and Awards
- 2004 “Fachimmunologe” of the German Society of Immunology
- 1998 Jubilee scholarship from the University of Würzburg
- 1989 - 1993 Max-Planck fellowship for PhD thesis
- 1985 - 1986 Scholarship from the University of Freiburg for studies of biochemistry at the University of Sussex, UK.
