Katrin Kierdorf
Principal Investigator
Institute of Neuropathology
Medical Faculty, University of Freiburg
Breisacher Straße 64
79106 Freiburg
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- katrin.kierdorf@uniklinik-freiburg.de
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Current position
Academic training
| 2004 – 2008 | Diploma Studies in Molecular Biomedicine, University of Bonn, Academic degree: Diploma in Molecular Biomedicine (Dipl. Mol. Biomed.) |
Advanced academic qualifications
| 2013 | Doctorate, Doctor rerum naturalium (Dr. rer. nat.), summa cum laude |
Postgraduate positions
| Since 2017 | Juniorprofessor for Neuroimmunology, Institute of Neuropathology, Medical Faculty, University of Freiburg |
| 2015 - 2017 | Research Associate at the MRC Centre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection, Imperial College London, United Kingdom |
| 2013 - 2015 | Research Associate at the Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology of Inflammation, King’s College London, United Kingdom |
| 2013 | Research Associate at the Institute of Neuropathology, Medical Center University of Freiburg |
| 2008 - 2013 | PhD student at the Institute of Neuropathology, University of Freiburg |
Miscellaneous (Honors, Awards)
| 2014 - 2016 | Postdoctoral Fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG) |
| 2014 | Award of the Society „Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Immunologie in Freiburg und zum Andenken an Georges Köhler e. V.“ |
| 2013 | Herbert-Fischer-Award of the German Society of Immunology (Dgfi) |
Publications listed in PubMed®
Publications (based on CRC1479 funding)
Petry P, Oschwald A, Kierdorf K. Microglial tissue surveillance: The never-resting gardener in the developing and adult CNS. Eur J Immunol. 2023 Jul;53(7):e2250232. doi: 10.1002/eji.202250232. Epub 2023 May 5.
Mass E, Nimmerjahn F, Kierdorf K, Schlitzer A. Tissue-specific macrophages: how they develop and choreograph tissue biology. Nat Rev Immunol. 2023 Mar 15:1–17. doi: 10.1038/s41577-023-00848-y. Epub ahead of print.
Aktories P, Petry P, Glatz P, Andrieux G, Oschwald A, Botterer H, Gorka O, Erny D, Boerries M, Henneke P, Groß O, Prinz M, Kierdorf K. An improved organotypic cell culture system to study tissue-resident macrophages ex vivo. Cell Rep Methods. 2022 Jul 26;2(8):100260. doi: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2022.100260.
Bosch LFP, Kierdorf K. The Shape of μ-How Morphological Analyses Shape the Study of Microglia. Front Cell Neurosci. 2022 Jun 29;16:942462. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2022.942462.
Aktories P, Petry P, Kierdorf K. Microglia in a Dish-Which Techniques Are on the Menu for Functional Studies? Front Cell Neurosci. 2022 Jun 3;16:908315. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2022.908315.
Masuda T, Amann L, Monaco G, Sankowski R, Staszewski O, Krueger M, Del Gaudio F, He L, Paterson N, Nent E, Fernández-Klett F, Yamasaki A, Frosch M, Fliegauf M, Bosch LFP, Ulupinar H, Hagemeyer N, Schreiner D, Dorrier C, Tsuda M, Grothe C, Joutel A, Daneman R, Betsholtz C, Lendahl U, Knobeloch KP, Lämmermann T, Priller J, Kierdorf K, Prinz M. Specification of CNS macrophage subsets occurs postnatally in defined niches. Nature. 2022 Apr;604(7907):740-748. doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04596-2. Epub 2022 Apr 20. Erratum in: Nature. 2022 Oct;610(7930):E1.
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