Graduated in December 2009


Doctoral Thesis
New insights into SNARE-mediated fusion: Detection of single proteoliposomes with a confocal microscope


Doctoral Thesis Committee

• Walla, Peter Jomo, Dr. - Label-free Biomolecular Analysis and Single-Molecule Detection (MPI-bpc)


• Jahn, Reinhard, Prof. Dr. - Neurobiology (MPI-bpc)


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

University Education

• 09/2006-12/2009 Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry / University of Göttingen / GGNB program Physics of Biological and Complex Systems


• 10/2000-06/2006 Technical University Braunschweig, Germany, Diplom, Chemistry, thesis: "Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy for the investigation of SNARE protein interactions"

Publications

• Cypionka A, Stein A, Hernandez JM, Hippchen H, Jahn R, Walla PJ. Discrimination between docking and fusion of liposomes reconstituted with neuronal SNARE-proteins using FCS. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2009 Nov 3;106(44):18575-80.