Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Salim Seyfried
Head of Department for Animal Physiology
Department of Biochemistry & Biology
University of Potsdam
Phone: (0331) 977 5540
Professional experience
W3-Professorship | Potsdam University
October 2014 – present
Head of Department for Animal Physiology
Zebrafish Cardiovascular Developmental Genetics
Heisenberg-Professorship | Hannover Medical School
August 2013 – October 2014
Zebrafish Cardiovascular Developmental Genetics
DFG Heisenberg Fellowship 2010-2013
Junior Group Leader | Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin
January 2002 - 2013
Developmental Genetics, Cell Biology, Functional Analysis of zebrafish mutants with defective cardiac morphogenesis
Education/ Training
Humboldt University Berlin
Habilitation "Cell Biology", 2010
UC San Francisco
Howard Hughes Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Yuh Nung Jan, 1997-2001
Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried
Max-Planck Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Prof. Ralf Schnabel, 1997
Harvard Medical School, Boston
Ph.D. student with Prof. Wolfgang Driever, 1993-1996
Eberhard-Karls University, Tübingen
Diploma student, Developmental Genetics, 1990-1993
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST)
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology program student, 1989-90
Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf
Biology program student, 1987-1989