2020
Sabine Strahl (Center for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University) - "O-Mannosylation: an essential protein modification conserved from yeast to humans"
Henner Farin (Institute for Tumor Biology, Georg Speyer Haus, University of Frankfurt) - "Organoid models for Colon Cancer progression and phenotypic dependence on the stromal context"
2019
Monilola Olayioye (Institute of Immunology and Cell Biology, University of Stuttgart) - "The YIN & YANG of Rho Signaling in Tumor Progression"
Krishnaraj Rajalingam (University Medical Center, Mainz and IMCB, A*STAR Singapore) – "Precision medicine in Thyroid Cancers and Targeting RAS"
Klaus-Peter Janssen (Department of Surgery, TU München) - "Colorectal cancer: from immune modulation to metastatic signaling pathways"
2018
Igor Kovacevic (VU University Medical Center Amsterdam) - "Cullin-RING ubiquitin ligases in regulation of endothelial permeability"
Bernd Lepenies (Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover) - "The role of C-type lectin receptors during infections – from glycan arrays to murine studies"
Petra Knaus (Institut für Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin) - "Interplay of TGFb/BMP signalling and mechanotransduction in vascular diseases"
Harold Cremer (Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille) - "Adult neurogenesis in the olfactory bulb: From stem cell determination to synaptic integration"
2017
Peter Walentek (University of California, Berkeley) - "Making a multi-ciliated cell: from integrated regulation of gene expression to the assembly of basal bodies and cilia"
Rastislav Horos (EMBL Heidelberg) - "The small non-coding vault RNA-1 acts as a riboregulator of autophagy"
2016
Athanassia Sotiropoulos (University Paris Descartes) - "Role of Srf transcription factor in the control of skeletal muscle mass and homeostasis"
Nikolaus Pfanner (Freiburg University) - "Mitochondrial machineries for import and assembly of proteins"
Susanne Mühlich (LMU University Munich) - "Interaction with Filamin A provides a new mechanism for regulation of the transcriptional coactivator MRTF-A"
Tilman Grune (German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke) - "Degradation of oxidized proteins - proteasome and chaperone interaction"
Martin Scheffner (University of Konstanz) - "The ubiquitin ligase E6AP and its role in human disease"
2015
Robert Nitsch (University of Mainz) - "Bioactive lipid signaling at central synapses: A role for cortical information processing"
Jens Waschke (LMU Munich) - "Desmogleins integrate signaling to regulate cell cohesion and function"
Thomas Brabletz (University of Erlangen) - "Metastasis: EMT, microRNAs and cancer stem cells"
Thomas Braun (Max Planck Institute of Heart & Lung Research, Bad Nauheim) - "The role of dedifferentiated cardiomyocytes in the diseased myocardium"
Sören Lienkamp (Freiburg University Clinic) - "Renal Tubulogenesis and Kidney Disease Modelling in Xenopus"
2014
Alfred Nordheim (Tübingen University) - "SRF and MRTF: Linking actin dynamics and gene control in endothelial cells"
Rita Gerardy-Schahn (Hannover Medical School) - "(Poly)Sialoglycotopes in organ development"
Hans-Ulrich Demuth (Fraunhofer Institute of Cell Therapy and Immunology (IZI), Halle) - "The common molecular denominator linking the Metabolic Syndrome to Neurodegeneration"
Michael Kühl (Ulm University) - "Wnt signaling during vertebrate organogenesis"
Gerhard Christofori (University of Basel) - "Transcriptional control of EMT and cancer metastasis"
Theresia Stradal (Helmholtz Center Braunschweig) - "Cytoskeletal rearrangements during infection and pathogen defense"
Stefan Höning (University of Cologne) - "Mechanisms of cargo selection during clathrin-mediated endocytosis"
2013
Michael Kessels (University of Jena) - "Cortical Actin dynamics in shaping neuronal cells"
Christian Bökel (TU Dresden) - "Seeing is Believing - Dissecting BMP and Hh signal transduction"
