Rolf Bodmer, PhD - Sanford Burnham Prebys

Rolf Bodmer earned his PhD in Biochemistry and Neurobiology from the University of Basel, Switzerland, in 1983. Dr. Bodmer trained as a postdoctoral fellow in Neurobiology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and also studied Molecular Genetics at the University of California, San Francisco. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Biology in 1990 at the University of Michigan. There, he was promoted to Associate Professor of Biology in 1996, and then appointed to Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology in 2001. Dr. Bodmer joined Sanford Burnham Prebys in 2003, where he is Professor and Program Director of the Development, Aging, and Regeneration Program.

Other Appointments

Adjunct professor, University of California, San Diego

Funding Awards and Collaborative Grants

1 P01 AG033561 “Genetic Analysis of Drosophila Functional Aging”

Honors and Recognition

Ellison Foundation Senior Scholar Award

Select Publications

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A global in vivo Drosophila RNAi screen identifies NOT3 as a conserved regulator of heart function.

Neely GG, Kuba K, Cammarato A, Isobe K, Amann S, Zhang L, Murata M, Elmén L, Gupta V, Arora S, Sarangi R, Dan D, Fujisawa S, Usami T, Xia CP, Keene AC, Alayari NN, Yamakawa H, Elling U, Berger C, Novatchkova M, Koglgruber R, Fukuda K, Nishina H, Isobe M, Pospisilik JA, Imai Y, Pfeufer A, Hicks AA, Pramstaller PP, Subramaniam S, Kimura A, Ocorr K, Bodmer R, Penninger JM

Cell 2010 Apr 2 ;141(1):142-53