Responsibilities
Research Group Leader "Physiological Genomics"
Contact
Institute for Physiology
BioMedical Center - BMC
Großhaderner Str. 9
D-82152 Planegg-Martinsried
Room:
NC03.009
Phone:
+49 (0)89 / 2180-71899
Fax:
+49 (0)89 / 2180-75216
Email:
stephan.kroeger@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Website:
http://www.genom.physiol.med.uni-muenchen.de/personen/mitarbeiter/kroeger/index.html
Website:
http://www.stephan-kroeger.de/skroeger-englisch/index-e.html
Further Information
Research focus: Cellular and molecular basis of neural development, role of extracellular matrix during nervous system development, nervous system defects in muscular dystrophy, development and function of muscle spindles, the molecular basis of synapse formation at the neuromuscular junction and in the CNS
Key words: Synapse formation, muscle spindle, neuromuscular junction
Selected publications:
Zhang Y., Lin S., Karakatsani A., Rüegg M., Kröger S. (2015) Differential regulation of AChR clustering in the polar and equatorial region of murine muscle spindles. European Journal of Neuroscience 41: 69-78.
Zhang Y., Wesolowska M., Karakatsani A., Wizemann V., Kröger S. (2014) Formation of cholinergic synapse-like specializations at developing murine muscle spindles. Developmental Biology 393: 227-235.
Gasperi C., Melms A., Schoser B., Zhang Y., Meltoranta J., Risson V., Schaeffer L., Schalke B., Kröger S. (2014) Anti-Agrin Autoantibodies in Myasthenia gravis. Neurology 82: 1976-1983.
Porten E., Seliger B., Schneider V.A., Wöll S., Stangel D., Ramseger R., Kröger S. (2010) The process-inducing activity of transmembrane agrin requires follistatin-like domains. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 285: 3114-3125.
Ramseger, R., White, R., Kröger, S. (2009) Transmembrane form agrin-induced process formation requires lipid rafts and the activation of Fyn and MAPK. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 284: 7697-7705.