Dietmar Spengler

	Dietmar Spengler, Dr. med. Research group leader RG Spengler: Molecular Neuroendocrinology
	Phone:	089/30622-587
	Fax:	089/30622-605
	Email:	spengler[a]mpipsykl.mpg.de
	Interests:	Gene environment interactions, epigenetic imprinting, neuronal stem cell biology
CV: Born 1961 in Wiesbaden. Study of medicine and philosophy at the University of Mainz and Heidelberg. 1986 - 89 Research Assistant in Psychiatry at the University of Marburg and Freiburg and for Human Genetics at the University of Heidelberg. 1990 Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, since 1994 head of a research group "Molecular Neuroendocrinology" at the MPI. 1992 Guest positions at the ZMBH, Heidelberg and 1993 + 1997 at the CNRS/INSERM, Montpellier, France.
Selected publications: Barz T, Hoffmann A, Panhuysen M, Spengler D. (2006) Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma is a Zac target gene mediating Zac antiproliferation. Cancer Res (24):11975-82 Hoffmann A, Ciani E, Boeckardt J, Holsboer F, Journot L, Spengler D. (2003)Transcriptional activities of the zinc finger protein Zac are differentially controlled by DNA binding. Mol Cell Biol. 23(3):988-1003 Spengler D, Villalba M, Hoffmann A, Pantaloni C, Houssami S, Bockaert J, Journot L. (1997) Regulation of apoptosis and cell cycle arrest by Zac1, a novel zinc finger protein expressed in the pituitary gland and the brain. EMBO J. 16(10):2814-25 Spengler D, Waeber C, Pantaloni C, Holsboer F, Bockaert J, Seeburg PH, Journot L. (1993) Differential signal transduction by five splice variants of the PACAP receptor. Nature. 365(6442):170-5

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