2001-05-03 Ph.D. in Sciences, summa cum laude, Georg August University Goettingen, Germany
1997-11-03 Diploma in Biology, Georg August University Goettingen, Germany
2017-present - Associate Professor, SUSTech-PKU Institute of Plant and Food Science, Department of Biology, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
2009-2017 - Independent Research Group Leader, Center for Plant Molecular Biology, Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen, Germany
2005-2009 - Research Group Leader, Heidelberger Institute for Plant Sciences, Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg, Germany
2003-2005 - Postdoc researcher, Center for Plant Sciences, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
2001-2003 - Marie Curie postdoctoral research fellow, Center for Plant Sciences, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
1999-2000 - Research Assistant, Albrecht-von-Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, Georg August University Goettingen, Germany
2002: 'Horst-Wiehe-Prize' of the German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) for outstanding scientific work in the field of Botany. Freiburg, Germany
2001: Marie Curie Individual post-doctoral Fellowship of the European Union (EU)
Research
Receptor-mediated sorting of proteins Vesicle-mediated transport processes Biogenesis and aging of intracellular compartments
Receptor-mediated sorting of soluble vacuolar proteins ends at the trans-Golgi network/early endosome (TGN/EE), Künzl, F., Früholz, S., Fäßler, F. Li, B. and Pimpl, P.*, 2016
Receptor-mediated transport of vacuolar proteins: a critical analysis and a new model, Robinson, D.G. and Pimpl, P.*, 2014
Clathrin and post-Golgi trafficking: a very complicated issue, Robinson, D.G., and Pimpl, P., 2014
Organelle pH in the Arabidopsis Endomembrane System, Shen, J., Zeng, Y., Zhuang, X., Sun, L., Yao, X., Pimpl, P., and Jiang, L., 2013
Ubiquitin initiates sorting of Golgi and PM proteins into the vacuolar degradation pathway, Scheuring, D., Künzl, F., Viotti, C., San Wan Yan, M., Jiang, L., Schellmann, S., Robinson, D.G., and Pimpl, P.*, 2012
Trying to make sense of retromer, Robinson, D.G., Pimpl, P., Scheuring, D., Stierhof, Y.D., Sturm, S., and Viotti, C., 2012
Multiple cytosolic and transmembrane determinants are required for the trafficking of SCAMP1 via an ER-Golgi-TGN-PM pathway, Cai, Y., Jia, T., Lam, S.K., Ding, Y., Gao, C., San, M.W., Pimpl, P., and Jiang, L., 2011
Multivesicular bodies mature from the trans-Golgi network/early endosome (TGN/EE) in Arabidopsis, Scheuring, D., Viotti, C., Kruger, F., Künzl, F., Sturm, S., Bubeck, J., Hillmer, S., Frigerio, L., Robinson, D.G., Pimpl, P.*, and Schumacher, K., 2011
Sorting of plant vacuolar proteins is initiated in the ER, Niemes, S., Labs, M., Scheuring, D., Krueger, F., Langhans, M., Jesenofsky, B., Robinson, D.G., and Pimpl, P.*
Retromer recycles vacuolar sorting receptors from the trans-Golgi network, Niemes, S., Langhans, M., Viotti, C., Scheuring, D., Yan, M.S., Jiang, L., Hillmer, S., Robinson, D.G., and Pimpl, P.*, 2010
The AAA-type ATPase AtSKD1 contributes to vacuolar maintenance of Arabidopsis thaliana, Shahriari, M., Keshavaiah, C., Scheuring, D., Sabovljevic, A., Pimpl, P., Häusler, R.E., Hülskamp, M., and Schellmann, S., 2010
The BFA-induced compartments from Golgi apparatus and trans-Golgi network are morphologically and functionally distinct in plant cells, Lam, S. K., Cai, Y., Tse, Y. C. Wang, J., Pimpl, P., Chan, H. Y. E., Xia, J. and Jiang, L., 2009
Coats of endosomal protein sorting: retromer and ESCRT, Schellmann, S*. and Pimpl, P.*, 2009
Oryzalin bodies: In addition to its antimicrotubule properties the dinitroaniline herbicide oryzalin causes nodulation of the endoplasmic reticulum, Langhans, M., Marcote, M.J., Pimpl, P., Virgili-Lopez, G., Robinson, D.G., and Aniento, F., 2008
In vivo Trafficking and Localization of p24 Proteins in Plant Cells, Langhans, M., Niemes, S., Pimpl, P. and Robinson, D. G., 2008
Golgi-mediated vacuolar sorting of the endoplasmic reticulum chaperone BiP may play an active role in quality control within the secretory pathway, Pimpl, P., Taylor, J.P., Snowden, C., Hillmer, S., Robinson, D.G and Denecke, J., 2006
The GTPase ARF1p Controls the Sequence-Specific Vacuolar Sorting Route to the Lytic Vacuole, Pimpl, P., Hanton, S. L., Taylor, J. P., Pinto-DaSilva, L. L., and Denecke, J., 2003
Reevaluation of the effects of brefeldin A on plant cells using tobacco BY-2 cells expressing Golgi-targeted GFP and COPI-antisera, Ritzenthaler, C., Nebenführ, A., Movafeghi, A., Stussi-Garaud, C., Behnia, L., Pimpl. P., Staehelin, L.A., Robinson, D.G, 2002
Protein interactions in the secretory pathway, a growing demand for experimental approaches in vivo, Pimpl, P. and Denecke, J., 2002
Secretory bulk flow of soluble proteins is efficient and COPII dependent, Phillipson, B.A*., Pimpl, P.*, Lamberti Pinto daSilva, L., Crofts, A.J., Taylor, J.P., Movafeghi, A., Robinson, D.G., Denecke, J., 2001
A vacuolar sorting domain may also influence the way in which proteins leave the endoplasmic reticulum, Törmäkangas, K., Hadlington, J.L., Pimpl, P., Hillmer, S., Brandizzi, F., Teeri, T.H. Denecke, J., 2001
In situ localization and in vitro induction of plant COPI-coated vesicles, Pimpl, P., Movafeghi, A., Coughlan, S., Denecke, J., Hillmer, S., Robinson, D.G., 2000
ER retention of soluble proteins: Retrieval, retention, or both?, Pimpl, P. and Denecke, J., 2000
Arabidopsis Sec21p and Sec23p homologs. Probable coat proteins of plant COP-coated vesicles, Movafeghi, A., Happel, N., Pimpl, P., Tai, G-H., and Robinson, D.G., 1999
