About the authors
Kyle R. Legate
Kyle R. Legate obtained his Ph.D. in 2003 from the Department of Biochemistry at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. As a postdoctoral fellow in Reinhard Füssler's laboratory, he studies the role of phosphorylated lipids in focal-adhesion dynamics and mouse development. He holds a Marie Curie International Fellowship within the 6th European Community Framework Programme.
Eloi Montañez
Eloi Montañez received his Ph.D. in Biology in 2003 from the University of Barcelona, Spain, and is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Reinhard Füssler. His research is directed towards determining how PINCH1 regulates cell adhesion and survival and the role of 
-parvin in embryonic development.
Oliver Kudlacek
Oliver Kudlacek received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Vienna, Austria in 2001. From 2003 to 2005 he was a postdoctoral fellow in Reinhard Füssler's laboratory at the Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry where he examined ILK function in vivo using transgenic mice. He currently works at the Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, in the Institute of Pharmacology where his research focuses on G-protein-coupled receptors and their interaction partners.
Reinhard Füssler
Reinhard Füssler M.D. is a Director at the Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany, and Honorary Professor of Biochemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany, and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He studied medicine at the University of Innsbruck, Austria and he did his residency in different small hospitals at the Bodensee, Austria. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Rudolf Jaenisch at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, USA and as a group leader at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Molecular Biology, Salzburg, Austria, and at the Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany. He was chairman of the Department of Experimental Pathology of Lund University, Sweden, before moving back to the Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried. He previously worked on the function of extracellular-matrix proteins. His group now studies the genetic, molecular and cell-biological basis of cell adhesion and cell-adhesion signalling during mouse development and disease.
