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Bernt Popp

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Dr. med. Bernt Popp

Curriculum Vitae

As a physician and scientist I am currently working at the BIH at Charité Berlin and at Labor Berlin — Charité Vivantes GmbH.

From a human genetics perspective, my scientific interests are in rare diseases of neuronal development, rare tumors and the kidney. I particularly enjoy working bioinformatically on the analysis of data from high-throughput sequencing and on the curation of genetic diseases, variants and genes.

My current scientific focus within the CADS research project is the development of digital tools to support clinical decision-making and the analysis of genetic data, particularly in the field of nephrological diseases. This includes the development of algorithms for the detection of genetic variants and the integration of patient data to improve the treatment of rare kidney diseases.

Academic and medical-clinical career

Project lead Innovation in Human Genetics (Senior physician equivalent) at Labor Berlin — Charité Vivantes GmbH (50%)

Labor Berlin — Charité Vivantes GmbH

Berlin, Germany

since 01/2023

Department of Human Genetics at Labor Berlin — Charité Vivantes GmbH

Senior physician and Postdoc at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (50%)

Berlin Institute of Health (BIH)

Berlin, Germany

since 07/2022

Translational Research Area - Research Group “Hypertension and Molecular Biology of Endocrine Tumors” (Prof. Dr. med. Ute Scholl)

Habilitation started

at the Institute of Human Genetics, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany

Leipzig, Germany

ab 09/2022

Title “Sequencing and Gene Curartion in Rare Disease”

Senior physician and head of the genetics outpatient clinic at MVZ Dresden

Medizinisches Versorgungszentrum des Universitätsklinikums Dresden

Dresden, Germany

04/2022 - 07/2021

Head of the genetic outpatient clinic as senior physician

Specialist in Human Genetics

at the Institute of Human Genetics, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany

Leipzig, Germany

06/2021 - 04/2021

Deputy Team Leader Genetic Diagnostics - Clinical Genomics

Recognition as a specialist in Human Genetics

Completed specialist training and examination by the Saxony State Medical Association

Dresden, Germany

03/2021

Allowed to use the title “Specialist in Human Genetics” (German: “Facharzt für Humangenetik”)

DFG (German Research Foundation) rotation position

Scientific-medical assistant at the Human Genetics Institute of the University Hospital Leipzig

Leipzig, Germany

since 01/2020

Within the funds raised for the project “Exome Pool-Seq and systems biology approach to identify and characterize genes and networks in neurodevelopmental disorders”

Resident

at the Institute of Human Genetics, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany

Leipzig, Germany

03/2021 - 06/2019

Training as a specialist in human genetics

Clinical year

as an assistant physician in the field of nephrology at the Clinic and Polyclinic for Endocrinology, Nephrology, Rheumatology at the University Hospital Leipzig

Leipzig, Germany

09/2020 - 09/2019

Training as a specialist in human genetics

Resident and scientific-medical assistant

at the Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany

Erlangen, Germany

05/2019 - 02/2013

Training as a specialist in human genetics

Dissertation Dr. med.

Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany

Erlangen, Germany

11/2015 - 02/2013

Title of the dissertation „De novo missense mutations in the NAA10 gene cause severe non-syndromic developmental delay in males and females” (summa cum laude)

License as physician (Appropation)

after completing medical studies at the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg

Erlangen, Germany

11/2012

Education

Part-time study Bachelor of Science Computer Science

at the state distance-learning university FernUniversität in Hagen

Hagen, Germany

10/2021 - 10/2019

Medical School

FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (Staatsexamen)

Erlangen, Germany

11/2012 - 10/2005

General university entrance qualification (Allgemeine Hochschulreife)

Peter-Vischer-Gymnasium, Nuremberg

Nuremberg, Germany

06/2005 - 09/1996

Member of professional associations

Publications

Only first and last author positions (including equal contributions) are listed here. A complete and always up-to-date list can be found at Google Scholar.

