Chaperone-Substrate Interactions

Dr Stefan Rüdiger

Assistant Professor

Cellular Protein Chemistry Kruytgebouw, Room O-701 Padualaan 8 3584CH Utrecht The Netherlands +31 30 2533394 (phone) +31 30 2540890 (fax) s.g.d.rudiger[insert at-symbol here]uu.nl

• Curriculum Vitae
  Chemistry studies at Heidelberg University. Thesis work with Professor Bernd Bukau at the ZMBH at Heidelberg University and at the Institut for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Freiburg University, Germany. Research fellow with Professor Sir Alan Fersht at the Cambridge Centre for Protein Engineering and Cambridge University, United Kingdom, supported by an EMBO Long-Term-Fellowship and a Marie-Curie Fellowship. Byk-Gulden Award 2001 of the GBM (German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology). Since September 2004 scientific independence as Assistant Professor at the Department of Cellular Protein Chemistry at Utrecht University. In 2005 Marie-Curie Excellence Grant of the European Union and VIDI grant of the Nederlands Science Organisation NWO. In 2006 the High Potential of Utrecht University.
  
• Selection of Publications

Chaperones and protein folding: an introduction

• Research topics
  Substrate recognition of molecular chaperones
  Mechanisms of chaperone-assisted protein folding
  Structural Properties of chaperone substrates
• Prediction of binding sites of the Hsp70 chaperone DnaK

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• VACANCIES
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Structural Biology of Hsp90