Dr. Sozanne R. Solmaz
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
Binghamton University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Solmaz received her M.S. degree in Biochemistry from the Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany in 2001, and performed her M.S. thesis work with Nobel laureate Robert Huber, Ph.D., at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany. She received her Ph.D. degree in 2006 from the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, for which she was a Ph.D. student with Nobel laureate Hartmut Michel, Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, supervised by Carola Hunte, Ph.D. As a Postdoctoral Researcher with Nobel laureate Gunter Blobel, Ph.D., at Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the Rockefeller University in New York, she has investigated the structure of the transport channel of the nuclear pore complex. Since fall 2014 she is an Assistant Professor in Biological Chemistry at Binghamton University.
Research Interest
Nuclear pore complexes and x-ray crystallography to visualize the protein components
Publications
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Solmaz SR, Blobel G, MelÄák I. Ring cycle for dilating and constricting the nuclear pore. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2013 Apr 9;110(15):5858-63.
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Sharma A, Solmaz SR, Blobel G, MelÄák I. Ordered regions of channel nucleoporins Nup62, Nup54, and Nup58 form dynamic complexes in solution. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2015 Jul 24;290(30):18370-8.
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Loftus KM, Cui H, Coutavas E, King DS, Ceravolo A, Pereiras D, Solmaz SR. Mechanism for G2 phase-specific nuclear export of the kinetochore protein CENP-F. Cell Cycle. 2017 Jul 20:1-6.