Bartolomaeus, T., Hentschel, J., Jamra, R. A., & Popp, B. (2023). Re-evaluation and re-analysis of 152 research exomes five years after the initial report reveals clinically relevant changes in 18%. European Journal of Human Genetics, 31(10), 1154–1164. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41431-023-01425-6
Bosch, E., Popp, B., Güse, E., Skinner, C., Van Der Sluijs, P. J., Maystadt, I., Pinto, A. M., Renieri, A., Bruno, L. P., Granata, S., Marcelis, C., Baysal, Ö., Hartwich, D., Holthöfer, L., Isidor, B., Cogne, B., Wieczorek, D., Capra, V., Scala, M., De Marco, P., Ognibene, M., Abou Jamra, R., Platzer, K., Carter, L. B., Kuismin, O., Van Haeringen, A., Maroofian, R., Valenzuela, I., Cuscó, I., Martinez-Agosto, J. A., Rabani, A. M., Mefford, H. C., Pereira, E. M., Close, C., Anyane-Yeboa, K., Wagner, M., Hannibal, M. C., Zacher, P., Thiffault, I., Beunders, G., Umair, M., Bhola, P. T., McGinnis, E., Millichap, J., Van De Kamp, J. M., Prijoles, E. J., Dobson, A., Shillington, A., Graham, B. H., Garcia, E.-J., Kelly Galindo, M., Ropers, F. G., Nibbeling, E. Ar., Hubbard, G., Karimov, C., Goj, G., Bend, R., Rath, J., Morrow, M. M., Millan, F., Salpietro, V., Torella, A., Nigro, V., Kurki, M., Stevenson, R. E., Santen, G. W. E., Zweier, M., Campeau, P. M., Severino, M., Reis, A., Accogli, A., & Vasileiou, G. (2023). Elucidating the clinical and molecular spectrum of SMARCC2-associated NDD in a cohort of 65 affected individuals. Genetics in Medicine, 100950. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gim.2023.100950
Lehmann, C., Pehnke, S., Weimann, A., Bachmann, A., Dittrich, K., Petzold, F., Fürst, D., De Fallois, J., Landgraf, R., Henschler, R., Lindner, T. H., Halbritter, J., Doxiadis, I., Popp, B., & Münch, J. (2023). Extended genomic HLA typing identifies previously unrecognized mismatches in living kidney transplantation. Frontiers in Immunology, 14, 1094862. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1094862
Popp, B., Brugger, M., Poschmann, S., Bartolomaeus, T., Radtke, M., Hentschel, J., Di Donato, N., Rump, A., Gburek‐Augustat, J., Graf, E., Wagner, M., Sorge, I., Lemke, J. R., Meitinger, T., Abou Jamra, R., Strehlow, V., & Brunet, T. (2023). The constitutional gain‐of‐function variant p.Glu1099Lys in NSD2 is associated with a novel syndrome. Clinical Genetics, 103(2), 226–230. https://doi.org/10.1111/cge.14241
Roessler, F., Beck, A. E., Susie, B., Tobias, B., Begtrup, A., Biskup, S., Caluseriu, O., Delanty, N., Fröhlich, C., Greally, M. T., Karnstedt, M., Klöckner, C., Kurtzberg, J., Schubert, S., Schulze, M., Weidenbach, M., Westphal, D. S., White, M., Wolf, C. M., Zyskind, J., Popp, B., & Strehlow, V. (2023). Genetic and phenotypic spectrum in the NONO‐associated syndromic disorder. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, 191(2), 469–478. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.a.63044
Klau, J., Abou Jamra, R., Radtke, M., Oppermann, H., Lemke, J. R., Beblo, S., & Popp, B. (2022). Exome first approach to reduce diagnostic costs and time – retrospective analysis of 111 individuals with rare neurodevelopmental disorders. European Journal of Human Genetics, 30(1), 117–125. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41431-021-00981-z
