Dr. Domenico Azarnia Tehran

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsMolecular Biology and Physiology of Nerve and Glia Cells,Biochemistry
Keywordsneurodegeneration, synaptic vesicles, actin dynamics, endocytosis, neuronal membrane tension
Honours and awards

2017: Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers

2017: Best scientific discovery of the year awarded for: “A Weissella oryzae botulinum-like toxin cleaves VAMP within the juxtamembrane domain” - TOXINS 2017 (INA – International Neurotoxin Association), Madrid, Spain

2017: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence (passing with a score of 85% or more, all stringent Horizon 2020 assessment thresholds for the 3 award criteria required to receive funding)

2015: Travel grant from Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) for attending the 17th European workshop on bacterial protein toxins (ETOX), Braga, Portugal

2014: First poster prize at the ABCD (Italian Association of Cell Biology and Differentiation) national PhD meeting, Pesaro, Italy

2014: Travel grant from ABCD (Italian Association of Cell Biology and Differentiation) for attending the ABCD national PhD meeting, Pesaro, Italy

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityBerlin
InstitutionLeibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP)
InstituteDepartment Molecular Pharmacology and Cell Biology

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Volker HauckeLeibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2017

Program(s)

2017Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2018Azarnia Tehran Domenico, Kuijpers Marijn, Haucke Volker.: Presynaptic endocytic factors in autophagy and neurodegeneration.. In: Current Opinion Neurobiology , 2018, 153-159