Dr. Sabina Tahirovic

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Tahirovic studied molecular biology at the University of Zagreb, Croatia (1994-1999) and was honored for her scientific achievements with the University of Zagreb Rector´s award (1998). For her graduate studies (2000-2004), she joined the laboratory of Prof. Dr. B. Dobberstein at the Center for Molecular Biology, University of Heidelberg (ZMBH). During that time, supervised by Prof. Dr. P. Mayinger, she studied the role of the yeast phosphoinositide phosphatase Sac1p in intracellular trafficking.

As postdoctoral fellow in Dr. F. Bradke´s group at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Munich (2005-2010), Dr. Tahirovic got interested in developmental neurobiology and analyzed the role of actin cytoskeleton and Rho GTPase Rac1 during neuronal polarization. She identified a crucial positive role of Rac1-dependent signalling in axon formation.

Since June 2010, Dr. Tahirovic is a group leader of the Neuronal Core Facility at the DZNE in Munich. Her current research focuses on understanding the cellular and molecular basis of neurodegeneration. To this end, she combines in vitro approaches and functional studies in cultured primary neurons with the in vivo analysis of transgenic animal models for neurodegenerative diseases.