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Institute of
Immunology, University of Cologne , Cologne, Germany
July 1990 - September 1990: Immunochemical and biochemical
studies of Phenacoccus hystrix
cocoon under Professor G. Uhlenbruck.
Max
Planck-Institute of Plant Breeding Research
, Cologne, Germany
June 1993 - August 1993: Site-directed mutagenesis of a
plant b-glucosidase under Dr. B. Brzobohaty and Dr. K.
Palme.
Imperial College of Science,
Technology and Medicine , London,
UK
October 1993 – October 1994: Studies on a functional role of
cytochrome b559 under Professor J. Barber. Accepted by the University of
Cologne as Diploma thesis.
Institute for Organic Chemistry,
University of Cologne, Cologne,
Germany
April 1995 - May 1995: NMR analysis of porphyrin
compounds under Dr. H. Schmickler.
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
February 1996 – September 2000:
Ph.D. thesis under Professor H. Gobind Khorana on the
mechanism of visual signal transduction by rhodopsin. The tertiary
structure of the cytoplasmic face of rhodopsin and its changes upon
light-activation were explored.
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology , Cambridge,
MA, USA
September 2000 – May 2001: Postdoctoral
Associate with Professor Harald Schwalbe on NMR structural studies of
protein folding mechanisms. Signal transduction by the T cell receptor
in collaboration with Professor Larry Stern.
Carnegie
Mellon University , Pittsburgh,
PA, USA
June 2001 – November 2001: Postdoctoral
Associate with Professor Raj Reddy on Computational Language Modeling of
Biological Sequence Data.
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