Staff at EMBL
Dr. Francesca Peri
Group Leader
Peri Group
EMBL Heidelberg, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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Biography
PhD 2002, University of Cologne.
Postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen.
Group leader at EMBL since 2008.
ERC Investigator.
Publications
Animal models for studying microglia: The first, the popular, and the new. Sieger D,Peri F Glia. 2013 Jan;61(1):3-9. doi: 10.1002/glia.22385. Epub 2012 Sep 17. PubMed
Long-Range Ca(2+) Waves Transmit Brain-Damage Signals to Microglia. Sieger, D., Moritz, C., Ziegenhals, T., Prykhozhij, S. & Peri, F. Dev Cell. 2012 May 23. PubMed
Microglia in the developing brain: from immunity to behaviour. Schlegelmilch, T., Henke, K. & Peri, F. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2010 Sep 2. PubMed
Breaking ranks: how leukocytes react to developmental cues and tissue injury. Peri, F. Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2010 Aug;20(4):416-9. Epub 2010 Jun 2. PubMed
Tissue macrophages act as cellular chaperones for vascular anastomosis downstream of VEGF-mediated endothelial tip cell induction. Fantin, A., Vieira, J.M., Gestri, G., Denti, L., Schwarz, Q., Prykhozhij, S., Peri, F., Wilson, S.W. & Ruhrberg, C. Blood. 2010 Apr 19. PubMed
Live imaging of neuronal degradation by microglia reveals a role for v0-ATPase a1 in phagosomal fusion in vivo. Peri, F. & Nusslein-Volhard, C. Cell. 2008 May 30;133(5):916-27. PubMed