Prof. Sergio P. Acebrón
Microenvironmental Cell Biology
Since 2026, Scientific Director of EHU-iBio
Ikerbasque Research Professor at University of Basque Country (EHU)
Professor and Head of the Dept of. Cell signalling & Genome stability at Heidelberg University
Hella Bühler Preis 2021 for “outstanding work in cancer research”, Cancer Research UK Career development award 2017 (Declined), DAAD European Witness appointment in 2017.
Co-founder and former president (2012 – 2014) of the Society of Spanish Researchers in Germany (CERFA). Director of Science+ (2015 – 2019).
Previous research experience at Heidelberg University (Germany, 2017 – present), and German Cancer Research Center – DKFZ (Germany, 2009 – 2017)
Doctor in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2008) from University of the Basque Country (Spain)
Selected Publications
| Smarduch, S., et al. “A Novel Biosensor for the Spatiotemporal Analysis of Sting Activation During Innate Immune Responses to dsDNA.” EMBO J 44.7 (2025) |
| de Jaime-Soguero, A., et al. “Developmental Signals Control Chromosome Segregation Fidelity During Pluripotency and Neurogenesis by Modulating Replicative Stress.” Nature Communications 15.1 (2024) |
| van den Berg, J., et al. “Quantifying DNA Replication Speeds in Single Cells by Scedu-Seq.” Nature Methods 21.7 (2024) |
| Bufe, A., et al. “Wnt Signaling Recruits Kif2a to the Spindle to Ensure Chromosome Congression and Alignment During Mitosis.” PNAS118.34 (2021) |
| Giebel, N., et al. “Usp42 Protects Znrf3/Rnf43 from R-Spondin-Dependent Clearance and Inhibits Wnt Signalling.” EMBO Reports 22.5 (2021) |
| Koch, S., et al., “Post-transcriptional Wnt signaling governs epididymal sperm maturation.” CELL 5 1225-1236 (2016) |
| Acebrón , SP., et al., ” Mitotic wnt signaling promotes protein stabilization and regulates cell size.” Molecular Cell 54, 4 (2014) |
| Cruciat, CM., et al., “Requirement of prorenin receptor and vacuolar H+-ATPase–mediated acidification for Wnt signaling” SCIENCE 327 (2009) |