Graduated in June 2010


Doctoral Thesis
Black lipid membranes studied by x-ray phase contrast imaging


Doctoral Thesis Committee

• Salditt, Tim, Prof. Dr. - X-Ray Physics (Uni-Phy)


• Steinem, Claudia, Prof. Dr. - Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry (Uni-Che)


• Grubmüller, Helmut, Prof. Dr. - Theoretical and Computer-based Biophysics (MPI-bpc)

University Education

• 07/2007-06/2010 University of Göttingen / GGNB program Physics of Biological and Complex Systems


• 10/2002-01/2007 Georg August University Göttingen, Diplom,. Physics, thesis: "Planare, freistehende Lipidmembranen für die Röntgenstrukturanalyse"

Publications

• Schneggenburger PE, Beerlink A, Weinhausen B, Salditt T, Diederichsen U. Peptide model helices in lipid membranes: insertion, positioning, and lipid response on aggregation studied by X-ray scattering. Eur. Biophys. J. 2011 Apr;40(4):417-36.


• Giewekemeyer K , Thibault P, Kalbfleisch S, Beerlink A, Kewish CM, Dierolf M, Pfeiffer F, Salditt T. Quantitative biological imaging by ptychographic x-ray diffraction microscopy. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2010 Jan 12;107(2):529-34.


• Schneggenburger PE, Beerlink A, Worbs B, Salditt T, Diederichsen U. A Novel Heavy-Atom Label for Side-Specific Peptide Iodination: Synthesis, Membrane Incorporation and X-ray Reflectivity. ChemPhysChem. 2009 Jul 13;10(9-10):1567-76.


• Beerlink A, Mell M, Tolkiehn M, Salditt T. Hard x-ray phase contrast imaging of black lipid membranes. Appl. Phys. Lett. 2009;95(20): 203703.


• Beerlink A, Wilbrandt PJ, Ziegler E, Carbone D, Metzger TH, Salditt T. X-ray structure analysis of free-standing lipid membranes facilitated by micromachined apertures. Langmui. 2008 May 6;24(9):4952-8.

Fellowships, Awards, Memberships

• Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft


• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biophysik


• Biophysical Society