How the tubulin code controls microtubule functions

Carsten Janke

Institute Curie, Department of Signaling, Neurobiology and Cancer, CNRS UMR 3348, Orsay, France

Carsten Janke holds a degree in Biochemistry from the University of Leipzig, where he alsoperformed his PhD with Thomas Arendt. He then worked with Elmar Schiebel at the BeatsonInstitute for Cancer Research in Glasgow, after which he moved to the CRBM in Montpellier to work on the tubulin code as a researcher with Bernard Eddé. Since 2005, Carsten heads anindependent team, which moved to the Institut Curie in 2010.

Carsten discovered key enzymes involved in tubulin posttranslational modifications and initiated the functional exploration of the tubulin code. He was elected an EMBO member in 2014 and has been coordinating an ERC synergy grant since 2022. Carsten’s current workfocuses on the function of the tubulin code from the single molecule to the whole organism.

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