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Elia Agustoni

Resolved the dynamic activation mechanism of a hybrid histidine kinase

 

PhD Thesis 2023

Postdoctoral Fellow

2023 – now

Seyed Majed Modaresi

Identified dynobactin, a systemic antibiotic for Gram-negative bacteria

PhD Thesis 2023

Thomas Müntener

Shed light on the tremendous potential pseudocontact shifts have in structural biology

Research Associate

2022 – now

Morris Degen

Determined the structure of the NINJ1 filament that ruptures the plasma membrane in cell death

PhD Student

2022 – now

Anna Leder

PhD Student

2021 – now

Guillaume Mas

Unraveled a novel chaperone activation mechanism

 

  • MRC Young Scientist Award at EUROMAR 2019

Postdoctoral Fellow

2016 – now

Johanna Ude

Determined the transportome of bacterial porins

 

Now at LimmaTech Biologics

PhD Thesis 2021

Christopher Kolloff

Extended the theory of modeling sub-μs dynamics in spin relaxation

 

 

Now PhD student at Chalmers University

Master Thesis 2021

Joka Pipercevic

Discovered the true nature of the Colicin Ia membrane pore

 

Resolved a regulation mechanism of polyphosphate synthesis

 

Now at Solvias

PhD Thesis 2021

Hundeep Kaur

Resolved the mechanism of action of the antibiotic darobactin

 


Now group leader at Lonza

Postdoctoral Fellow

2018 – 2021

Parthasarathi Rath

Resolved the folding mechanism of OmpX into a lipid bilayer

 

Now Senior Research Scientist at AstraZeneca

Postdoctoral Fellow

2017 – 2022

Stefan Bibow

Determined membrane protein and lipid dynamics

 

 

Now Research Group Leader at Lonza

Postdoctoral Fellow

2017 – 2019

Jean-Baptiste Hartmann

World record: NMR assignments of the 42 kDa integral membrane protein BamA

 

Now at Celonic

PhD Thesis 2018

 

Raphael Böhm

Unravelled how mTORC1 phosphorylates 4E-BP1

 

Resolved the dynamic activation mechanism of a hybrid histidine kinase

 

Now Laboratory Head at NUVISAN Innovation Campus Berlin

Postdoctoral Fellow

2014 – 2020

Lichun He

Revealed that molecular chaperones recognize frustrated surfaces

 

Established dynamic interactions as the basis for chaperone promiscuousness

 

Now Professor at Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan

Postdoctoral Fellow

2014 – 2018

Lorenzo Sborgi

Structure determination of the inflammasome ASC filament


Reconstituted Gasdermin pore formation

 

  • SNI Nano Image Award 2017

 

Now Research Group Leader at CSL Behring

Postdoctoral Fellow

2013 – 2017

Leonor Morgado

Structure determination of the chaperone trigger factor dimer

 

 

Departed to Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Postdoctoral Fellow

2013 – 2017

 Björn Burmann

 

First complete description of structure and dynamics of a natural chaperone-client complex

 

Established client dynamics on chaperones Skp and SurA

 

Resolved regulation mechanism of α-synuclein by chaperones

 


Now Professor at Gothenborg University

Postdoctoral Fellow

2010 – 2017

Thomas Raschle

Determined the folding mechanism of OmpX in micelles


Departed to Creoptix, Wädenswil

Postdoctoral Fellow

2013 – 2015

Morgane Callon

Developed a method to map chaperone-client interfaces


Determined metabolic response to Shigella infection

 

 

Now postdoc at ETH Zurich

PhD Thesis 2015

Fabian Gruss

Determined the structure of the membrane protein insertase TamA

 

Departed to Leuven University

PhD Thesis 2015

Kornelius Zeth

Established NMR spectroscopy of BamA


Now Professor at Roskilde University

Postdoctoral Fellow

2012