Peter Walentek

Current Position

Emmy Noether Group Leader

Academic Education

2008 - 2012	Developmental Biology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart (Dr. rer. nat.)
2001 - 2007	Biology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart (Dipl. Biol.)

Advanced Qualifications

2012	Dissertation (Dr. rer. nat.), Developmental Biology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart (advisor Prof. M. Blum)

Postgraduate Positions

2019 - present	Faculty, International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS-IEM), University of Freiburg and Max Planck Institute of Immunology and Epigenetics, Freiburg
2019 - present	Associate Investigator, Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies (CIBBS), University of Freiburg
2019 - present	Principal Investigator, Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine (SGBM), University of Freiburg
2019 - present	Emmy Noether Group Leader, Medical Center & Center for Biological Systems Analysis (ZBSA), University of Freiburg
2016 - 2017	NIH K99 Principal Investigator, Molecular and Cell Biology Department, University of California at Berkeley, USA
2012 - 2016	Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular and Cell Biology Department, University of California at Berkeley, USA

Link to all publications of Peter Walentek: PubMed

Publications on CRC 1453 funding

Gopalakrishnan J, Feistel K, Friedrich BM, Grapin-Botton A, Jurisch-Yaksi N, …, Schmidts M, Walentek P, Wachten D. Emerging principles of primary cilia dynamics in controlling tissue organization and function. EMBO J (2023). Yasunaga T, Wiegel J, Bergen MD, Helmstädter M, Epting D,…, Walentek P, Ulbrich MH, Walz G. Microridge-like structures anchor motile cilia. Nat Commun (2022). Antony D, Gulec Yilmaz E, Gezdirici A, Slagter L, Bakey Z, …, Walentek P, Arnold SJ, Backofen R, Schmidts M. Spectrum of Genetic Variants in a Cohort of 37 Laterality Defect Cases. Front Genet (2022).