EMBL Heidelberg, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7098-0700
Biography
PhD in Biology, 2001, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich.
Microscopy specialist in the Advanced Light Microscopy Facility, EMBL Heidelberg.
Head of the Advanced Light Microscopy Unit, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain.
Team leader at EMBL from October 2020.
Publications
Total: 35 publication(s)
2019
Zimmermann T. (2019)
Photobleaching and sensitized emission-based methods for the detection of Förster resonance energy transfer.
In: Rebollo E, Bosch M, Computer Optimized Microscopy, vol 2040. pp 235-274.Methods Mol Biol 2040:235-274. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9686-5_12
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2017
Raote I, Ortega Bellido M, Pirozzi M, Zhang C, Melville D, Parashuraman S, Zimmermann T, Malhotra V. (2017)
TANGO1 assembles into rings around COPII coats at ER exit sites.
J Cell Biol 216(4):901-909. doi: 10.1083/jcb.201608080
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Merino D, Mallabiabarrena A, Andilla J, Artigas D, Zimmermann T, Loza-Alvarez P. (2017)
STED imaging performance estimation by means of Fourier transform analysis.
Biomed Opt Express 8(5):2472-2482. doi: 10.1364/BOE.8.002472
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2016
Irazoki O, Aranda J, Zimmermann T, Campoy S, Barbé J. (2016)
Molecular interaction and cellular location of RecA and CheW proteins in Salmonella enterica during SOS response and their implication in swarming.
Front Microbiol 7 doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01560
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Jelier R, Kruger A, Swoger J, Zimmermann T, Lehner B. (2016)
Compensatory cell movements confer robustness to mechanical deformation during embryonic development.
Cell Syst 3(2):160-171. doi: 10.1016/j.cels.2016.07.005
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2015
Krüger AV, Jelier R, Dzyubachyk O, Zimmermann T, Meijering E, Lehner B. (2015)
Comprehensive single cell-resolution analysis of the role of chromatin regulators in early C. elegans embryogenesis.
Dev Biol 398(2):153-62. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2014.10.014
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2014
Zimmermann T, Marrison J, Hogg K, O'Toole P. (2014)
Clearing up the signal: spectral imaging and linear unmixing in fluorescence microscopy.
Methods Mol Biol 1075:129-48. doi: 10.1007/978-1-60761-847-8_5
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Agi E, Langen M, Altschuler SJ, Wu LF, Zimmermann T, Hiesinger PR. (2014)
The evolution and development of neural superposition.
J Neurogenet 28(3-4):216-32. doi: 10.3109/01677063.2014.922557
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Carvalho A, Menendez DB, Senthivel VR, Zimmermann T, Diambra L, Isalan M. (2014)
Genetically encoded sender-receiver system in 3D mammalian cell culture.
ACS Synth Biol 3(5):264-72. doi: 10.1021/sb400053b
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Kiel C, Ebhardt HA, Burnier J, Portugal C, Sabidó E, Zimmermann T, Aebersold R, Serrano L. (2014)
Quantification of ErbB network proteins in three cell types using complementary approaches identifies cell-general and cell-type-specific signaling proteins.
J Proteome Res 13(1):300-13. doi: 10.1021/pr400878x
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2013
Grünberg R, Burnier JV, Ferrar T, Beltran-Sastre V, Stricher F, van der Sloot AM, Garcia-Olivas R, Mallabiabarrena A, Sanjuan X, Zimmermann T, Serrano L. (2013)
Engineering of weak helper interactions for high-efficiency FRET probes.
Nat Methods 10(10):1021-7. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.2625
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2012
Kopp K, Buntru A, Pils S, Zimmermann T, Frank R, Zumbusch A, Hauck CR. (2012)
Grb14 is a negative regulator of CEACAM3-mediated phagocytosis of pathogenic bacteria.
J Biol Chem 287(46):39158-70. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M112.395228
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Seitz A, Terjung S, Zimmermann T, Pepperkok R. (2012)
Quantifying the influence of yellow fluorescent protein photoconversion on acceptor photobleaching-based fluorescence resonance energy transfer measurements.
J Biomed Opt 17(1):011010. doi: 10.1117/1.jbo.17.1.011010
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2011
von Blume J, Alleaume AM, Cantero-Recasens G, Curwin A, Carreras-Sureda A, Zimmermann T, van Galen J, Wakana Y, Valverde MA, Malhotra V. (2011)
ADF/Cofilin regulates secretory cargo sorting at the TGN via the Ca2+ ATPase SPCA1.
DEV CELL 20(5):652-662. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2011.03.014
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2009
Buntru A, Zimmermann T, Hauck CR. (2009)
Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based subcellular visualization of pathogen-induced host receptor signaling.
BMC Biol 7 doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-81
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Bussmann LH, Schubert A, Vu Manh TP, De Andres L, Desbordes SC, Parra M, Zimmermann T, Rapino F, Rodriguez-Ubreva J, Ballestar E, Graf T. (2009)
A robust and highly efficient immune cell reprogramming system.
