Project 2 - Sebastian Bachmann
   
Date of Birth: 15 June 1950
Nationality: German
   
EDUCATION:
 
1970-1978 Biology at the University of Kiel (1970-1972), and University of Salzburg (1972-1978)
1979 Doctorate: Biology (24.1.1979)
Dissertation: „Die Feinstruktur des Axialkomplexes beim Seeigel (Sphaerechinus granularis)“

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
 
1/1979-5/1980 Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Zoology, University of Salzburg
1.6.1980 Assistant master at the Department of Anatomy and Zoology, University of Heidelberg, Head: Prof. Dr. W. Kriz
1987 Postdoctoral research stay at the Necker Children Hospital, Paris, Department of Nephrology, INSERM; Head: Dr. Lise Bankir
From automn 1987-1995 Habilitation (Ph.D. thesis) in the Department of Anatomy in Heidelberg, Head: Prof. Dr. W. Kriz, as an assistant professor; activities in student’s education and research
1.8.1995
Professor (tenure) C3 for Anatomy and Cell Biology at the Department of Anatomy of the Humboldt University, Charité, Berlin, Germany
6.1998
Full professor and chairman of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the Department of Anatomy of the Humboldt University, Charité, Berlin, Germany
RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Kidney-oriented research in Anatomy and Cell Biology.
Main subjects: animal experiments, animal models, hypertension, mediators, juxtaglomerular apparatus, tubular transport



TOP TEN PUBLICATIONS:

 
1.
Theilig F, Câmpean V, Paliege A, Breyer M, Briggs JP, Schnermann J, Bachmann S: Epithelial COX-2 expression is not regulated by NO: Colocalization studies in rat and mouse renal cortex. Hypertension 39: 848-853, 2002
2.
Schmitt R, Ellison DH, Klussmann E, Bachmann S: Renal expression of sodium transporters and aquaporin-2 in hypothyroid rats. Am J Physiol 284: F1097-F1104, 2003
3.
Câmpean V, Theilig F, Paliege A, Breyer M, Bachmann S: Key enzymes for renal prostaglandin synthesis: site-specific expression in rodent kidney (rat, mouse). Am J Physiol 285: F19-F32, 2003
4.
Bachmann S, Schlichting U, Geist B, Mutig K, Petsch T, Bacic D, Wagner CA, Kaissling B, Biber J, Murer H, Willnow T: Kidney-specific inactivation of the megalin gene impairs trafficking of renal inorganic sodium phosphate-cotransporter (NaPi-IIa). J Am Soc Nephrol 15(4):892-900, 2004
5.
Henn V, Edemir B, Stefan E, Wiesner B, Lorenz D, Theilig F, Schmitt R, Vossebein L, Tamma G, Beyermann M, Krause E, Herberg FW, Valenti G, Bachmann S, Rosenthal W, Klussmann E: Identification of a novel A-kinase anchoring protein 18 isoform and evidence for its role in the vasopressin-induced aquaporin-2 shuttle in renal principal cells. J Biol Chem 279(25):26654-26665, 2004
6.
Paliege A, Mizel D, Medina C, Pasumarthy A, Huang YG, Bachmann S, Briggs JP, Schnermann JB, Yang T: Inhibition of nNOS expression in the macula densa by COX-2 derived prostaglandin E2. Am J Physiol 287:F152-F159, 2004
7.
Jürgensen JS, Rosenberger C, Wiesener MS, Warnecke C, Hörstrup JH,
Gräfe M, Philipp S, Griethe W, Maxwell PH, Frei U, MD; Bachmann S, Willenbrock R, Eckardt KU: Persistent induction of HIF-1alpha and -2alpha in cardiomyocytes and stromal cellsof ischemic myocardium. FASEB J 18(12): 1415-1417, 2004
8.
Rosenberger C, Heyman SN, Rosen S, Shina A, Goldfarb M, Griethe W, Frei U, Reinke P. Bachmann S, Eckardt KU: Upregulation of HIF in experimental acute renal failure – evidence for a protective transcriptional response to hypoxia. Kidney Int 67: 531-542, 2005

9.
Bachmann S, Mutig K, Bates J, Welker P, Gross V, Luft FC, Alenina N, Bader M, Thiele BJ, Prasadan K, Raffi HS, Kumar S: Renal effects of Tamm Horsfall protein (uromodulin) deficiency in mice. Am J Physiol 288(3): F559-F567, 2005
10.
Paliege A, Parsumathy A, Mizel D, Yang T, Schnermann J, Bachmann S: Effect of apocynin treatment on renal expression of COX-2, NOS1, and renin in Wistar-Kyoto and spontaneously hypertensive rats. Am J Physiol 290: 2006 , in press


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