Anja Hanisch

Postdoctoral research scientist at UK's leading charity dedicated to cancer research;

Research project: Study of the interaction of signalling pathways with respect to temporal control of cellular and developmental processes in vertebrates;

Published reviews:
- Lewis J., Hanisch A., Holder M., Notch signaling, the segmentation clock, and the patterning of vertebrate somites, J Biol., 2009
- Hanisch A., Vezzaro A., Rallis C., Elucidating developmental gene networks, Genome Biol., 2008

Supervision of Master student;

Zebrafish Development and Genetics course, MBL, Woods Hole, USA

Member of Postdoc committee and Organisation of Postdoc Retreat;

Organisation of lab tours for non-scientists, engagement with public at fund raising events of Cancer Research UK

Research project: Analysis of mitotic kinases and kinetochore proteins involved in checkpoint control

Peer-reviewed publications:
- Hanisch A., Nigg EA. and Silljé HH., Timely anaphase onset requires a novel spindle and kinetochore complex comprising Ska1 and Ska2, EMBO J, 2006
- Hanisch A., Wehner A., Nigg EA., Silljé HH., Different Plk1 functions show distinct dependencies on Polo-Box domain-mediated targeting, Mol Biol Cell, 2006
- Sauer G., Körner R., Hanisch A., Ries A., Nigg EA., Silljé HH., Proteome analysis of the human mitotic spindle, Mol Cell Proteomics, 2005
- Yamaguchi T., Goto H., Yokoyama T., Silljé H., Hanisch A., Uldschmid A., Takai Y., Oguri T., Nigg EA., Inagaki M., Phosphorylation by Cdk1 induces Plk1-mediated vimentin phosphorylation during mitosis, J Cell Biol., 2005

EMBO Cell Biology course

PhD representative of Cell Biology Department

Organisation of lab tours, talks and hands-on experiments for non-scientists at Open Days of the institute