Genetics of the Immune System

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Professor and Head, Department of Cell Genetics, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne

EDUCATION:
• 1964 BA (Zoology) Oxford
• 1964-1965 Royal Society Leverhulme Scholarship, Genetics and Biometry Laboratory (Laboratory of Prof JBS Haldane), Government of Orissa, Agricultural University, Bhubaneswar, India
• 1969 DPhil (Medicine) Oxford 'Cellular Aspects of Antibody Formation' Supervisor Prof JL Gowans, MRC Cellular Immunology Unit, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford

MEMBERSHIPS:
• 1994-1995 Member, Cell and Molecular Biology Board, Medical Research Council, UK
• 1996-1999 Member, later Chairman, Sectional Committee 7, Royal Society, London
• 1996-1999 Molecular Biology Grants Committee, Human Frontiers Science Programme (HFSP), Strassburg
• 1996-present Member, now Chairman, Scientific Advisory Board, CNRS-INSERM Institut d’Immunologie Marseille-Luminy, France
• 1996-2004 Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology, Freiburg
• 2002-2005 Member, Courses and Workshops Committee, EMBO, Heidelberg
• 2004-present Member, Board of Trustees, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding, Cologne, Germany
• 2004-present Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Gulbenkian Institute of Sciences, Lisbon, Portugal
• 2004 Max Planck Society Research Field Rapporteur (with Prof Guenther Schütz)
• 2005-2007 Member, Sectional Committee 7, Royal Society, London
• 2007-present Member, SNWG selection committee of the MPG
• 2008-present Member, University Research Fellowships Committee, Royal Society
• 2009- present Member, Acting Chairman, Scientific Advisory Board, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen

AWARDS:
• 1971 Fulbright Scholarship
• 1970-1973 Weir Junior Research Fellowship, University College, Oxford
• 1974-1979 Research Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge
• 1993 EMBO member
• 1995 Fellow of Royal Society (FRS)
• 2007 Member Academia Europaea
• 2011 Donald Gordon Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS)

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Function of the interferon-inducible immunity-related GTPases in the innate immune response to Toxoplasma gondii infection.