Prof. Dr. Michael Hollmann

1998: Habilitation in Biochemistry at the Medical Faculty of the University of Göttingen
Title of habilitation thesis: “Molecular structure, function, and modulation of ionotropic glutamate receptors”
1988: University of Tübingen, Faculty of Biology: Ph.D. in Life Sciences (“Dr. rer. nat.”)
1984 to 1988: Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen; Department of Neurobiology (Chairman: Prof. Dr. Otto D. Creutzfeldt). PhD thesis: “Biochemical investigation of glutamate receptors in rat brain”, advisor Dr. Wilfried Seifert, Laboratory for Molecular Neurobiology
1984: Diploma (= M.Sc.) in Biochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Tübingen
1983 to 1984: Friedrich-Miescher Laboratory of the Max-Planck Society, Tübingen. Diploma thesis: “Isolation and characterization of the antigens of two monoclonal antibodies, raised against circulating human tumor-associated components”, advisor Prof. Dr. F. Alfred Anderer
1982 to 1983: University of Tübingen: Studies in Biochemistry (M.Sc. studies)
1981 to 1982: Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, near Munich: lab rotations
1977 to 1981: University of Tübingen: Studies in Biochemistry (B.Sc. studies)

1999 to present: C4 Professor and Chair of the Department of Biochemistry I - Receptor Biochemistry, Faculty for Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ruhr-University Bochum
1998 to 1999: Senior Scientist and head of the glutamate receptor laboratory, Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany
1994 to 1998: Heisenberg fellow and head of the glutamate receptor laboratory, Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany.
1991 to 1994: Senior Research Associate, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
1988 to 1991: Post-doctoral fellow with Stephen Heinemann, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA

2001 to present: Faculty member of the “International Graduate School for Neurosciences” (IGSN) at the Ruhr University Bochum
2001 to: Member and deputy speaker of the graduate program (“Graduiertenkolleg”) “Development and Plasticity of the Nervous Sysytem: Molecular, Synaptic and Cellular Mechanisms”
1998 to 2000: Project grant B4 “Molecular basis of glutamatergic synaptic transmission” within SFB 406, “Synaptic interactions within neuronal networks”. Second granting period
1998 to 2000: Project grant from the German-Israeli Foundation (GIF), for a collaborative project with Prof. Vivian Teichberg, The Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel (G 179-202.08/96)
1996 to 1997: Grant from the Starke-Werner-Fond of the Max Planck Society
1996 to 1998: Grant within the Heisenberg program of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
1995 to 1998: Associate member of the graduate program (“Graduiertenkolleg”) “Organization and dynamics in neuronal networks”
1995 to 1997: Project grant B4 “Molecular basis of glutamatergic synaptic transmission” within SFB 406, “Synaptic interactions within neuronal networks&rdquo1;
1994 to 1996: Grant within the Heisenberg program of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

1999: United States Patent #5,945,509.
“Glutamate Receptor Compositions and Methods”
1999: United States Patent #486,277.
“Glutamate Receptor Compositions and Methods”
1998: United States Patent #5,729,291.
“Glutamate Receptor Antibodies”
1993: United States Patent #5,202,257.
“Isolated Nucleic Acids Encoding Glutamate Receptor Protein”

1998: Habilitation prize 1998 of the “Association of Friends and Patrons of the Medical Faculty of the Georg-August University Göttingen” (“Verein der Freunde und Förderer der Medizinischen Fakultät der Georg-August Universität Göttingen”)

Biochemistry I - Receptor biochemistry