Previous Research of Steffen Dietzel
Organization of metaphase chromosomes
Before I came to Munich, from February 1998 until April 2000, I was a
Post-doc in the group of Andrew S. Belmont at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. We were able to describe a reproducible but dynamic
positioning of DNA within chromosomes during mitosis (
see publication
). For further information about the lab see the
lab-homepage
.
For most of my time there, I received a fellowship ("Forschungstipendium")
from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the central German research funding
agency (DFG-site English
- Deutsch
).
If you wonder where Urbana is, look for the red star in the middle of
this.
From May 1996 to January 1998 I was a Post-doc in the
group of Renato Paro
at the ZMBH
, University of Heidelberg
from May 1996 until January 1998. There, I worked on the distribution
of Polycomb-GFP fusion proteins in Drosophila cell nuclei. I put some of
the data online
, including movies of developing Drosophila embryos and high resolution
scans of individual cells. You also can find more information about this work
on the web page of the Paro
lab
.
Organization of Interphase Chromosomes
As Diploma- and as Ph.D. student I was in the group of Thomas Cremer at
the Institute of Human Genetics at the
University of Heidelberg
. I worked on the arrangement of chromosomes in the interphase nucleus
of human cells, with special regard on female X-chromosomes. See my
publication list
for details. During this time I closely collaborated with Roland Eils
who developed the required image processing and image analysis tools. Some
of the resulting
images
can be seen at
his Web site
. Unfortunately the Faculty of Biology of the University of Heidelberg
refused the permission to write my thesis in English, therefore it is in
German and thus I didn't put it online.
Publication list
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