Henrik Oster

Ph.D., Junior Group Leader (Emmy Noether Program)
Circadian Rhythms Group

• since 2007 Group leader and faculty member at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany

• 2006-07 Post-doc at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, UK

• 2002-06 Post-doc at the Max Planck Institute of Experimental Endocrinology Hannover, Germany

• 2002 PhD at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

• 1999 Diploma in Biochemistry at the University of Hannover, Germany

Major Research Interests:

Henrik Oster

Molecular mechanisms of circadian timekeeping, physiological and behavioural circadian rhythms, mouse genetics, clock disease interaction

Address:
Dept. Genes and Behaviour
MPI for Biophysical Chemistry
Am Fassberg 11
37077 Göttingen
Germany

phone: +49-551-201 2738
fax: +49-551-201 2705
e-mail:

Further Information:
Circadian Rhythms Group

Selected Recent Publications:

Lupi D*, Oster H*, Thompson S, Foster RG (2008) The acute light-induction of sleep is mediated by OPN4-based photoreception. Nat Neurosci. 11:1068-73

Peirson SN*, Oster H*, Jones SL, Leitges M, Hankins MW, Foster RG (2007) Microarray analysis and functional genomics identify novel components of melanopsin signaling. Curr Biol. 17(16):1363-72

Oster H, Damerow S, Kiessling S, Jakubcakova V, Abraham D, Tian J, Hoffmann MW, Eichele G (2006) The circadian rhythm of glucocorticoids is regulated by a gating mechanism residing in the adrenal cortical clock. Cell Metab. 4(2):163-73

Oster H, Leitges M (2006) Protein kinase C alpha but not PKCzeta suppresses intestinal tumor formation in ApcMin/+ mice. Cancer Res. 66(14):6955-63

Oster H, Baeriswyl S, van der Horst GT, Albrecht U (2003) Loss of circadian rhythmicity in aging mPer1-/-mCry2-/- mutant mice. Genes Dev. 17(11):1366-79

*: equal contribution