Prof. Dr. med. Robert Grosse

Qualifications and history

1998	MD, Free University Berlin, Benjamin Franklin Campus
1994-99	Doctoral thesis, Institute of Pharmacology, Free University Berlin
2000	Postdoctoral fellow (EMBO Fellow), London Research Institute (LRI), UK
2004	Emmy Noether Group leader, University of Heidelberg, Medical Faculty
2009	Habilitation and Medical Specialization (Facharzt) in Pharmacology, University of Heidelberg
2009	Full professor and chair, Institute of Pharmacology, University of Marburg, Medical Faculty
2019	Full professor and chair, Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Freiburg, Medical Faculty

Honors and Awards

2023	Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
2016	HFSP (Human Frontiers Science Program) lead investigator of program grant
2013	Binder-Innovation Prize of the German Society of Cell Biology

10 Selected Publications

Krippner S, Winkelmeier J, Knerr J, Brandt DT, Virant D, Schwan C, Endesfelder U, Grosse R (2020) Postmitotic expansion of cell nuclei requires nuclear actin filament bundling by α-actinin 4. EMBO Rep, 21, e50758, 1-11
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Bouhaddou M, Memon D, Meyer B, White KM, Rezelj VV, Correa Marrero M, Polacco BJ, Melnyk JE, Ulferts S, Kaake RM, Batra J, Richards AL, Stevenson E, Gordon DE, Rojc A, Obernier K, Fabius JM, Soucheray M, Miorin L, Moreno E, Koh C, Tran QD, Hardy A, Robinot R, Vallet T, Nilsson-Payant BE, Hernandez-Armenta C, Dunham A, Weigang S, Knerr J, Modak M, Quintero D, Zhou Y, Dugourd A, Valdeolivas A, Patil T, Li Q, Hüttenhain R, Cakir M, Muralidharan M, Kim M, Jang G, Tutuncuoglu B, Hiatt J, Guo JZ, Xu J, Bouhaddou S, Mathy CJP, Gaulton A, Manners EJ, Félix E, Shi Y, Goff M, Lim JK, McBride T, O'Neal MC, Cai Y, Chang JCJ, Broadhurst DJ, Klippsten S, De Wit E, Leach AR, Kortemme T, Shoichet B, Ott M, Saez-Rodriguez J, tenOever BR, Mullins RD, Fischer ER, Kochs G, Grosse R, García-Sastre A, Vignuzzi M, Johnson JR, Shokat KM, Swaney DL, Beltrao P, Krogan NJ (2020) The Global Phosphorylation Landscape of SARS-CoV-2 Infection. Cell, 182, 685-712
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Wang Y, Sherrard A, Zhao B, Melak M, Trautwein J, Kleinschnitz EM, Tsopoulidis N, Fackler OT, Schwan C, Grosse R (2019) GPCR-induced calcium transients trigger nuclear actin assembly for chromatin dynamics. Nat Commun, 10, 5271, 1-9
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Baarlink C, Plessner M, Sherrard A, Morita K, Misu S, Virant D, Kleinschnitz EM, Harniman R, Alibhai D, Baumeister S, Miyamoto K, Endesfelder U, Kaidi A, Grosse R (2017) A transient pool of nuclear F-actin at mitotic exit controls chromatin organization. Nat Cell Biol, 19, 1389-99
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Hinojosa LS, Holst M, Baarlink C, Grosse R (2017) MRTF transcription and Ezrin-dependent plasma membrane blebbing are required for entotic invasion. J Cell Biol, 216, 3087-95
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Grikscheit K, Frank T, Wang Y, Grosse R (2015) Junctional actin assembly is mediated by Formin-like 2 downstream of Rac1. J Cell Biol, 209, 367-76
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Wang Y, Arjonen A, Pouwels J, Ta H, Pausch P, Bange G, Engel U, Pan X, Fackler OT, Ivaska J, Grosse R (2015) Formin-like 2 Promotes β1-Integrin Trafficking and Invasive Motility Downstream of PKCα. Dev Cell, 4, 475-83
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Baarlink C, Wang H, Grosse R (2013) Nuclear actin network assembly by formins regulates the SRF coactivator MAL. Science, 340, 864-7
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Brandt DT, Baarlink C, Kitzing TM, Kremmer E, Ivaska J, Nollau P, Grosse R (2009) SCAI acts as a suppressor of cancer cell invasion through the transcriptional control of β1-integrin. Nat Cell Biol, 11, 557-68
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Kitzing TM, Sahadevan AS, Brandt DT, Knieling H, Hannemann S, Fackler OT, Grosshans J, Grosse R (2007) Positive feedback between Dia1, LARG, and RhoA regulates cell morphology and invasion. Genes Dev, 21, 1478-83
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