Dr. Stefan Rudiger

Cellular Protein Chemistry  701  Department of Chemistry  Faculty of Science  Utrecht University  Padualaan 8  NL-3584 CH Utrecht  The Netherlands  T +31 30 253 3394  F +31 30 254 6900  E s.g.d.rudiger@uu.nl

Research topics

Chaperones and protein folding: an introduction

• 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

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.

2005 : Marie-Curie Excellence Grant of the European Union
          VIDI grant of the Nederlands Science Organisation NWO

Selection of publications