Dr. Florian Wilfling
Independent Max Planck Research Group Leader
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Research Positions
Project Leader with Prof. Brenda Schulman and Prof. Wolfgang Baumeister at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Prof. Stefan Jentsch at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Graduate Researcher with Prof. Tobias Walther at Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, USA
Honors and Awards
ERC Starting Grant, IntrinsicReceptors
Junior Scientists’ Publication Award, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
EMBO Long-Term Fellowship
Fellow of the Boehringer Ingelheim Fond
Selected papers
1. How membrane contact sites shape the phagophore. Capitanio C, Bieber A, Wilfling F. Contact 2023, DOI: 10.1177/25152564231162495
2. In situ snapshots along a mammalian selective autophagy pathway. Li M, Tripathi-Giesgen I, Schulman BA, Baumeister W, Wilfling F. PNAS 2023, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2221712120
3. In situ structural analysis reveals membrane shape transitions during autophagosome formation. Bieber A, Capitanio C, Erdmann PS, Fiedler F, Beck F, Lee CW, Li D, Hummer G, Schulman BA, Baumeister W, Wilfling F. PNAS 2022, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2209823119
4. A selective autophagy pathway for phase separated endocytic protein deposits. Wilfling F, Lee CW, Erdmann PS, Zheng Y, Dawafuti S, Jentsch S, Pfander B, Schulman BA, Baumeister W. Molecular Cell 2020, DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2020.10.030
5. Selective autophagy degrades nuclear pore complexes. Lee CW, Wilfling F, Ronchi P, Allegretti M, Mosalaganti S, Jentsch S, Beck M, Pfander B. Nature Cell Biology 2020, DOI: 10.1038/s41556-019-0459-2.
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