Curriculum

• since 04/2010: academic staff at Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rostock
• since 04/2010: head of Molecular Biology, NeuroProof GmbH, Rostock-Warnemünde, Germany
• 06/2010: Dr. rer. nat (PhD) on "Spatio-temporal control of Wnt/β-catenin signaling during fate commitment of human neural progenitor cells" University of Rostock, Germany
• 01/2007-03/2010: PhD student, Research Training Group (DFG-Graduiertenkolleg) Diem-Osiris
• 05-07/2009 & 03/2010: research visit: Karolinska Institute, Molecular Neurobiology, MBB, Stockholm, Sweden
• 08-12/2006: scientific assistant, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rostock
• 08/2006: Diploma in Biology, Diploma thesis: "Die Beteiligung des Motorproteins Myosin-Va an der Organellen-Positionierung in dendritischen Dornen primärer Neurone" (The role of Myosin-Va in organelle positioning in dendritic spines of primary cortical neurons in vitro)

Publications

• Bader, BM, Arenas, E, and Weiss, D (2009). Quantitative image cytometry: nuclear beta-catenin shuttling during differentiation of human and mouse midbrain progenitor cells
  Martin Schlegel, Elmar Endl, S. M. C. S. (ed.); Abstract book: "19th Annual Conference of the German Society for Cytometry", DGfZ, 2009, p18
• Benjamin M. Bader, Dieter G. Weiss (2009). Nuclear beta-catenin import during differentiation of neural midbrain progenitor cells
  Poster, Arolla, Switzerland, Proceedings of "EMBO Workshop: Wnt Signaling in Development and Disease" August 26-29.
• Bader, BM, Redlich, B, and Weiss, D (2008). Neuronal progenitor cell fate: following Wnt-pathway components during glial and neuronal differentiation
  Poster, Berlin, Proceedings of 5th international stem cell school on regenerative medicine.
• Schmitz, Y, Bader, BM, Weiss, DG, Wolkenhauer, O and Rateitschak, K (2008). Elucidating the role of nucleo-cytoplasmic shuttling of ß-catenin antagonists by mathematical modelling,
  Poster, Tenerife, Spain, "Summer School on Systems Biology for Medical Applications", September 30-October 2.
• Bader, BM, Weiss, DG (2008). Signal protein translocation in differentiating human neural progenitor cells: 3D image quantification for a systems biology approach
  In: Cytometry Part B: Clinical Cytometry, vol. 74B, pp. 383, DGfZ, Wiley InterScience. DGfZ-ESCCA joint abstracts from The 18th Annual Meeting of The German Society of Cytometry (DGfZ) and The 8th Euroconference of Clinical Cell Analysis by The European Society for Clinical Cell Analysis (ESCCA), WTC Bremen, DOI: 10.1002/cyto.b.20462.
• Bader, BM, Schmitz, Y, Redlich, B, Rateitschak, K, Wolkenhauer, O, and Weiss, DG (2008). Quantitative 3D image analysis to study the beta-catenin translocation during differentiation of human neural progenitor cells
  Dresden, Germany, Proceedings of "2nd International Congress on Stem Cells and Tissue Formation" July 6-9.
• Bader, BM, and Weiss, D (2008). A study of protein translocation during differentiation of human neural progenitor cells: Quantitative data generation from confocal 3D images for a systems biology approach
  Budapest, Hungary, Proceedings of ISAC XXIV International Congress 2008 - Cytometry in the Age of Systems Biology - (International Society for the Advancement of Cytometry).
• Bader, BM, Redlich, B, and Weiss, DG (2008). Quantitative 3D analysis and evaluation of confocal images for the study of translocation of Wnt-signalling molecules in human neural progenitor cells
  Marburg/Lahn, Germany, "German Society for Cell Biology - Annual Meeting 2008", published in European Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 87S1, Suppl. 58, p 18, ISSN 0171-9335.
• Jaeger, A, Klum, S, Bader, BM, Weiss, DG, and Kriehuber, R (2008). Expression profile of apoptosis-related genes during differentiation in the human neuronal progenitor cell line VM197
  Marburg/Lahn, Germany, "German Society for Cell Biology - Annual Meeting 2008", March 12 to March 15, European Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 87S1, Suppl. 58, p 18, ISSN 0171-9335.
• Bader, BM, Mazemondet, O, Hübner, R, Redlich, B, Mix, E, Rolfs, A, and Weiss, DG (2008). Beta-catenin translocation influences early differentiation of human neural progenitor cells
  Keystone, CO, USA, Proceedings of Keystone Symposium on Wnt/beta-Catenin Signaling in Development and Disease.
• Bader, BM and Weiss, D (2007). Lipofection of GFP-fusion-proteins as a tool to investigate the dynamics and plasticity of dendritic spines in primary mouse frontal cortex cultures
  Hamburg, Molecular pathways in health and disease of the nervous system.
• Bader, BM, Mazemondet, O, Rolfs, A, and Weiss, D (2007). Characterizing the Wnt-pathway components and their subcellular localization in differentiating human neural progenitor cells
  Hamburg, Molecular pathways in health and disease of the nervous system.
• Bader, BM and Weiss, DG (2007). Canonical Wnt-Pathway and Cytoskeleton in Human Neural Progenitor Cells (ReNcell VM)
  Hamburg, Germany, Proceedings in "GBM Fall Meeting 2007".
• Bader, BM, Mazemondet, O, Rolfs, A, and Weiss, DG (2007). Wnt-pathway in differentiating human neural progenitor cells (ReNcell VM)
  MDC, Berlin, Germany, Proceedings of "Wnt Signaling in Development and Disease" .
• Bader, BM and Weiss, DG (2007). The role of Wnt-pathway mediated changes in the cytoskeleton-motor-enzyme-system upon differentiation of neural progenitor cells.
  Dagstuhl "Zehn plus eins" 2007 (event 07232), June 3rd-7th 2007, Dagstuhl-Band, p. 161-162; Book, Aachen: Verlag Mainz, 2007.-II, 208 S., ISBN: 3-86130-882-7. .
• Mazemondet, O, Bader, BM, Rolfs, A, and Weiss, DG (2007). Wnt-pathway in differentiating human neural progenitor cells
  Proceedings of "Spring School for Regenerative Medicine", Oslo, Norway.
• Bader, BM (2006). "Die Beteiligung des Motorproteins Myosin-Va an der Organellen-Positionierung in dendritischen Dornen primärer Neurone "
  Diploma Thesis, University Library University of Rostock.

