Dr. Christoph Kurat

Curriculum Vitae

Academic Education

• 2004 MSc (Mag. rer. nat.), University of Technology, Graz, Austria; (Prof Helmut Schwab)

Advanced Professional Degrees

• 2008 PhD (Dr. rer. nat.), Department of Biochemistry, University of Graz, Austria; (Prof Sepp D. Kohlwein)

Positions held

• Since 2017 Independent group leader at the LMU-BMC, Munich, Germany
• 2013 - 2017 Marie Curie fellow in the lab of Dr John Diffley, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
• 2009 – 2013 EMBO long-term fellow in the lab of Dr Brenda Andrews, The Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
• 2008 – 2009 Teaching and research fellow in the lab of Prof Sepp D. Kohlwein, University of Graz, Austria

Honours and Awards

• 2013 Marie Curie IEF fellowship
• 2013 Cancer Research UK fellowship
• 2009 EMBO long-term fellowship
• 2009 Erwin Schrödinger fellowship from the Austrian Science Fund
• 2004 PhD fellowship of the international excellence program “DK Molecular Enzymology”

Selected CRC project-related publications

Mivelaz M, Cao AM, Kubik S, Zencir S, Hovius R, Boichenko I, Stachowicz AM, Kurat CF, Shore D, Fierz B (2020) Chromatin Fiber Invasion and Nucleosome Displacement by the Rap1 Transcription Factor. Mol Cell 77: 488-500 e489

Kurat CF, Yeeles JTP, Patel H, Early A and Diffley JFX (2017). Chromatin controls DNA replication origin selection, lagging strand synthesis and replication fork rates; Molecular Cell, 65(1): 117-130

Costanzo M*, VanderSluis B*, Koch EN*, Baryshnikova A*, Pons C*, Tan G*, …, Kurat CF, et al., (2016) A global genetic interaction network maps a wiring diagram of cellular function; Science, 353(6306). pii: aaf142

Kurat CF, Lambert JP, Petschnigg J, Friesen H, Pawson, T, Rosebrock A, Gingras AC, Fillingham J and Andrews B (2014) Cell cycle regulated oscillator coordinates core histone transcription through histone acetylation; PNAS 111(39): 14124-9

Kurat CF, Recht J, Radovani E, Durbic T, Andrews B and Fillingham J (2014) Regulation of histone gene transcription in yeast; Cell Mol Life Sci 71(4): 599-613

Kurat CF, Lambert JP, van Dyk D, Tsui K, van Bakel H, Kaluarachchi S, Friesen H, Kainth P, Nislow C, Figeys D, Fillingham J and Andrews B (2011) Restriction of histone gene transcription to S phase by phosphorylation of a chromatin boundary protein; Genes & Development 25(23): 2489-501