Peter B. Becker#
| Membership Number: | 2452 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2007 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.molekularbiologie.abi.med.uni-muenchen.de/ueber_uns/becker/index.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2008 Acting Director of the Adolf‐Butenandt‐Institute, Germany
- 1999 Full Professor and Head of Molecular Biology Section, Adolf-Butenandt-Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, München
- 1996 - 1999 Group leader, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg
- 1996 Habilitation
- 1988 - 1996 Postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Carl Wu, Laboratory of Biochemistry, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA
- 1987 - 1989 Postdoctoral fellow with Prof. G. Schütz, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany
- 1987 Ph.D. Ruprecht-Karls Universität, Heidelberg
Fields of Scholarship
- Chromatin structure and function
- Regulation of gene expression by epigenetic principles
- Molecularbiology
Honours and Awards
- 1987 Young Investigators Award, "Society for Molecular Biology", Heidelberg
- 1988 Richtzenhain-Prize for Cancer Research, DKFZ, Heidelberg
- 2000 Elected Member of EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organisation)
- 2005 Gottfried-Wilhelm Leibniz Award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- 2007 Elected Member of the German Academy of Science "Leopoldina"
- 2007 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2011 ERC Advanced Investigator Grant awarded
