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Rudolf Virchow Center for Integrative and Translational Bioimaging

About Caroline Kisker

Prof. Dr. Caroline Kisker is Vice President of the University of Würzburg since 2021 and was Speaker & Co-Speaker of the Rudolf Virchow Center (2016 - 2021).

Since 2006 she is the Head of the Chair of Structural Biology at the Rudolf Virchow Center and Dean of the Graduate School of Life Sciences at the University of Würzburg (2009 - 2021).

An overview of all her academic positions, affiliations and memberships can be found in her Curriculum Vitae (see below).

Research

The Chair of Structural Biology is using high resolution structural biology in combination with state-of-the-art biochemical and biophysical analyses to address fundamental questions in DNA repair mechanisms, the maintenance of genomic integrity, and deubiquitination cascades. More details

 

Teaching at the University

Winter Semester

  • "Strukturbiologie - Struktur und Funktion biologischer Makromoleküle";  WUESTUDY: 07321010
  • "Literaturseminar DNA-Reparatur";  WUESTUDY: 07323480

Summer Semester:

  • "Makromolekulare Kristallographie";  WUESTUDY: 07323460
  • "Literaturseminar DNA-Reparatur";  WUESTUDY: 07323480

Current positions

  • Executive Board Member of the Rudolf Virchow Center (since 2022)
  • Vice-President for Research and Academic Development of the University of Würzburg (since 2021)
  • Chair of Structural Biology (W3) of University of Würzburg (since 2005)

     

Previous positions

  • Speaker of the Rudolf Virchow Center at the University of Würzburg (2020 - 2021)
  • Speaker of the University Senate, University of Würzburg (2019 - 2021)
  • President of the German Society for DNA Repair (2018 - 2021)
  • Co-Chair Rudolf Virchow Center for Experimental Biomedicine (2016 - 2020)
  • Vice Chair Scientific Advisory Board of the Helmholtz Center for Infectious Disease (2012 - 2020)
  • Dean Graduate School of Life Sciences of University of Würzburg (2009 - 2021)
  • Vice Chair Rudolf Virchow Center for Experimental Biomedicine (2009 - 2016)
  • Vice-Dean (Research), Medical Faculty, University of Würzburg (2011 - 2013)

Research Experience

2001 - 2005       Associate Professor, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
1998 - 2001       Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
1994 - 1998       Postdoc, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

Education

1991 ‐ 1994        Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
1986 - 1991        Studies in Biochemistry, Free University of Berlin

Honors

  • Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (since 2017)
  • Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 2011)
  • 1995 Carl Ramsauer Award for Ph.D. Thesis
  • 1995-1997 Postdoctoral Fellowship Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
  • 1998-1999 Targeted Research Opportunity Award SUNY Stony Brook
  • 2000-2004 PEW Scholar in Biomedical Sciences

Editorial and selected advisory boards

  • Member of the „Auswahlausschuss für das Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Programm“ (since 2023)
  • Member of the DFG Fachkollegium 201 Basic Research in Biology and Medicine (since 2020)
  • Member of the International Advisory Board of the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw (since 2020)
  • Member of the “Senats and Bewilligungsausschuss für Graduiertenkollegs der DFG” (since 2014 - 2019)
  • Member of the Editorial Board NAR Cancer, Oxford University Press (since 2019)
  • Member and Speaker of the Senate of the University of Würzburg (since 2019)
  • President of the German Society for Research on DNA Repair (since 2018)
  • Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (since 2017)
  • Member of the “Senats- und Bewilligungsausschuss für Graduiertenkollegs der DFG” (2014 - 2019)
  • Reviewer for the European Research Council (2014)
  • Member of the scientific advisory Board of the Bavarian Science Foundation (2013)
  • Vice-Chair of the Scientific Committee of the Helmholtz-Center for Infection Research, Braunschweig,Germany (2012 - 2020)
  • Member of the Scientific Committee of the Helmholtz-Center for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany (2012 - 2020)
  • Member of the scientific advisory Board of the Bavarian Science Foundation (2013)
  • Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 2011)
  • Vice Chair Structural Biology, Section of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2007 - 2012)
  • Editorial Board DNA Repair (since 2002)