Cell Stem Cell 5(5):554-66. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2009.10.004
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2008
Duran JM, Kinseth M, Bossard C, Rose DW, Polishchuk R, Wu CC, Yates J, Zimmerman T, Malhotra V. (2008)
The role of GRASP55 in Golgi fragmentation and entry of cells into mitosis.
Mol Biol Cell 19(6):2579-87. doi: 10.1091/mbc.e07-10-0998
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2007
Bilic J, Huang YL, Davidson G, Zimmermann T, Cruciat CM, Bienz M, Niehrs C. (2007)
Wnt induces LRP6 signalosomes and promotes dishevelled-dependent LRP6 phosphorylation.
Science 316(5831):1619-1622. doi: 10.1126/science.1137065
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Ma B, Zimmermann T, Rohde M, Winkelbach S, He F, Lindenmaier W, Dittmar KE. (2007)
Use of Autostitch for automatic stitching of microscope images.
Micron 38(5):492-499. doi: 10.1016/j.micron.2006.07.027
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2006
Brunet S, Zimmermann T, Reynaud EG, Vernos I, Karsenti E, Pepperkok R. (2006)
Detection and quantification of protein-microtubules interactions using green fluorescent protein photoconversion.
Traffic 7(9):1283-1289. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0854.2006.00463.x
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Forster R, Weiss M, Zimmermann T, Reynaud EG, Verissimo F, Stephens DJ, Pepperkok R. (2006)
Secretory cargo regulates the turnover of COPII subunits at single ER exit sites.
Curr. Biol. 16(2):173-179. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.11.076
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2005
Moita LF, Wang-Sattler R, Michel K, Zimmermann T, Blandin S, Levashina EA, Kafatos FC. (2005)
In vivo identification of novel regulators and conserved pathways of phagocytosis in A. gambiae.
Immunity 23(1):65-73. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2005.05.006
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Gräf R, Rietdorf J, Zimmermann T. (2005)
Live cell spinning disk microscopy.
Adv. Biochem. Eng. Biotechnol. 95:57-75. doi: 10.1007/b102210
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Pepperkok R, Simpson JC, Rietdorf J, Cetin C, Liebel U, Terjung S, Zimmermann T. (2005)
Imaging platforms for measurement of membrane trafficking.
Meth. Enzymol. 404:8-18. doi: 10.1016/s0076-6879(05)04002-4
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Zimmermann T. (2005)
Spectral imaging and linear unmixing in light microscopy.
Adv. Biochem. Eng. Biotechnol. 95:245-265. doi: 10.1007/b102216
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2004
Brunet S, Sardon T, Zimmerman T, Wittmann T, Pepperkok R, Karsenti E, Vernos I. (2004)
Characterization of the TPX2 domains involved in microtubule nucleation and spindle assembly in Xenopus egg extracts.
Mol. Biol. Cell 15(12):5318-5328. doi: 10.1091/mbc.e04-05-0385
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Vlachou D, Zimmermann T, Cantera R, Janse CJ, Waters AP, Kafatos FC. (2004)
Real-time, in vivo analysis of malaria ookinete locomotion and mosquito midgut invasion.
Cell. Microbiol. 6(7):671-685. doi: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2004.00394.x
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2003
Zimmermann T, Rietdorf J, Pepperkok R. (2003)
Spectral imaging and its applications in live cell microscopy.
FEBS Lett. 546(1):87-92. doi: 10.1016/s0014-5793(03)00521-0
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2002
Zimmermann T, Rietdorf J, Girod A, Georget V, Pepperkok R. (2002)
Spectral imaging and linear un-mixing enables improved FRET efficiency with a novel GFP2-YFP FRET pair.
FEBS Lett. 531(2):245-249. doi: 10.1016/s0014-5793(02)03508-1
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2001
Rietdorf J, Ploubidou A, Reckmann I, Holmström A, Frischknecht F, Zettl M, Zimmermann T, Way M. (2001)
Kinesin-dependent movement on microtubules precedes actin-based motility of vaccinia virus.
Nat. Cell Biol. 3(11):992-1000. doi: 10.1038/ncb1101-992
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1998
Zimmermann T, Siegert F. (1998)
4D confocal microscopy of Dictyostelium discoideum morphogenesis and its presentation on the Internet.
Dev Genes Evol 208(7):411-20. doi: 10.1007/s004270050198
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Zimmermann T, Siegert F. (1998)
Simultaneous detection of two GFP spectral mutants during in vivo confocal microscopy of migrating Dictyostelium cells.
Biotechniques 24(3):458-61. doi: 10.2144/98243st06
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1997
Melzer RR, Zimmermann T, Smola U. (1997)
Modification of dispersal patterns of branched photoreceptor axons and the evolution of neural superposition.
Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 53(3) doi: 10.1007/PL00000598
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1996
Petykó Z, Zimmermann T, Smola U, Melzer RR. (1996)
Central projections of Tömösváry's organ in Lithobius forficatus (Chilopoda, Lithobiidae).
Cell Tissue Res 283(2):331-4. doi: 10.1007/s004410050543
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