Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Salim Seyfried

Professional experience

W3-Professorship | Potsdam University

October 2014 – present

Head of Department for Animal Physiology

Zebrafish Cardiovascular Developmental Genetics

Heisenberg-Professorship | Hannover Medical School

August 2013 – October 2014

Zebrafish Cardiovascular Developmental Genetics

DFG Heisenberg Fellowship 2010-2013

Junior Group Leader | Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin

January 2002 - 2013

Developmental Genetics, Cell Biology, Functional Analysis of zebrafish mutants with defective cardiac morphogenesis

Education/ Training

Humboldt University Berlin

Habilitation "Cell Biology", 2010

UC San Francisco

Howard Hughes Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Yuh Nung Jan, 1997-2001

Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried

Max-Planck Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Prof. Ralf Schnabel, 1997

Harvard Medical School, Boston

Ph.D. student with Prof. Wolfgang Driever, 1993-1996

Eberhard-Karls University, Tübingen

Diploma student, Developmental Genetics, 1990-1993

University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST)

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology program student, 1989-90

Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf

Biology program student, 1987-1989