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Joachim Berger

Title:	Dr
First Name:	Joachim
Surname:	Berger
Position:	Postdoctoral Fellow
Group:	Currie
Phone No:	+61 3 9902 9621
Email Address:	joachim.berger@monash.edu

Research Interests:	Muscular Dystrophy
Biography:	1998 I graduated in Chemistry and Biology at the University of Cologne, Germany, and worked in the field of plant development at the Max-Delbrück-Laboratory during my two diploma. I received my PhD from the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, where I analysed in the department of Peter Gruss the role of Pax6 in the development of the mouse brain. In 2003 I worked with Stephen Cohen at the EMBL for 6 month on drosophila, screening for growth deficient mutants. Since 2005 I am in the group of Peter Currie focusing on modeling Muscular Dystrophy in zebrafish, first at the Victor-Chang-Cardiac-Research-Institute in Sydney and since 2008 at the ARMI.
Selected Publications:	Berger, J., Berger, S., Cong Tuoc, T., D’Amelio, M., Cecconi, F., Gorski, J., Jones, K. R., Gruss, P., Stoykova, A. (2007) Conditional activation of Pax6 in the mouse developing cortex of transgenic mice causes progenitor apoptosis. Development 134, 1311-1322 PMID:17329367 Hall, T. E., Bryson-Richardson, R. J., Berger, S., Jacoby, A. S., Cole, N. J., Hollway, G. E., Berger, J., Currie P. D. (2007) The zebrafish candyfloss mutant implicates extracellular matrix adhesion failure in laminin α2-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy. PNAS 104, 7092–7097 PMID: 17438294 Berger, J. (corresponding author) and Currie, P. (2007) The role of zebrafish in chemical genetics, Curr. Med. Chem. 14, 2413-2420 PMID: 17896989 Davis, N., Yoffe, C., Raviv, S., Antes, R., Berger, J., Holzmann, S., Stoykova, A., Overbeek, P. A., Tamm, E. R., Ashery-Padan, R. (2009) Pax6 dosage requirements in iris and ciliary body differentiation. Dev Biol. 333, 132-142 PMID: 19563798 Jacoby, A. S., Busch-Nentwich, E., Bryson-Richardson, R. J., Hall, T. E., Berger, J., Berger, S., Sonntag, C., Sachs, C., Geisler, R., Stemple, D. L., Currie, P. D. (2009) The zebrafish dystrophic mutant softy maintains muscle fibre viability despite basement membrane rupture and muscle detachment. Development 136, 3367-3376 PMID:19736328 Berger, J., Berger, S., Hall T. E., Lieschke G. J., Currie P. D. (2010) Dystrophin-deﬁcient zebraﬁsh feature aspects of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy pathology. Neuromuscul Disord 20. 826-832 (IF: 2.977) PMID: 20850317 Berger, J., Berger, S., Jacoby, A. S., Wilton, S. D., Currie, P. D. (2011) Evaluation of Exon-Skipping Strategies for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Utilizing Dystrophin-deficient Zebrafish. J Cell Mol Med. 2011 Jan 20. doi: 10.1111/j.1582-4934.2011.01260.x. [Epub ahead of print] (IF: 5.228) PMID: 21251213
Other Info:	Dr. Dipl.-Chem., Dipl.-Biol.