Brigitte Jockusch
Brigitte Maria Jockusch (born Brigitte Schenk, 27 September 1939 Berlin ) is German Professor Emeritus of Zoology and Cell Biology.[1] She was awarded the Lower Saxony Order of Merit, and Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.[2]
Life
[edit]Brigitte Jockusch studied at the LMU Munich and the University of Tübingen. She was a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Biology (MPI) in Tübingen. From 1968 to 1970 , she worked at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research at the University of Wisconsin. From 1971 to 1974, she was a working group leader at Max Planck Institute for Biology. She was a lecturer, at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, from 1975–1977; Group Leader, at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) from 1978 to 1981; professor at the [[University of from 1982 to 1993; and professorship and director at the Technical University of Braunschweig from 1994 to 2004.
Brigitte Jockusch was the founding spokesperson of a DFG Collaborative Research Center, the founding spokesperson of the International Graduate School Lower Saxony/Israel from 2001, a member of the “Minerva Committee for German-Israeli Cooperation” of the Max Planck Society from 1991 to 1999. She was a member of the Science Council from 1996 to 2011, and a curator of the Volkswagen Foundation from 2002 to 2012.
After her retirement in 2004, she continued her scientific work at the TU Braunschweig in several DFG research groups and graduate schools. During 2011 to 2017), she served on the national body appointed by the DFG to investigate scientific misconduct .[3]
Works
[edit]- Watanabe, N. (1997-06-01). "p140mDia, a mammalian homolog of Drosophila diaphanous, is a target protein for Rho small GTPase and is a ligand for profilin". The EMBO Journal. 16 (11): 3044–3056. doi:10.1093/emboj/16.11.3044. PMC 1169923. PMID 9214622.
- Jockusch, Brigitte M.; Bubeck, Peter; Giehl, Klaudia; Kroemker, Martina; Moschner, Jutta; Rothkegel, Martin; Rudiger, Manfred; Schluter, Kathrin; Stanke, Gesa; Winkler, Jörg (1995). "The Molecular Architecture of Focal Adhesions". Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. 11 (1): 379–416. doi:10.1146/annurev.cb.11.110195.002115. ISSN 1081-0706.
- Laurent, Valérie; Loisel, Thomas P.; Harbeck, Birgit; Wehman, Ann; Gröbe, Lothar; Jockusch, Brigitte M.; Wehland, Jürgen; Gertler, Frank B.; Carlier, Marie-France (1999-03-22). "Role of Proteins of the Ena/VASP Family in Actin-based Motility of Listeria monocytogenes". The Journal of Cell Biology. 144 (6): 1245–1258. doi:10.1083/jcb.144.6.1245. ISSN 0021-9525. PMC 2150578. PMID 10087267.
- Chorev, Dror S.; Volberg, Tova; Livne, Ariel; Eisenstein, Miriam; Martins, Bruno; Kam, Zvi; Jockusch, Brigitte M.; Medalia, Ohad; Sharon, Michal; Geiger, Benny (2018-02-09). "Conformational states during vinculin unlocking differentially regulate focal adhesion properties". Scientific Reports. 8 (1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-21006-8. ISSN 2045-2322.
References
[edit]- ^ Jockusch, Brigitte M.; Jockusch, Harald (2008). "Chapter 7 Sailing Side by Side". Comprehensive Biochemistry. Elsevier. p. 417–564. doi:10.1016/s0069-8032(08)00007-7. ISBN 978-0-444-53225-1. ISSN 0069-8032.
- ^ "Bundesverdienstkreuz für Professorin Brigitte Jockusch". TU Braunschweig | Blogs (in German). Retrieved 2024-11-27.
- ^ "Interview: Brigitte Jockusch zu wissenschaftlichem Fehlverhalten". www.laborjournal.de. Retrieved 2024-11-27.