Peer Bork
Head of Unit, Senior Scientist and Strategic Head
Structural and Computational Biology Unit
EMBLEM Technology
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Biography
Biography PhD 1990, University of Leipzig. Habilitation 1995, Humboldt University, Berlin. At EMBL since 1991. Head of Unit since 2001. Strategic Head of Bioinformatics at EMBL Heidelberg since 2011. Group leader in the Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit. ERC Advanced Investigator.
Research Interest
Overview on Research in the Structural and Computational Biology Unit Structural Biology Barabas Group Mechanism, regulation, and application of mobile DNA Beck Group Structure and function of large macromolecular assemblies Briggs Group Viruses and vesicles – cryo-electron microscopy and tomography Gavin Group Biochemical networks in health and diseases Hennig Group Integrated structural biology of translation regulation mechanisms Lemke Group High resolution studies of protein plasticity Mahamid Group In situ structural analysis of phase separation and molecular crowding Müller Group Molecular mechanisms of transcriptional regulation in eukaryotes Sachse Group Single-particle electron cryomicroscopy of the autophagy machinery Computational Biology Alexandrov Team Spatial metabolomics Bork Group Deciphering function and evolution of biological systems Gibson Team Biological sequence analysis Patil Group Architecture and regulation of metabolic networks
