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Dr. Dorothea Schulte

Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
Deutschordenstraße 46
D-60528 Frankfurt/Main

Tel.: +49(0)6996769-335
Fax: +49(0)6996769-206
E-mail



Curriculum Vitae

1996 Dissertation am Lehrstuhl für Molekulare Genetik, Universität Konstanz, Prof. Rolf Knippers
1996 - 2001 Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School Boston, USA, Department of Genetics and HHMI, Prof. Connie Cepko
seit 2001 Gruppenleiterin am Max Planck Institut für Hirnforschung, Frankfurt
seit 2008 Venia legendi im Fach Genetik, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz



Group Member: Zsuzsa Agoston



Project: Molecular mechanisms of embryonic and adult neurogenesis



Recent publications

Agoston Z., Schulte D., (2009)
Meis2 competes with the Groucho co-repressor Tle4 for binding to Otx2 and specifies tectal fate without induction of a secondary midbrain-hindbrain boundary organizer
Development 136, 3311-3322 (2009) doi:10.1242/dev.037770

Heine P, Dohle E, Schulte D, (2009)
Sonic hedgehog signaling accelerates Meis2 downregulation simultaneously with retinal ganglion cell genesis.
NeuroReport 20:279-84.

Badde A and Schulte D, (2008)
A role for Receptor Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase lambda in midbrain development.
Journal of Neuroscience 28:6152-6164

Golz S, Mühleisen TW, Schulte D, Mey J, (2008)
Regulation of RALDH-1, RALDH-3 and CYP26A1 by transcription factors cVax and Tbx5 in the embryonic chick retina.
Int. J. Dev. Biol., 26:435-445

Vennemann A, Agoston Z, Schulte D, (2008)
Differential and dose-dependent regulation of gene expression at the mid-hindbrain boundary by Ras-MAP kinase signaling.
Brain Research, 1206:33-43

Heine P, Dohle E, Bumsted-O'Brien KM, Engelkamp D, Schulte D, (2008)
Evidence for an evolutionary conserved role of homothorax / Meis1/2 during vertebrate retina development.
Development, 135:805-811

Bumsted-O'Brien KM, Hendrickson AE, Haverkamp S, Ashery-Padan R, Schulte D, (2007)
Expression of the homeodomain transcription factor Meis2 in the embryonic and postnatal retina.
Journal of Comparative Neurology, 505:58-72

Mühleisen TW, Agoston A, Schulte D, (2006)
Retroviral Misexpression of cVax disturbs retinal ganglion cell axon fasciculation and intraretinal pathfinding in vivo and guidance of nasal ganglion cell axons in vitro.
Developmental Biology, 297:59-73

Badde A, Bumsted-O'Brien KM, Schulte D, (2005)
Chick receptor protein tyrosine phosphatase lambda/psi (cRPTPlambda/cRPTPpsi) is dynamically expressed at the midbrain-hindbrain boundary and in the embryonic neural retina.
Gene Expression Pattern, 5:789-791

Schulte D*, Peters MA, Sen J, Cepko CL*, (2005)
The rod photoreceptor pattern is set at the optic vesicle stage and requires spatially restricted cVax expression.
Journal of Neuroscience, 25(11):2823-2831, [*co-corresponding authors].


petra janson, 05-05-2009