Curriculum vitae Prof. Dr. med. habil. Hans-Jürgen Thiesen

Personal Data

Date of Birth: June 5th, 1956; Place of Birth: Dannewerk, Germany

Academic Career

• May 6th, 1975 Allgemeine Hochschulreife (Abitur: Durchschnittsnote 1.8)
• 1976 - 1982 Medical Studies University of Hamburg /Approbation Oct.10, 1982)
• Sept. 1982 Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (E.C.M.F.G.)
• Oct. 1983 Visa Qualifying Examination (V.Q. E.)
• 1993 - 1995 Habilitation at the Medical Faculty University of Freiburg/Germany
• 1.4.1996 C4-Professorship in Immunology at the University of Medicine Rostock
• 1.2.95-30.9.2022 Direktor of the Institute of Immunology University Medicine Rostock
• 1.10.2022 – ongoing Emeritus Professor

Scientific Experience

• 1980 - 1983 Promotion Pathology (April 20, 1983, SFB-Endokrinology UKE Hamburg)
• 1982 - 1985 Postdoctoral Fellow (Immunology, University Clinic Hamburg)
• 1985 - 1987 EMBO Fellow at European Molecular Biology Laboratories (EMBL)
• 1987 - 1995 Independent Scientist at the Basel Institute for Immunology

Honours and Awards

• 1978 - 1982  Stipend Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
• 1985 – 1987 EMBO Fellowship
• 1.7.1987 G. E. Konjetzny-Award 1986 on Ricin A and Ricin B conjugates"

Publications (in Google scholar)

8667 citations; h-index: 48; i10-Index 127

References related to ZNF biology (2020)

1. M Al Chiblak, F Steinbeck, HJ Thiesen, P Lorenz.
   DUF3669, a “domain of unknown function” within ZNF746 and ZNF777, oligomerizes and contributes to transcriptional repression;
   BMC molecular and cell biology 20 (1), 60, 2019; Citations: 2
2. N Born, HJ Thiesen, P Lorenz.
   The B-subdomain of the Xenopus laevis XFIN KRAB-AB domain is responsible for its weaker transcriptional repressor activity compared to human ZNF10/Kox1;
   PLoS One 9 (2), e87609, 2014; Citations: 8
3. G Ding, P Lorenz, M Kreutzer, Y Li, HJ Thiesen.
   SysZNF: the C2H2 zinc finger gene database;
   Nucleic acids research 37 (suppl_1), D267-D273, 2009; Citations: 47
4. P Lorenz, D Koczan, HJ Thiesen.
   Transcriptional repression mediated by the KRAB domain of the human C2H2 zinc finger protein Kox1/ZNF10 does not require histone deacetylation;
   Biological chemistry 382 (4), 637-644, 2001; Citations: 31
5. O Herchenröder, JC Hahne, WKH Meyer, HJ Thiesen, J Schneider.
   Repression of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 promoter by the human KRAB domain results in inhibition of virus production;
   Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene Structure and Expression 1445 (2 …, 1999; Citations: 24
6. FL Lim, M Soulez, D Koczan, HJ Thiesen, JC Knight.
   A KRAB-related domain and a novel transcription repression domain in proteins encoded by SSX genes that are disrupted in human sarcomas;
   Oncogene 17 (15), 2013-2018, 1998; Citations: 142
7. U Deuschle, WK Meyer, HJ Thiesen.
   Tetracycline-reversible silencing of eukaryotic promoters.;
   Molecular and cellular biology 15 (4), 1907-1914, 1995; Citations: 360
8. R Margolin, Friedmann, Meyer, Vissing, Thiesen.
   Krueppel-associated boxes are potent transcriptional repression domains;
   Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 91, 4509-13, 1994; Citations: 634
9. H Thiesen, C Bach.
   Target Detection Assay (TDA): a versatile procedure to determine DNA blinding sites as demonstrated on SP1 protein;
   Nucleic Acids Research 18 (11), 3203-3209, 1990; Citations: 293
10. HJ Thiesen.
    Multiple genes encoding zinc finger domains are expressed in human T cells;
    New Biol 2 (4), 363-374, 1990; Citations: 101