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Professorin Dr. Petra Schwille

Address Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie
Forschungsgruppe Zelluläre und molekulare Biophysik
Am Klopferspitz 18
82152 Planegg

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - Elucidating the functional basis of membrane-transforming machineries by studying the archaeal ESCRTs (DIP Programme)
- Completed projects
  - Elucidating the intracellular mechanisms of RNA interference by single molecule fluorescence microscopy and spectroscopy (Priority Programmes)
  - New experimental concepts to study DNA dynamics in confined microstructures (Priority Programmes)
  - Investigating the relevance of lipid microdomains for (HI) virus protein assembly and virus budding in an artifical cell environment (Priority Programmes)
  - LIPIDPROD - Lipid-protein interactions in membrane organisation (Research Grants)
  - SynDiv - Synthetic Biology of the Bacterial Cell Division (Research Grants)
  - Characterization and membrane targeting of the Spir/formin action nucleator complex (Priority Programmes)
As Participating Researcher
- Completed projects
  - GRK 2062: Molecular Principlas of Synthetic Biology (Research Training Groups)
  - GSC 1006: Graduate School of Quantitative Biosciences Munich (QBM) (Graduate Schools)
  - EXC 114: Munich Center for Integrated Protein Science (CIPSM) (Clusters of Excellence)
As Project Head
- Current projects
  - Membranes as catalytic surfaces for prebiotic self-organization (CRC/Transregios)
- Completed projects
  - Development of an optical platform to characterize (surface-)binding reactions between glycosaminoglycans and mediators (CRC/Transregios)
  - Technology Platform (DFG Research Centres)
  - Investigating the role of local curvature in recruiting membrane sculpting proteins in vitro (CRC/Transregios)
  - In vitro reconstitution of nucleoid-guided cargo positioning by ParA ATPases (CRC/Transregios)
  - Designing a Contractile Ring for Large Membrane Compartments (Collaborative Research Centres)
  - Spatio-temporal positioning of nanoagents by protein self-organization (Collaborative Research Centres)
  - Constraining geochemical boundary conditions of Hadean hydrothermal systems and the implications for early life (CRC/Transregios)
  - Engineering minimal cell walls for the emergence of shape in protocells (CRC/Transregios)
As Participating Person
- Completed projects
  - Reconstitution of clathrin/AP-1 coated membrane microdomains on proteoliposomes (Research Grants)
  - Molecular and biophysical approaches to study insulin secretory granules and lipid microdomains in vitro and in living insulinoma cells (Research Grants)
  - Diffusion and conformational dynamics in locally perturbed model membrane systems (Research Units)

As Prizewinner
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Programm 2010

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Professorin Dr. Petra Schwille

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