Lieberwirth, J. K., Büttner, B., Klöckner, C., Platzer, K., Popp, B., & Abou Jamra, R. (2022). AutoCaSc: Prioritizing candidate genes for neurodevelopmental disorders. Human Mutation, 43(12), 1795–1807. https://doi.org/10.1002/humu.24451
Münch, J., Engesser, M., Schönauer, R., Hamm, J. A., Hartig, C., Hantmann, E., Akay, G., Pehlivan, D., Mitani, T., Coban Akdemir, Z., Tüysüz, B., Shirakawa, T., Dateki, S., Claus, L. R., Van Eerde, A. M., Smol, T., Devisme, L., Franquet, H., Attié-Bitach, T., Wagner, T., Bergmann, C., Höhn, A. K., Shril, S., Pollack, A., Wenger, T., Scott, A. A., Paolucci, S., Buchan, J., Gabriel, G. C., Posey, J. E., Lupski, J. R., Petit, F., McCarthy, A. A., Pazour, G. J., Lo, C. W., Popp, B., & Halbritter, J. (2022). Biallelic pathogenic variants in roundabout guidance receptor 1 associate with syndromic congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract. Kidney International, 101(5), 1039–1053. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.kint.2022.01.028
Neuser, S., Krey, I., Schwan, A., Abou Jamra, R., Bartolomaeus, T., Döring, J., Syrbe, S., Plassmann, M., Rohde, S., Roth, C., Rehder, H., Radtke, M., Le Duc, D., Schubert, S., Bermúdez-Guzmán, L., Leal, A., Schoner, K., & Popp, B. (2022). Prenatal phenotype of PNKP-related primary microcephaly associated with variants affecting both the FHA and phosphatase domain. European Journal of Human Genetics, 30(1), 101–110. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41431-021-00982-y
Popp, B., Bienvenu, T., Giurgea, I., Metreau, J., Kraus, C., Reis, A., Fischer, J., Bralo, M. P., Tenorio‐Castaño, J., Lapunzina, P., Almoguera, B., Lopez‐Grondona, F., Sticht, H., & Zweier, C. (2022). The recurrent TCF4 missense variant p.(Arg389Cys) causes a neurodevelopmental disorder overlapping with but not typical for PittHopkins syndrome. Clinical Genetics, 102(6), 517–523. https://doi.org/10.1111/cge.14206
Popp, B., Ekici, A. B., Knaup, K. X., Schneider, K., Uebe, S., Park, J., Bafna, V., Meiselbach, H., Eckardt, K.-U., Schiffer, M., Reis, A., Kraus, C., & Wiesener, M. (2022). Prevalence of hereditary tubulointerstitial kidney diseases in the German Chronic Kidney Disease study. European Journal of Human Genetics, 30(12), 1413–1422. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41431-022-01177-9
Neuser, S., Brechmann, B., Heimer, G., Brösse, I., Schubert, S., O’Grady, L., Zech, M., Srivastava, S., Sweetser, D. A., Dincer, Y., Mall, V., Winkelmann, J., Behrends, C., Darras, B. T., Graham, R. J., Jayakar, P., Byrne, B., Bar‐Aluma, B. E., Haberman, Y., Szeinberg, A., Aldhalaan, H. M., Hashem, M., Al Tenaiji, A., Ismayl, O., Al Nuaimi, A. E., Maher, K., Ibrahim, S., Khan, F., Houlden, H., Ramakumaran, V. S., Pagnamenta, A. T., Posey, J. E., Lupski, J. R., Tan, W., ElGhazali, G., Herman, I., Muñoz, T., Repetto, G. M., Seitz, A., Krumbiegel, M., Poli, M. C., Kini, U., Efthymiou, S., Meiler, J., Maroofian, R., Alkuraya, F. S., Abou Jamra, R., Popp, B., Ben‐Zeev, B., & Ebrahimi‐Fakhari, D. (2021). Clinical, neuroimaging, and molecular spectrum of TECPR2 ‐associated hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy with intellectual disability. Human Mutation, 42(6), 762–776. https://doi.org/10.1002/humu.24206
