Senior Lecturer in Zoology
Developmental Biology, Stem Cells in animals and marine organisms, the manipulation of key stem cells and their derivatives
Researcher in
Stem cell-mediated head regeneration in Hydractinia
2009 Senior Lecturer in Zoology, NUI Galway, Developmental Biology
2005 Lecturer, NUI Galway, Developmental Biology
2000 Group Leader, University of Heidelberg, Germany
1994 Postdoctoral Researcher, National Institute of Oceanography, Haifa, Israel
2007 Science Foundation Ireland Principal Investigator
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=uri%20frank
Millane RC, Kanska J, Duffy DJ, Seoighe C, Cunningham S, Plickert G, Frank U (2011). Induced stem cell neoplasia in a cnidarian by ectopic expression of a POU domain transcription factor. Development138(12): 2429-2439
Duffy DJ, Frank U (2011). Modulation of COUP-TF expression in a cnidarian by ectopic Wnt signalling and allorecognition. PLoS One 6(4): e19443.
Mali B, Millane RC, Plickert G, Frohme M, Frank U (2011). A polymorphic, thrombospondin-containing lectin is an oocyte marker in Hydractinia: implications for germ cell specification and sex determination.Int J Dev Biol 55: 103-108.
Künzel T, Heiermann R, Frank U, Müller WA, Tilmann W, Bause M, Nonn A, Helling M, Schwarz RS, Plickert G (2010). Migration and differentiation potential of stem cells in the cnidarian Hydractiniaanalysed in eGFP-transgenic animals and chimeras. Dev Biol 348: 120-129.
DJ, Plickert G, Kuenzel T, Tilmann W, Frank U (2010). Wnt signaling promotes oral but suppresses aboral structures in Hydractinia metamorphosis and regeneration. Development 137(18): 3057-3066.
Soza-Ried J, Hotz-Wagenblatt A, Glatting KH, del Val C, Fellenberg K. Bode H, Frank U, Hoheisel J, Frohme, M (2010). The transcriptome of the colonial marine hydroid Hydractinia echinata. FEBS J 277(1):197-209.
Frank U, Plickert G, Müller WA (2009). Cnidarian interstitial cells: the dawn of stem cell research. In Rinkevich B, Matranga V (eds) Stem cells in marine organisms. Springer, ISBN: 978-90-481-2766-5.
Frank U (2007). The evolution of a malignant dog. Evol & Dev 9(6): 521-522.
Müller WA, Frank U, Teo R, Mokady O, Gütte C, Plickert G (2007). Wnt signaling in hydroid development: Ectopic heads and giant buds induced by GSK-3ß inhibitors. Int J Dev Biol 51: 211-220.
Plickert G, Jacoby V, Frank U, Müller WA, Mokady O (2006). Wnt signaling in hydroid development: Formation of the primary body axis in embryogenesis and its subsequent patterning. Dev Biol 298: 368-378.
Member of the British Society for Developmental Biology
