Dr. Patrick Theer
Senior Research Assistant
Europen Molecular Biology Laboratory
Meyerhofstrasse 1
D-69117 Heidelberg
E-Mail: theer@embl.de
Tel. +49 (0)6221 387 8269
Room 402
Education and Professional Career
| 1994 – 1998 | Study of Physical Engineering at Technische Fachhochschule Berlin (University of Applied Science); major subject: Medical Physics, examination: Dipl. Ing. (engineering diploma) in October 1998 |
| 1997 – 1998 | Diploma thesis: research project at the University of Toronto, Ontario Cancer Institute, Canada, with Dr. L. Lilge |
| 1998 – 1999 | Technical supervision of a European clinical field trial introducing a non-pulsatile heart-assist system (DeBakey VAD) for Micromed Inc., Houston, USA |
| 1999 – 2000 | DAAD scholarship for MSc.-course in Medical Physics at the University of Surrey, GB; examination: MSc. in December 2000 |
| 2001 – 2004 | Predoctoral research at the Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg (Germany), with Prof. W. Denk; examination: Dr. rer. nat. in June 2004 |
| 2004 – 2005 | Postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research (Max-Planck-Scholarship), Heidelberg (Germany), Prof. W. Denk |
| 2005 – 2008 | Postdoctoral research at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, with Prof. P. Detwiler |
| July 2008 | Senior research assistant at EMBL, Light Microscopy Group, group leader: Ernst H.K. Stelzer |
Publications
Theer P, Denk W, Sheves M, Lewis A, Detwiler P
SHG-imaging of membrane potential with retinal analogues
(in preparation).
Theer P, Denk W
On the fundamental imaging-depth limit in two-photon microscopy
Journal Of The Optical Society Of America A-Optics Image Science And Vision 23(12), 3139-3149 (2006).
Theer P, Kuhn B, Keusters D, Denk W
Two-photon Microscopy and Imaging
in Encyclopedia of Molecular Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine 2nd ed., R. A. Meyers, ed., Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, pp. 61-88 (2005).
Theer P
PhD Thesis: On the fundamental imaging-depth limit in two-photon microscopy University of Heidelberg (2004).
Universität Heidelberg
Theer P, Hasan MT, Denk W Two-photon imaging to a depth of 1000 mu m in living brains by use of a Ti: Al2O3 regenerative amplifier
Optics Letters 28(12), 1022-1024 (2003).