Rate My Professor Christof Osman

Prior to his position at LMU, Osman was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, San Francisco. His influential publications include "Making heads or tails of phospholipids in mitochondria" (Journal of Cell Biology, 2011, 774 citations), "The conserved GTPase Gem1 regulates endoplasmic reticulum–mitochondria connections" (PNAS, 2011, 414 citations), "ER-associated mitochondrial division links the distribution of mitochondria and mitochondrial DNA in yeast" (eLife, 2013, 386 citations), "Integrity of the yeast mitochondrial genome, but not its distribution and inheritance, relies on mitochondrial fission and fusion" (PNAS, 2015), "Cristae-dependent quality control of the mitochondrial genome" (Science Advances, 2021), "Two mitochondrial HMG-box proteins, Cim1 and Abf2, antagonistically regulate mtDNA copy number in Saccharomyces cerevisiae" (Nucleic Acids Research, 2023), and recent works such as "Real-time assessment of mitochondrial DNA heteroplasmy dynamics at the single-cell level" (EMBO Journal, 2024) and "Local mitochondrial physiology defined by mtDNA quality guides purifying selection" (PLoS Genetics, 2026). With over 3,500 citations and research interests in cell biology, Osman's work has profoundly impacted the understanding of mitochondrial function and genome stability. He serves as a speaker and board member of the Graduate School Life Science Munich (LSM).