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World Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2017 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Genetics/Molecular Biology and Cell Biology
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Volker Haucke is affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research mainly focuses on cellular transport and secretion, lipid membrane structure and behavior, and various aspects of cellular and molecular neuroscience. The subfields of study with the most publications include cell biology, molecular biology, physiology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and epidemiology.

Haucke's work encompasses both fundamental and applied aspects within these fields, addressing topics such as calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism, autophagy in disease and therapy, endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease, as well as protein kinase regulation and GTPase signaling. Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research also form a part of their scientific contributions.

Their recent papers include:

  • "Phosphoinositides as membrane organizers" (2022), published in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • "Neuronal Autophagy Regulates Presynaptic Neurotransmission by Controlling the Axonal Endoplasmic Reticulum" (2020), published in Neuron
  • "Vesicle Clustering in a Living Synapse Depends on a Synapsin Region that Mediates Phase Separation" (2020), published in Cell Reports
  • "Nutrient-regulated control of lysosome function by signaling lipid conversion" (2023), published in Cell
  • "Endosomal lipid signaling reshapes the endoplasmic reticulum to control mitochondrial function" (2022), published in Science

Frequent co-authors in Haucke's publications include Martin Lehmann, Dmytro Puchkov, Christopher Schmied, Tanja Maritzen, and Tolga Soykan. Their collaborative work reflects a consistent engagement with a core group of researchers in related topics.

Publication venues where Haucke has frequently published are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Neuron
  • Nature Communications

Volker Haucke has received recognition in their scientific career, including being a member of Academia Europaea since 2019 and membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina with a focus on genetics, molecular biology, and cell biology awarded in 2017. They are also a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Composition of isolated synaptic boutons reveals the amounts of vesicle trafficking proteins

    Benjamin G. Wilhelm;Sunit Mandad;Sven Truckenbrodt;Katharina Kröhnert

  • Functional partnership between amphiphysin and dynamin in clathrin-mediated endocytosis.

    Kohji Takei;Vladimir I. Slepnev;Volker Haucke;Pietro De Camilli

  • Role of the Clathrin Terminal Domain in Regulating Coated Pit Dynamics Revealed by Small Molecule Inhibition.

    Lisa von Kleist;Wiebke Stahlschmidt;Haydar Bulut;Kira Gromova

  • Spatiotemporal control of endocytosis by phosphatidylinositol-3,4-bisphosphate

    York Posor;Marielle Eichhorn-Gruenig;Dmytro Puchkov;Johannes Schöneberg

  • Generation of Coated Intermediates of Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis on Protein-Free Liposomes

    Kohji Takei;Volker Haucke;Vladimir Slepnev;Khashayar Farsad

  • Clathrin-mediated endocytosis: membrane factors pull the trigger

    Kohji Takei;Volker Haucke

  • ARF6 stimulates clathrin/AP-2 recruitment to synaptic membranes by activating phosphatidylinositol phosphate kinase type Iγ

    Michael Krauss;Masahiro Kinuta;Markus R. Wenk;Pietro De Camilli

  • Phosphatidylinositol-(4,5)-bisphosphate regulates sorting signal recognition by the clathrin-associated adaptor complex AP2.

    Stefan Höning;Doris Ricotta;Michael Krauss;Kira Späte

  • Crystal structure of nucleotide-free dynamin.

    Katja Faelber;York Posor;Song Gao;Song Gao;Martin Held

  • Protein scaffolds in the coupling of synaptic exocytosis and endocytosis

    Volker Haucke;Erwin Neher;Stephan J. Sigrist;Stephan J. Sigrist

  • Phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphates—at the interface between cell signalling and membrane traffic

    Andrea L Marat;Volker Haucke

  • Huntingtin-associated protein 1 regulates inhibitory synaptic transmission by modulating γ-aminobutyric acid type A receptor membrane trafficking

    Josef T. Kittler;Philip Thomas;Verena Tretter;Yuri D. Bogdanov

  • BAR Domain Scaffolds in Dynamin-Mediated Membrane Fission

    Oliver Daumke;Aurélien Roux;Volker Haucke;Volker Haucke

  • Surface Functionalization of Silica Nanoparticles Supports Colloidal Stability in Physiological Media and Facilitates Internalization in Cells

    Christina Graf;Qi Gao;Irene Schütz;Christelle Njiki Noufele

  • AP-2 recruitment to synaptotagmin stimulated by tyrosine-based endocytic motifs.

    Volker Haucke;Pietro De Camilli

  • Plasmalemmal phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate level regulates the releasable vesicle pool size in chromaffin cells.

    Ira Milosevic;Jakob B. Sørensen;Thorsten Lang;Michael Krauss

  • Phospho-dependent binding of the clathrin AP2 adaptor complex to GABAA receptors regulates the efficacy of inhibitory synaptic transmission

    Josef T. Kittler;Guojun Chen;Stephan Honing;Yury Bogdanov

  • A phosphatidylinositol (4,5)-bisphosphate binding site within μ2-adaptin regulates clathrin-mediated endocytosis

    Gundula Rohde;Dirk Wenzel;Volker Haucke

  • Clathrin/AP-2 Mediate Synaptic Vesicle Reformation from Endosome-like Vacuoles but Are Not Essential for Membrane Retrieval at Central Synapses

    Natalia L. Kononenko;Natalia L. Kononenko;Dmytro Puchkov;Gala A. Classen;Gala A. Classen;Alexander M. Walter;Alexander M. Walter

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephan J. Sigrist
Stephan J. Sigrist Freie Universität Berlin
Wolfram Saenger
Wolfram Saenger Freie Universität Berlin
Phillip J. Robinson
Phillip J. Robinson Children's Medical Research Institute
Adam McCluskey
Adam McCluskey University of Newcastle Australia
Dietmar Schmitz
Dietmar Schmitz Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Gottfried Schatz
Gottfried Schatz University of Basel
Josef T. Kittler
Josef T. Kittler University College London
Carsten Schultz
Carsten Schultz Oregon Health & Science University
Pietro De Camilli
Pietro De Camilli Yale University

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