Popp, B., Erber, R., Kraus, C., Vasileiou, G., Hoyer, J., Burghaus, S., Hartmann, A., Beckmann, M. W., Reis, A., & Agaimy, A. (2020). Targeted sequencing of FH-deficient uterine leiomyomas reveals biallelic inactivating somatic fumarase variants and allows characterization of missense variants. Modern Pathology, 33(11), 2341–2353. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41379-020-0596-y
Hebebrand, M., Hüffmeier, U., Trollmann, R., Hehr, U., Uebe, S., Ekici, A. B., Kraus, C., Krumbiegel, M., Reis, A., Thiel, C. T., & Popp, B. (2019). The mutational and phenotypic spectrum of TUBA1A-associated tubulinopathy. Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 14(1), 38. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13023-019-1020-x
Hebebrand, M., Vasileiou, G., Krumbiegel, M., Kraus, C., Uebe, S., Ekici, A. B., Thiel, C. T., Reis, A., & Popp, B. (2019). A biallelic truncating AEBP1 variant causes connective tissue disorder in two siblings. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, 179(1), 50–56. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.a.60679
Popp, B., Agaimy, A., Kraus, C., Knaup, K. X., Ekici, A. B., Uebe, S., Reis, A., Wiesener, M., & Zweier, C. (2019). Dissecting TSC2-mutated renal and hepatic angiomyolipomas in an individual with ARID1B-associated intellectual disability. BMC Cancer, 19(1), 435. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-019-5633-1
Vasileiou, G., Hoyer, J., Thiel, C. T., Schaefer, J., Zapke, M., Krumbiegel, M., Kraus, C., Zweier, M., Uebe, S., Ekici, A. B., Schneider, M., Wiesener, M., Rauch, A., Faschingbauer, F., Reis, A., Zweier, C., & Popp, B. (2019). Prenatal diagnosis of HNF1B ‐associated renal cysts: Is there a need to differentiate intragenic variants from 17q12 microdeletion syndrome? Prenatal Diagnosis, 39(12), 1136–1147. https://doi.org/10.1002/pd.5556
Popp, B., Krumbiegel, M., Grosch, J., Sommer, A., Uebe, S., Kohl, Z., Plötz, S., Farrell, M., Trautmann, U., Kraus, C., Ekici, A. B., Asadollahi, R., Regensburger, M., Günther, K., Rauch, A., Edenhofer, F., Winkler, J., Winner, B., & Reis, A. (2018). Need for high-resolution Genetic Analysis in iPSC: Results and Lessons from the ForIPS Consortium. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 17201. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-35506-0
Popp, B., Ekici, A. B., Thiel, C. T., Hoyer, J., Wiesener, A., Kraus, C., Reis, A., & Zweier, C. (2017). Exome Pool-Seq in neurodevelopmental disorders. European Journal of Human Genetics, 25(12), 1364–1376. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41431-017-0022-1
Popp, B., Trollmann, R., Büttner, C., Caliebe, A., Thiel, C. T., Hüffmeier, U., Reis, A., & Zweier, C. (2016). Do the exome: A case of Williams-Beuren syndrome with severe epilepsy due to a truncating de novo variant in GABRA1. European Journal of Medical Genetics, 59(10), 549–553. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmg.2016.09.002
Popp, B., Støve, S. I., Endele, S., Myklebust, L. M., Hoyer, J., Sticht, H., Azzarello-Burri, S., Rauch, A., Arnesen, T., & Reis, A. (2015). De novo missense mutations in the NAA10 gene cause severe non-syndromic developmental delay in males and females. European Journal of Human Genetics, 23(5), 602–609. https://doi.org/10.1038/ejhg.2014.150