• 1976-1980 Ph.D. protein crystallography (J. N. Jansonius, Biocenter, University of Basel, Switzerland)


• 1981-1984 Postdoctoral training in Developmental Biology (B. M. Alberts, University of California, San Francisco)


• 1985-1989 Assistant Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA


• 1989-1990 Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA


• 1991-1992 Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA


• 1992-1998 Professor of Biochemistry and Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA


• 1998-2006 Director at the Max Planck Institute of Experimental Endocrinology, Dept. of Molecular Embryology, Hanover, Germany


• 2006- Director at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Dept. Genes and Behavior, Goettingen, Germany

Major Research Interests

Dynamic interplay between gene expression, brain development and architecture and behaviour.


Homepage Department/Research Group

http://www.genesandbehavior.org/



Selected Recent Publications

• Zheng, B., Albrecht, U., Kaasik, K., Sage, M., Lu, W., Vaishnav, S., Li, Q., Su, Z. S., Eichele, G., Bradley, A., and Lee, C. C. (2001). Nonredundant roles of the mPer1 and mPer2 genes in the mammalian circadian clock. Cell 105, 683-694



• Carson, J.P., Ju, T., Lu, H.C., Thaller, C., Xu, M., Pallas, S.L., Crair, M.C., Warren, J., Chiu, W. and Eichele, G. (2005). A Digital Atlas to characterize the mouse brain transcriptome. PLoS Comput. Biol. 1, 289-296



• Oster, H., Damerow, S., Kiessling, S., Jakubcakova, V., Abraham, D., Tian, J., Hoffmann, M. W., and Eichele, G. (2006). The circadian rhythm of glucocorticoids is regulated by a gating mechanism residing in the adrenal cortical clock. Cell Metabolism 4,163-173



• Lein, E.S. et al. (2007). Genome-Wide Atlas of Gene Expression in the Adult Mouse Brain. Nature 445, 168-176



• Jakubcakova, V., Oster, H., Tamanini, F., Cadenas, C., Leitges, M., van der Horst, G.T., Eichele, G. (2007). Light entrainment of the mammalian circadian clock by a PRKCA-dependent posttranslational mechanism. Neuron 54:831-43