Bernd Fakler

Prof. Dr. med.
Principal Investigator

Institute of Physiology II
University of Freiburg
Hermann-Herder-Str. 7
79104 Freiburg

Current Position

Professor, Institute of Physiology II

Academic Education

1992 Medical School and Study of physics at the University of Ulm, MD at the University of Ulm (summa cum laude)

Advanced Qualifications

1998 Sabbatical at the Vollum Institute, OHSU, Portland, OR, USA
1998 C2-Professor at the Institute of Physiology, University of Tübingen
1997 Habilitation (Venia legendi)
1996 - 1997 Research assistant at the Institute of Physiology, University of Tübingen
1993 - 1996 Postdoctoral Fellow, Section of Sensory Biophysics, University of Tübingen

Postgraduate Positions

2019 Coordinator of Research Area A of the cluster of Excellence (EXC2189) “Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies (CIBBS)“, University of Freiburg
2007 - 2018 Coordinator of the SFB 746 “Functional specificity by coupling and modification of proteins”, University of Freiburg
2007 - 2018 Coordinator of Research Area A of the Cluster of Excellence (EXC294) “Center of Biological Signalling Studies (BIOSS)”, University of Freiburg
2001 - present Full Professor (C4) at the Institute of Physiology II, University of Freiburg

Link to all publications of Bernd Fakler: PubMed

Publications on CRC 1453 funding

Horten P, Song K, Garlich J, …, Fakler B, van der Laan M, Becker T, Stuart RA, Pfanner N, Rampelt H. Identification of MIMAS, a multifunctional mega-assembly integrating metabolic and respiratory biogenesis factors of mitochondria. Cell Rep (2024). Busto JV, Ganesan I, Mathar H, Steiert C, Schneider EF, …, Fakler B, Becker T, Wiedemann N. Role of the small protein Mco6 in the mitochondrial sorting and assembly machinery. Cell Rep (2024). Becker F, Fuchs S, Refisch L, Drepper F, Bildl W, …, Fakler B, Mymrikov EV, Hunte C. Conformational regulation and target-myristoyl switch of calcineurin B homologous protein 3. Elife (2023). Kocylowski MK, Aypek H, Bildl W, Helmstädter M, Trachte P, …, Köttgen A, …, Huber TB, Fakler B, Grahammer F. A slit-diaphragm-associated protein network for dynamic control of renal filtration. Nat Commun (2022).