Perelman School of Medicine/ Faculty Search/ Carsten G. Bonnemann

Carsten G. Bonnemann, M .D.

Adjunct Associate Professor of Neurology

Department: Neurology

Contact information

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
34th & Civic Center Boulevard
Abramson Research Center, #516 I
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Office: 215-590-7490
Fax: 215-590-3709

Email:
Bonnemann@email.chop.edu

Links
Developmental Biology Program for Pediatrics Development at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The website gives you a overview of the faculty, up coming seminar series information, journals, cores, links, and other resources.

Education:
MD
Medical school at Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany, 1988.

Doctor of Medicine, "Summa cum laude"., 1989.

“Habilitation” in Pediatrics, University of Göttingen , 2001.

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Description of Research Expertise

Molecular genetics and cell biology of early onset myopathies, congenital muscular dystrophies and limb girdle muscular dystrophies

Description of Clinical Expertise

Neuromuscular disorders of childhood, in particular congenital myopathies and congenital muscular dystrophies.
Neurogenetic disorders of childhood.

Selected Publications

J. Kirschner, I. Hausser, G. Schreiber, H.-J. Christen, S. Brown, I. Anton-Lamprecht, F. Muntoni, F. Hanefeld, C.G. Bönnemann: Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy: Ultrastructural abnormalities of skin biopsies resemble Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Am J Med Genet 132A: 296-301, 2005.

C.G. Bönnemann, K. Brockmann, F. Hanefeld: Muscle ultrasound in Bethlem myopathy. Neuropediatrics 34: 335-336, 2003.

T.C. Pan, R.Z. Zhang, D.G. Sudano, S.K. Marie, C.G. Bönnemann, M.L. Chu: New molecular mechanism for Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy: A heterozygous in-frame deletion in the COL6A1 gene causes a severe phenotype. Am J Hum Genet, in press 2003.

C.G. Bönnemann, T.G. Thompson, P.F.M. v.d. Ven, H.H. Goebel, I. Warlo, B. Vollmers, J. Reimann, J. Herms, M. Gautel, F. Takada, A.H. Beggs, D.O. Fürst, L.M. Kunkel, F. Hanefeld, R. Schröder: Filamin C accumulation together with alphaB-crystallin is a strong but nonspecific immunohistochemical marker of core formation in muscle. J Neurol Sci 206: 71-78, 2003.

J. Kirschner and C.G. Bönnemann: The congenital and limb girdle muscular dystrophies: Sharpening the focus, blurring the bounderies, forthcoming Arch Neurol 61: 189-199, 2004.

C.G. Bönnemann and K.M.D. Bushby: The limb girdle muscular dystrophies. Myology, 3rd edition A. Engel and C. Franzini-Armstrong (eds.). McGraw Hill, 2004.

C.G. Bönnemann: The limb girdle muscular dystrophies. Neuromuscular Disorders of Infancy and Childhood: A Clinician’s Approach. H. Royden Jones, Jr, D.C. De Vivo, B.T. Darras (eds.). Butterworth-Heinemann, Woburn, 2003.

Gussoni, R.R. Bennet, K.R. Muskiewicz, T. Meyerrose, J.A. Nolta, I. Gilgoff, J. Stein, Y. Chan, H.G. Lidov, C.G. Bönnemann, A.v. Moers, G.E. Morris, J.d. Dunnen, J.S. Chamberlain, L.M. Kunkel, K. Weinberg: Long-term persistence of donor nuclei in a Duchenne muscular dystrophy patient receiving bone marrow transplantation. J. Clin Invest 110: 807-814, 2002.

A. Ferreiro, B. Estournet, S. Quijano-Roy, B. Moghadazadeh, C. Pichereau, N. Goemans, , C. Bönnemann, H. Jungbluth, V. Straub, M. Villanova, J.-P. Leray, N.B. Romero, J.-J. Martin, F. Muntoni, T. Voit, M. Faredeau, P. Guicheney: Mutations of SEPN1, implicated in rigid spine muscular dystrophy, cause the classical phenotype of multi-minicore disease. Am J Hum Genet 71: 739-749, 2002.