Anne C. von Philipsborn, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
DANDRITE- Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience
Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine
Aarhus University
Ole Worms Alle 3, Building 1171
8000 Aarhus C, Denmark

Cell phone: +45 23359252
avp @mb.au.dk
Researcher ID: C-5087-2014
http://dandrite.au.dk/anne-von-philipsborns-research-group/


•EDUCATION

2007 PhD in Biology, (“summa cum laude”, best grade),
Department of Cell and Neurobiology, Faculty for Chemistry and Biological Sciences,
University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Dissertation Title: Axon guidance in substrate-bound protein gradients.
Thesis Advisors: Prof. M. Bastmeyer, University of Karlsruhe
and Prof. F. Bonhoeffer, Max-Planck-Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen

2003 Master/Diploma in Developmental Neurobiology, Faculty for Biology, University of Konstanz, Germany
Thesis Title: Expression of reggie-2 genes and reggie-2 protein during embryonic development of zebrafish
Thesis Advisor: Prof. C. Stuermer, University of Konstanz


•CURRENT POSITION

Jan 2014 –
Group Leader
The Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience (DANDRITE)
Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine
Aarhus University, Denmark


•PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2008 – 2013 Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. B.J. Dickson
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP),
Vienna, Austria

2007 – 2008 Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Prof. M. Bastmeyer,
Department of Cell and Neurobiology, Faculty for Chemistry and Biological Sciences,
University of Karlsruhe, Germany







•FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2014 – DANDRITE group leader grant and prolongation (5+4 years), Lundbeck
Foundation.

2012 – 2014 Stand-alone project (3 years), Austrian Science fund (FWF)
Total budget: EUR 347.000, including personal costs.
(Since the successfully running project could not be transferred from Austria to Denmark, it was ended in January 2014.)

2013 Fellowship for 2 month course “Neural Systems and Behaviour” at Marine Biology Laboratories (MBL), Woods Hole, USA, The Hearst Foundations
2009 – 2010EMBO Long Term Fellowship
2005 – 2007 PhD Scholarship, German National Academic Foundation
(Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)

1998 – 2003 Scholarship for Undergraduate Studies, German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)
Scholarship for Undergraduate Studies from the Federal State of Bavaria, Germany
(Stipendium für besonders Begabte, Freistaat Bayern),
including funding of one year studies at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, USA, from 2001-2002.



•SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

2014 – Supervision of Bachelor, Master, three PhD students and one Postdoc
at The Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience (DANDRITE)
Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine
Aarhus University, Denmark

2008 – 2013 Supervision of two PhD students and one Master student
in the laboratory of Dr. B.J. Dickson
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP),
Vienna, Austria

2005 – 2008 Supervision of two Master students in the laboratory of Prof. M. Bastmeyer,
Department of Cell and Neurobiology, Faculty for Chemistry and Biological Sciences,
University of Karlsruhe, Germany


•TEACHING ACTIVITIES

2014 –
Molecular Embryology: Invertebrate development and Nervous system development in Drosophila, (Lectures and Theoretical Course), Molecular Neurobiology (Lecture and Theoretical Course), Faculty for Molecular Biology, Aarhus University, Denmark
Concepts in the study of Animal Behaviour, Drosophila Behavioural Genetics (Workshops at Summer School “Aspects of Neuroscience” organized by by students of Warsaw University, Poland)

2005 – 2007 Supervision of Laboratory Course in Neurobiology, in the laboratory of Prof. M. Bastmeyer, Department of Cell and Neurobiology, Faculty for Chemistry and Biological Sciences, University of Karlsruhe, Germany


•PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
A. O’Sullivan, T. Lindsay, A. Prudnikova, B. Erdi, M. Dickinson, and A.C. von Philipsborn (2018); Multifunctional Wing Motor Control of Song and Flight. Current Biology, 28 (17): 2705-2717.

A.C. von Philipsborn; Neurobiology of Insect Behaviour. (Book chapter) in: Insect Behaviour, editors: Cordobar-Aguilar, Gonzalez-Tokman and Gonzalez-Santoyo, Oxford University Press 2018.

B.E. Ellendersen and A.C. von Philipsborn (2017); Neuronal modulation of D. melanogaster sexual behaviour. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 24:21-28.

F. Fielderling, M. Weschenfelder, M. Fritz, A. von Philipsborn, M. Bastmeyer and F. Weth (2017); Ephrin-A/EphA specific co-adaptation as a novel mechanism in topographic axon guidance. eLIFE, 6:e25533.

M.N. Verzijden, J.K. Abbott, A.C. von Philipsborn, V. Loeschcke; Male Drosophila melanogaster learn to prefer an arbitrary trait associated with female mating status. Current Zoology 2015, 61 (6): 1036–1042.

A.C. von Philipsborn1,2, S. Jörchel1, L. Tirian, E. Demir, T. Morita, D. L. Stern, B. J. Dickson2; Cellular and Behavioral Functions of fruitless Isoforms in Drosophila Courtship. Current Biology 2014, 24 (3): 242-251. (1shared first authorship, 2shared corresponding authorship)

A.C. von Philipsborn, T. Liu, J.Y. Yu, C. Masser, S.S. Bidaye and B.J. Dickson; Neuronal control of Drosophila courtship song. Neuron 2011, 69(3): 509-522.

E. Seiradake, A.C. von Philipsborn, M. Henry, M. Fritz, H. Lortat-Jacob, M. Jamin, W. Hemrika, M. Bastmeyer, S. Cusak and A.A. McCarthy; Structure and functional relevance of the Slit2 homodimerization domain. EMBO reports 2009, 10(7): 736-741.

S. Lang1, A.C. von Philipsborn1, A. Bernard, F. Bonhoeffer and M. Bastmeyer; Growth cone response to ephrin gradients produced by microfluidic networks. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 2008, 390(3): 809-816. (1shared first authorship)

A.C. von Philipsborn, S. Lang, Z. Jiang, F. Bonhoeffer and M. Bastmeyer; Substrate-bound protein gradients for cell culture fabricated by microfluidic networks and microcontact printing. Science STKE 2007, 414:pI6.

A. von Philipsborn and M. Bastmeyer; Mechanisms of Gradient Detection: A Comparison of Axon Pathfinding with Eukaryotic Cell Migration. International Review of Cytology 2007, 263:1-62.

A.C. von Philipsborn, S. Lang, J. Loeschinger, A. Bernard, C. David, D. Lehnert, M. Bastmeyer and F. Bonhoeffer; Microcontact printing of axon guidance molecules for generation of graded patterns. Nature Protocols 2006, 1:1322-8.

A.C. von Philipsborn, S. Lang, J. Loeschinger, A. Bernard, C. David, D. Lehnert, M. Bastmeyer and F. Bonhoeffer; Growth cone navigation in substrate-bound ephrin gradients. Development 2006, 133:2487-95.

A.C. von Philipsborn , A. Ferrer-Vaquer, E. Rivera-Milla, C.A.O. Stuermer, E. Malaga-Trillo; Restricted expression of reggie genes and proteins during early zebrafish development. Journal of Comparative Neurology 2005, 482:257-72.