Group Leader
Panagiotis L. Kastritis, Jun.-Prof. Dr.
Specialist in Cryo-Electron Microscopy and Computational Structural Biology 2008 Diploma Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece 2012 Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands 2012-2013 Postdoc Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands 2013-2018 Postdoc European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany since August 2018 Jun.-Prof., Center for Innovation Competence HALOmem, Halle, Germany phone: +49 345 5524983, e-mail: panagiotis.kastritis(at)bct.uni-halle.de
Staff Scientists
Fotios Kyrilis, M.Sc. Molecular Medicine
Chief Biochemist/Laboratory Officer in Charge, Specialist in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry phone: +49 345 5524984, e-mail: fotios.kyrilis(at)bct.uni-halle.de
Dr. Farzad Hamdi, Ph.D.
Cryo-EM Engineer, Specialist in Electron Microscope Operation phone: +49 345 5524984, e-mail: farzad.hamdi(at)bct.uni-halle.de
Post-Docs
Dr. Annette Meister, PD, Ph.D.
Cryo-EM Application Specialist, Specialist in Cryo-Electron Microscopy and Physical Chemistry of Membranes phone: +49 345 5525826, e-mail: annette.meister(at)chemie.uni-halle.de
Dr. Dmitry A. Semchonok, Ph.D.
Cryo-EM and Image Processing Specialist phone: +49 345 5524985, e-mail: dmitry.semchonok(at)bct.uni-halle.de
Dr. Christian Tüting, Ph.D.
Biochemist & Computational Structural Biologist phone: +49 345 5524985, e-mail: christian.tueting(at)biochemtech.uni-halle.de
Dr. Jaydeep Belapure, Ph.D.
Image processing Specialist, Machine Learning for Cryo-EM phone: +49 345 5524985, e-mail: jaydeep.belapure(at)bct.uni-halle.de
Paola Modicano, M.Sc. Biology
Formulation and Polymer Scientist phone: +49 345 5524985, e-mail: paola.modicano(at)bct.uni-halle.de
Dr. Tommy Hofmann, Ph.D. (with Carla Schmidt group)
Mass spectrometrist/Lipidomics expert phone: +49 345 5524923, e-mail: tommy.hofmann(at)biochemtech.uni-halle.de
Ph.D. Candidates
Ioannis Skalidis, M.Sc. Systems Biology
Biochemistry and Cryo-EM Scientist phone: +49 345 5524986, e-mail: ioannis.skalidis(at)bct.uni-halle.de
Lisa Schmidt, M.Sc. Molecular Biology
Biochemist/Molecular Biologist phone: +49 345 5524986, e-mail: lisa.schmidt(at)bct.uni-halle.de
Kevin Janson, M.Sc. Biology
Membrane Biophysicist phone: +49 345 5524986, e-mail: kevin.janson(at)bct.uni-halle.de
Marija Sorokina, M.Sc. Chemistry
Computational Chemist phone: +49 345 5524986, e-mail: marija.sorokina@student.uni-halle.de
M.Sc. Students & Scientific Assistants
Toni Träger, B.Sc. Biochemistry
Biochemist phone: +49 345 5524986, e-mail: toni.traeger@student.uni-halle.de