Michael Krieg, Ph.D.

K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award
photo of Michael Krieg
Institution
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Awarded Project
The Mechanical Control of Mechanosensation

Council Dates: October 2014 - May 2015

Independent Position: Institute of Photonic Sciences, ICFO, Spain

Michael Krieg was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University. In the lab of Dr. Miriam Goodman, Michael investigated basic mechanotransduction pathways in neurons of the model organism, C. elegans. Michael earned his Ph.D. in Developmental Biology/Biophysics from the Technical University Dresden. Currently, Dr. Krieg is the Group Leader of the Neurophotonics and Mechanical Systems Biology Research Group at the Institute of Photonic Sciences, ICFO, Spain.