Jörg Vogel

Jörg Vogel
Born (1967-04-01) 1 April 1967
Cottbus, Germany
Residence Würzburg, Germany
Nationality German
Citizenship German
Awards VAAM Research award, DGHM Senior Scientist Award, Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Preis
Scientific career
Fields RNA biology
Institutions IMIB
Doctoral advisor Thomas Börner, Wolfgang Hess

Jörg Vogel (born 1 April 1967 in Cottbus, Germany) is a German scientist in the field of RNA biology.[1] He holds a position as full professor, chairs the Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB) at the University of Würzburg, Germany, and is a founding Helmholtz-Institute director. Vogel studied biochemistry at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Imperial College London.[2] After his PhD work (1996 – 1999) he performed postdoctoral research at the Uppsala University, Sweden and was an EMBO fellow at the Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel. From 2004 to 2009 he was a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology. Since 2009 he is a full professor at the IMIB and head of the institute as successor to Jörg Hacker.[3] Furthermore, he is founding director of the Helmholtz-Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in Würzburg that will be established in 2017.[4]

Vogel's current activities cover the fields of small regulatory RNAs in bacteria, RNA sequencing, RNA localization as well as microRNAs and long non-coding RNAs in infected eukaryotic hosts. Jörg Vogel has contributed to over 100 research publications including many articles in high impact journals like Nature, PNAS and EMBO Journal. Among other achievements he pioneered the application of RNA-Seq for the analysis of the bacterial transcription, CRISPR RNA maturation and host-pathogen interactions.[5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

Jörg Vogel received the VAAM Research award (2010) and the DGHM Senior Scientist Award (2011).[10] In 2011 he was honored for his outstanding research and became an EMBO member.[11] In 2013 Vogel was elected to the American Academy of Microbiology [12] and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.[13] Thomson Reuters included Jörg Vogel in the list of 2015 Highly Cited Researchers.[14] Starting from January 2016 to January 2019 he is a Visiting Professor at the Imperial College London in the Division of Infectious Diseases.[15] Furthermore, Vogel was one of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners 2017.[16]

References

  1. ↑ Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste - Klasse für Naturwissenschaften und Medizin, 541. Sitzung (German)
  2. ↑ Academic career page of Jörg Vogel
  3. ↑ Press release of the University of Würzburg (German)
  4. ↑ Press release "Würzburg to accommodate new Helmholtz Institute"
  5. ↑ Sharma, C. M.; Hoffmann, S.; Darfeuille, F.; Reignier, J. R. M.; Findeiss, S.; Sittka, A.; Chabas, S.; Reiche, K.; Hackermüller, J. R.; Reinhardt, R.; Stadler, P. F.; Vogel, J. R. (2010). "The primary transcriptome of the major human pathogen Helicobacter pylori". Nature. 464 (7286): 250–255. doi:10.1038/nature08756. PMID 20164839.
  6. ↑ Deltcheva, E.; Chylinski, K.; Sharma, C. M.; Gonzales, K.; Chao, Y.; Pirzada, Z. A.; Eckert, M. R.; Vogel, J.; Charpentier, E. (2011). "CRISPR RNA maturation by trans-encoded small RNA and host factor RNase III". Nature. 471 (7340): 602–607. doi:10.1038/nature09886. PMC 3070239. PMID 21455174.
  7. ↑ Lander, E. S. (2016). "The Heroes of CRISPR". Cell. 164 (1–2): 18–28. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2015.12.041. PMID 26771483.
  8. ↑ Westermann, A. W.; Förstner, K. U.; Amman, F.; Barquist, L.; Chao, Y.; Schulte, L. N.; Müller, L.; Reinhardt, R.; Stadler, P. F.; Vogel, J. (2016). "Dual RNA-seq unveils noncoding RNA functions in host–pathogen interactions". Nature. 529 (7587): 496–501. doi:10.1038/nature16547. PMID 26789254.
  9. ↑ Smirnov, A.; Förstner, K. U.; Holmqvist, E.; Otto, A.; Günster, F.; Becher, D.; Reinhardt, R.; Vogel, J. (2016). "Grad-seq guides the discovery of ProQ as a major small RNA-binding protein". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 113 (41): 11591–11596. doi:10.1073/pnas.1609981113. PMC 5068311. PMID 27671629.
  10. ↑ DGHM - Verleihung der DGHM-Preise 2011
  11. ↑ EMBO press release "46 outstanding life scientists elected to EMBO membership"
  12. ↑ AAM members elected in 2013 Archived 2016-04-13 at the Wayback Machine.
  13. ↑ Jörg Vogel's Leopoldina member page
  14. ↑ University of Würzburg Press release - University researchers highly cited worldwide
  15. ↑ University of Würzburg einBlick "Personalia vom 26.01.2016" (German)
  16. ↑ Leibniz-Preise 2017: DFG zeichnet drei Wissenschaftlerinnen und sieben Wissenschaftler aus (German)
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