Prof. Dr. med., Thomas Kuner

Studies of Medicine at Heidelberg Universität, doctoral thesis (“summa cum laude”) with Prof. Dr. Peter Seeburg at the Center for Molecular Biology Heidelberg, postdoctoral fellow with Prof. George Augustine at Duke University Medical Center in Durham (USA), group leader at the department of Cell Physiology with Prof. Dr. Bert Sakmann, Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research Heidelberg, Habilitation in physiology. Since 2006 professor at the Institute for Anatomie und Zellbiologie, since 2012 director oft the Department of Functional Neuroanatom.

• Translational lung research, electron microscopy of the lung
• Development and application of new microscopy techniques in super-resolution- and electron microscopy

Cystic fibrosis (CF)

1. Wagner, W.L., Zheng, Y., Pierce, A., Ackermann, M., Horstmann, H., Kuner, T., Ronchi, P., Schwab, Y., Konietzke, P., Wünnemann, F., et al. Mesopolysaccharides: The extracellular surface layer of visceral organs. PloS One, 2019; 15, e0238798.

2. Klevanski, M., Herrmannsdörfer, F., Sass, S., Venkataramani, V., Heilemann, M. Kuner, T. Automated highly multiplexed super-resolution imaging of protein nano-architecture in cells and tissues. Nature Communications, 2020; 11:1552.

3. Venkataramani, V., Herrmannsdörfer, F., Heilemann, M., Kuner, T. SuReSim – Simulating localization microscopy experiments from ground truth models. Nature Methods, 2016; 13:319-21.

4. Horstmann, H., Vasileva, M., & Kuner, T. Photooxidation-Guided Ultrastructural Identification and Analysis of Cells in Neuronal Tissue Labeled with Green Fluorescent Protein. PloS One, 2013; 8(5), e64764.

5. Horstmann, H., Körber, C., Sätzler, K., Aydin, D., Kuner, T. Serial Section Scanning Electron Microscopy (S³EM) on Silicon Wafers for Ultrastructural Volume Imaging of Cells and Tissues. PLoS One 2012; 7(4): e35172.

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