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Carien Niessen - F1000 Faculty Member (since 14 September 2009)

Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Professor, Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Cologne

EDUCATION:
• 6-28-1996 Graduate School of Oncology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• 1996 Postdoctoral fellow at The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Laboratory of Dr A Sonnenberg, Division of Cell Biology
• 1997-2001 Postdoctoral fellow at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, Laboratory of Dr BM Gumbiner, Cellular Biochemistry & Biophysics

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
The role of adherens junctions and polarity proteins in epidermal barrier formation and function.

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