Elia Agustoni

Resolved the dynamic activation mechanism of a hybrid histidine kinase

• Best Talk, 35^th Rhine-Knee Regional Meeting on Structural Biology 2022

PhD Thesis 2023

Anna Leder

• Best Master Thesis in Nano Sciences 2021, University of Basel

PhD Student

2021 –

Johanna Ude

Determined the transportome of bacterial porins

PhD Thesis 2021

Joka Pipercevic

Discovered the true nature of the Colicin Ia membrane pore

PhD Thesis 2021

Seyed Majed Modaresi

Identified dynobactin, a systemic antibiotic for Gram-negative bacteria

PhD Student

2019 –

Hundeep Kaur

Resolved the mechanism of action of the antibiotic darobactin

• Best Talk, Biozentrum Symposium 2020
• Prize for Best Poster, Biozentrum Symposium 2020

Now group leader at Lonza

Postdoctoral Fellow

2018 – 2021

Parthasarathi Rath

Resolved the folding mechanism of OmpX into a lipid bilayer

• University of Basel Research Grant 2019

Postdoctoral Fellow

2017 – now

Guillaume Mas

Unraveled a novel chaperone activation mechanism

• MRC Young Scientist Award at EUROMAR 2019

Postdoctoral Fellow

2016 – now

Stefan Bibow

Determined membrane protein and lipid dynamics

• Ambizione Fellowship 2016

Departed to Lonza

Postdoctoral Fellow

2017 – 2019

Jean-Baptiste Hartmann

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

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

Departed to CSL Behring

Postdoctoral Fellow

2013 – 2017

Leonor Morgado

Structure determination of the chaperone trigger factor dimer

• University of Basel Research Grant 2016

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

• Ambizione Fellowship 2013
• MRC Young Scientist Award at EUROMAR 2014
• ISMAR Anatole Abragam Award 2017

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

• Gottfried Schatz PhD Student Prize 2016

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