Lénárt, Peter, Dr.

Research Group Leader and Head of Live-cell Imaging Facility at the MPI-NAT

1995-2000 Diploma in Biology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
2000-2005 PhD Student, Laboratory of Jan Ellenberg, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
2005-2008 Postdoctoral fellow, Laboratory of Jan-Michael Peters, Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria
2008-2011 Staff Scientist, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
2011-2018 Group Leader, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
since 2018 Research Group Leader and Head of Live-cell Imaging Facility, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany

Major Research Interests

Cytoskeletal dynamics during cell division.
how cytoskeletal systems adapted to divide the large oocyte in the specialized and highly asymmetric meiotic divisions.
novel functions of the actin cytoskeleton in chromosome transport and nuclear envelope breakdown.
other mechanisms of oocyte meiosis, critical for reproduction of animal species.