Dr. Karin Busch
Professor
Biology
University of Munster
Germany
Biography
1986-1995 Studies of biochemistry (biology), biology (diploma, state exams) and chemistry (state exams) at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen; 1996 Doctorate (magna cum laude) at the Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen Prof. Dr. Helga Ninnemann; 1997 - 1999 Postdoktorand at the Department of Plant Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel with Prof. Dr. Hillel Fromm; 1999-2000 postdoctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Munich, and Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen bei Dr. Stefan Schuster, Prof. Dr. Dieter Österhelt and Prof. Dr. Christiane Nüsslein-Vollhard; 2000-2003 postdoctoral student at the Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute of Biochemistry, with Prof. Dr. Robert Tampé; 2004 - 2007 Research associate at the Goethe University Frankfurt, Department of Cell Biology and Neurobiology, with Prof. Dr. Jürgen maker Hahn; 2008-2009 Independent junior research group "Cell Biology of higher eukaryotes" at the Department of Biology at the University of Osnabrück; 2009-2015 Assistant Professor "Mitochondrial Dynamics" at the Department of Biology / Chemistry at the University of Osnabrueck; Since April 2015 Professor "Zoology and Molecular Biology" at the Department of Biology WWU Münster
Research Interest
Physical and chemical principles of life; Cell biology; Human biology; Bioenergetics and energy metabolism; Advanced methods of microscopy; The central role of mitochondria in life, aging and dying of cell
Publications
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Rieger B, Young W, Bush K (2014) Lateral pH gradient between OXPHOS complex IV and F0F1 ATP synthase in folded mitochondrial membranes. Nature Communications 5.
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Sonel AC, Kohl W, Gregory I, Enderlein J, Rieger B, et al. (2016) Probing of protein localization and shuttling in mitochondrial microcompartments by FLIM with sub-diffraction resolution. Biochim Biophys Acta Bioenergetics Special Issue EBEC 1857: 1290-1299.
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Drees C, Raj AN, Kurre R, Busch KB, Haase M, Piehler J (2016) Engineered Upconversion Nanoparticles for Resolving Protein Interactions inside Living Cells. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 55: 11668-11672.
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Appelhans T, Busch K (2017) Single molecule tracking and localization of mitochondrial protein complexes in live cells. In Methods in Molecular Biology-Mitochondria, edited by Springer (Ed.): 273-291. New York: Humana Press Inc.
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Rieger B, Shalaeva D, Söhnel A, Kohl W, Duwe P, et al. (2017) Lifetime imaging of GFP at CoxVIIIa reports respiratory supercomplex assembly in live cells. Scientific Reports 7.