Assistant Professor
Research Group Leader
PhD
Email
My research interests are to better understand natural processes of bacterial community shaping. Bacterial communities are constantly shaped and rearranged by proteins and nucleic acids which are released by different members of the bacterial community. I would like to follow these processes, investigate the molecular mechanisms which influence the properties of bacterial communities, and examine whether bacterial communities could be rationally designed in similar ways.
Scientific Publications
Peptidoglycan maturation controls outer membrane protein assembly
Nature
2022
Colicin-mediated transport of DNA through the iron transporter FepA
mBio
2021
Imaging bacterial membrane vesicles with a delicate touch
Nature Reviews Microbiology
2021
Selecting for fast protein–protein association as demonstrated on a random TEM1 yeast library binding BLIP
Biochemistry
2018
Promiscuous protein binding as a function of protein stability
Structure
2017
Low-stringency selection of TEM1 for BLIP shows interface plasticity and selection for faster binders
PNAS
2016
Food selectivity and diet switch can explain the slow feeding of herbivorous coral-reef fishes during the morning
PLoS One
2013
Contrasting factors on the kinetic path to protein complex formation diminish the effects of crowding agents
Biophysical Journal
2012
FRETex: a FRET-based, high-throughput technique to analyze protein–protein interactions
PEDS
2012