User:Jörn Walter

Prof. Dr. Jörn Walter FR8.3 Genetik/Epigenetik Universität des Saarlandes Gebäude A2.4 Campus Saarbrücken 66123 Saarbrücken email: j.walter@mx.uni-saarland.de Tel.:. 0681 302 2425 Fax: 0681 302 2703

Degrees:

1990 Dr. rer. nat., Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany 1999 Habilitation in Genetics, HU Berlin, Germany 2000 Venia legendi, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany

Fellowships 1990-1992 Postdoctoral Fellowship (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) 1992-1993 Postdoctoral Fellowshisp awarded by the European Communities and EMBO

Positions help

1990-1992 Research Assistant, Max-Planck-Institut fuer molekulare Genetik, Berlin, Germany 1992-1993 Postdoctoral fellow at the BBSRC, Cambridge, U.K. 1994-2000 Group leader at the Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Genetik,Berlin, Germany since Nov.2000 Full Professor(Genetics) Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany

Selected external activites 1999 Cofounder of Epigenomics AG, Berlin 2000- Scientific advisor of Epigenomics AG, Berlin 1997-2001 Coordinator of a HSFP Project 2002-2008 Coordinator of the DFG priority program SPP1129 „Epigenetics“ 2003-2009 Member and sub-project coordinator of the NoE „The Epigenome“ since 2007 Member of the program committee of the SPP 1356

„Pluripotency und Reprogramming“ 

since 2008 Editorial board member of the journal „Epigeneics&Chromatin“ since 2008 Member of the „Faculty of 1000“

Research Fields Epigenomics, Nuclear reprogramming, DNA-methylation, Genomic Imprinting