Dr. Timm Danker

Group Leader Electrophysiology

Dr. Timm Danker

Group Leader Electrophysiology

1999 - 2002
Data Scientist, Pharma Research Kaufbeuren PFK
2002 - 2006
Product Developer, Cytocentrics CCS AG
2006 - 2021
Head of automated electrophysiology and test development, NMI TT Pharmaservices
2022 - today
Group Leader Electrophysiology, NMI

After completing his PhD at the University of Münster in 1999, he joined the NMI TT Pharmaservices in 2006 and moved to the NMI in 2022, where he is group leader of the electrophysiology group. His research interests include the use of automated electrophysiology, patch clamp, and oocyte recordings.

Selected publications

  • Danker, Timm, und Clemens Möller. „Early Identification of HERG Liability in Drug Discovery Programs by Automated Patch Clamp“. Frontiers in Pharmacology 5 (2014): 203. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2014.00203
  • Beissner, Mirko, Sebastien Dutertre, Rudolf Schemm, Timm Danker, Annett Sporning, Helmut Grubmuller, und Annette Nicke. „Efficient Binding of 4/7 α-Conotoxins to Nicotinic Α4β2 Receptors Is Prevented by R185 and P195 in the Α4 Subunit“. Molecular Pharmacology, 16. Juli 2012. https://doi.org/10.1124/mol.112.078683
  • Danker, Timm, Franziska Braun, Nikole Silbernagl, und Elke Guenther. „Catch and Patch: A Pipette-Based Approach for Automating Patch Clamp That Enables Cell Selection and Fast Compound Application“. ASSAY and Drug Development Technologies 14, Nr. 2 (1. März 2016): 144–55. https://doi.org/10.1089/adt.2015.696
  • Danker, T, H Schillers, J Storck, V Shahin, B Kramer, M Wilhelmi, und H Oberleithner. „Nuclear hourglass technique: an approach that detects electrically open nuclear pores in Xenopus laevis oocyte“. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 96, Nr. 23 (9. November 1999): 13530–35
  • Danker, T, M Mazzanti, R Tonini, A Rakowska, und H Oberleithner. „Using atomic force microscopy to investigate patch-clamped nuclear membrane“. Cell Biology International 21, Nr. 11 (November 1997): 747–57. https://doi.org/10.1006/cbir.1997.0219