Talks

• annual meeting of German Society for Cytometry (DGfZ) 2009-10-16 in Leipzig, Germany, oral presentation chosen from abstracts "Quantitative image cytometry: nuclear beta-catenin shuttling during differentiation of human and mouse midbrain progenitor cells"
• research seminar talk on 2009-10-01 at Lomonossow University, faculty for biology, Moscow, Russia "Quantitative image cytometry: cytosolic/nuclear protein shuttling during differentiation of human and mouse midbrain progenitor cells"
• seminar series BATS'4 of graduate school dIEMoSiRiS on 2009-09-23 in Rostock, Germany "Signal protein translocation in differentiating human neural progenitor cells in vitro and embryonic midbrain progenitor cells in vivo"
• research seminar talk on 2009-05-13 at MBB, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden "Signal protein translocation in differentiating human neural progenitor cells in vitro and embryonic midbrain progenitor cells in vivo"
• dIEMoSiRiS-workshop on 2009-03-11 in Warnemünde, Hotel Hübner, Germany "Signal protein translocation in differentiating human neural progenitor cells"
• 5th International Stem Cell School, short oral presentation, 2008-10-21 in Berlin, Germany "Neuronal progenitor cell fate: following Wnt-pathway components during glial and neuronal differentiation"
• annual meeting of German Society for Cytometry (DGfZ) 2008-09-17 in Bremen, Germany, oral presentation chosen from abstracts "Signal protein translocation in differentiating human neural progenitor cells: 3D image quantification for a systems biology approach"
• dIEMoSiRiS seminar on data quality and exchange possibilies on 2008-04-30 in Rostock "Data quality of quantitative image analysis"
• research seminar of Systems Biology Chair Uni Rostock on 2008-12-12, invited talk, Rostock "Quantitative multi-dimensional analyses of confocal cell images"
• dIEMoSiRiS-workshop on 2007-11-26 in Yachthafenresidenz "Hohe Duene", Rostock Warnemünde "Quantitative multi-dimensional analyses of confocal cell images"
• dIEMoSiRiS-workshop on 2007-05-15 in Hotel Stolteraa, Rostock Warnemünde "Wnt-signalling-mediated changes in the cytoskeleton-motorenzym-system"
• Tutorial on confocal laser scanning microscopy, on 2007-03-21, invited talk, Medical Faculty University of Rostock, "relationship between cytoskeleton and differentiation of neuronal progenitor cells - Leica SP2 AOBS – confocal microscopy for quantitative analyses of morphological changes"
• seminar series BATS'4 of graduate school dIEMoSiRiS on 2007-02-07 in Rostock "Experimental Biology / Signal Transduction Pathways and Wnt Signaling"[slides only for registered users]
• seminar series BATS'4 of graduate school dIEMoSiRiS on 2007-01-10 in Rostock "Basics in Cell and Molecular Biology" [slides only for registered users]

References

Membership

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zellbiologie (DGZ) (German Society for Cell Biology)
• Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie e.V. (GBM) (German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
• International Society for Advancement of Cytometry (ISAC)
• Neurowissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (German Society for Neurosciences) (NWG)