Formation and function of the Drosophila blood-brain barrier.
Function of glial cells in modulating neuronal conductance speed and ephaptic coupling.
Function of glial cells during action selection.
Navigation of Drosophila larvae.
For further information see: http://neurobio.uni-muenster.de/
Pogodalla, N., Kranenburg, H., Rey, S., Rodrigues, S., Cardona, A., and Klämbt, C. (2021) Drosophila ßHeavy-Spectrin is required in polarized ensheathing glia that form a diffusion-barrier around the neuropil. Nat Commun 12, 6357–18
Kottmeier, R., Bittern, J., Schoofs, A., Scheiwe, F., Matzat, T., Pankratz, M., and Klämbt, C. (2020). Wrapping glia regulates neuronal signaling speed and precision in the peripheral nervous system of Drosophila. Nat Commun 11, 4491–17.
Otto, N., Marelja, Z., Schoofs, A., Kranenburg, H., Bittern, J., Yildirim, K., Berh, D., Bethke, M., Thomas, S., Rode, S., Leimkühler, S., Pankratz, M., Klämbt, C. (2018). The sulfite oxidase Shopper controls neuronal activity by regulating glutamate homeostasis in Drosophila ensheathing glia. Nat Commun 9, 3514.
Babatz, F., Naffin, E., and Klämbt, C. (2018). The Drosophila Blood-Brain Barrier Adapts to Cell Growth by Unfolding of Pre-existing Septate Junctions. Developmental Cell 47, 697–710.e3.
Sasse, S., and Klämbt, C. (2016). Repulsive Epithelial Cues Direct Glial Migration along the Nerve. Developmental Cell 39, 696–707.
For more publications see: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=kl%C3%A4mbt+c
| 2001 | Offer of a C4 professorship position, University of Göttingen, declined |
| since 1997 | Professor and Chair, Institute for Neuro and Behavioural Biology, WWU Münster |
| 1995 | Offer of a C4 professorship position, University of Bonn, declined |
| 1993-1997 | DFG Heisenberg Fellowship |
| 1991.1993 | BMBF Fellowship |
| 1993 | Habilitation and Venia legendi in Developmental Biology |
| 1991-1997 | Group leader. Institute for Developmental Biology, University of Cologne |
| 1988-1990 | Postdoctoral Researcher. HHMI and Dept. of Molecular Biology, UC Berkeley, USA |
| 1987-1988 | Postdoctoral Researcher. Institute for Developmental Biology, University of Cologne |
| 1987 | Doctoral thesis. Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg |
| 1985 | Diploma thesis. Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg |
| 2018-present | Speaker CRC 1348 |
| 2016-2018 | Dean of the Faculty of Biology |
| 2012-present | Board of trustees, Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds |
| 2010-2021 | Editor of MOD and GEP |
| 2008-2016 |
Elected member of the DFG Fachkollegium “Grundlagen der Biologie und Medizin”, since 2012 speaker of this panel. |
| 2008-2011 | Dean of the Faculty of Biology |
| 2006 | Elected EMBO member |
| 2004-2005 | President, German Society for Developmental Biology |
| 2003-2015 |
Speaker SFB 629 |
| 1993 | Gerhard Hess Prize, DFG |