Prof. Dr. Ernst Bamberg

Emeritus scientific member

Biophysical Chemistry
+49 69 6303 2000
+49 69 6303-2002

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Ernst Bamberg

Prof. (C4), Dr.,

born 09.11.1940

Director emeritus, Biophysical Chemistry

Max Planck Institute of Biophysics

Max-von-Laue-Strasse 3

D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Phone: +49 - 69 - 6303-2000

Email: ernst.bamberg@biophys.mpg.de

Education and Academic Degrees

1971 Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, University of Basel
1976 Habilitation, University of Konstanz
1983 Group leader, independent research group, Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysics
1988 Adj. Professor, University of Frankfurt
1993 - 2009 Full Professor, Biophysical Chemistry, University of Frankfurt
since 1993 Director, Department of Biophysical Chemistry, Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysics
2016 - 2019 Emeritus with extended status
2017 - 2022 Visiting Professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT)
2019 - Director emeritus

Honors and Awards

1979 Heisenberg fellow
1987 Boris Rajewsky Preis für Biophysik (Frankfurter Biophysik-Preis)
2009 Stifterverbandspreis des Stifterverbands für die Deutsche Wissenschaft
2010 Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences
2010 Karl Heinz Beckurts Preis
2011 Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
2012 International Prize for Translational Neuroscience of the Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation
2013 The Brain Prize of the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation
2019 Rumford Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2019 Clarivate (Web of Science) Citation Laureate in Physiology or Medicine

Selected Publications

Bamberg, E., Tittor, J., & Oesterhelt, D.: Light-driven proton or chloride pumping by halorhodopsin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 90(2), 639-643. (1993). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.90.2.639
Nagel, G., Möckel, B., Büldt, G., & Bamberg, E.: Functional expression of bacteriorhodopsin in oocytes allows direct measurement of voltage dependence of light induced H+ pumping. Febs Letters, 377(2), 263-266. (1995). https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-5793(95)01356-3
Nagel, G., Ollig, D., Fuhrmann, M., Kateriya, S., Mustl, A. M., Bamberg, E., & Hegemann, P.: Channelrhodopsin-1: A light-gated proton channel in green algae. Science, 296(5577), 2395-2398. (2002). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1072068
Nagel, G., Szellas, T., Huhn, W., Kateriya, S., Adeishvili, N., Berthold, P., Ollig, D., Hegemann, P., & Bamberg, E.: Channelrhodopsin-2, a directly light-gated cation-selective membrane channel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 100(24), 13940-13945. (2003). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1936192100
Boyden, E. S., Zhang, F., Bamberg, E., Nagel, G., & Deisseroth, K.: Millisecond-timescale, genetically targeted optical control of neural activity. Nature Neuroscience, 8(9), 1263-1268. (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1525
Nagel, G., Brauner, M., Liewald, J. F., Adeishvili, N., Bamberg, E., & Gottschalk, A.: Light-activation of channelrhodopsin-2 in excitable cells of Caenorhabditis elegans triggers rapid Behavioral responses. Current Biology, 15(24), 2279-2284. (2005). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2005.11.032
Zhang, F., Wang, L. P., Brauner, M., Liewald, J. F., Kay, K., Watzke, N., Wood, P. G., Bamberg, E., Nagel, G., Gottschalk, A., & Deisseroth, K.: Multimodal fast optical interrogation of neural circuitry. Nature, 446(7136), 633-U634. (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05744
Feldbauer, K., Zimmermann, D., Pintschovius, V., Spitz, J., Bamann, C., & Bamberg, E.: Channelrhodopsin-2 is a leaky proton pump. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(30), 12317-12322. (2009). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0905852106
Shevchenko, V., Mager, T., Kovalev, K., Polovinkin, V., Alekseev, A., Juettner, J., Chizhov, I., Bamann, C., Vavourakis, C., Ghai, R., Gushchin, I., Borshchevskiy, V., Rogachev, A., Melnikov, I., Popov, A., Balandin, T., Rodriguez-Valera, F., Manstein, D. J., Bueldt, G., Bamberg, E., & Gordeliy, V.: Inward H+ pump xenorhodopsin: Mechanism and alternative optogenetic approach. Science Advances, 3(9), 10. (2017). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1603187
Volkov, O., Kovalev, K., Polovinkin, V., Borshchevskiy, V., Bamann, C., Astashkin, R., Marin, E., Popov, A., Balandin, T., Willbold, D., Büldt, G., Bamberg, E., & Gordeliy, V.: Structural insights into ion conduction by channelrhodopsin 2. Science, 358(6366), 8. (2017). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aan8862
Mager, T., de la Morena, D. L., Senn, V., Schlotte, J., D’Errico, A., Feldbauer, K., Wrobel, C., Jung, S., Bodensiek, K., Rankovic, V., Browne, L., Huet, A., Jüttner, J., Wood, P. G., Letzkus, J. J., Moser, T., & Bamberg, E.: High frequency neural spiking and auditory signaling by ultrafast red-shifted optogenetics. Nature Communications, 9, 14. (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04146-3