Anja Böckmann#
Membership Number: | 5587 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
Elected: | 2021 |
Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Homepage(s): | https://mmsb.cnrs.fr/u/abockmann/ |
ORCID: | 0000-0001-8149-7941 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 - present CNRS Research Director (DR1) and PI, MMSB UMR 5086 CNRS/University Lyon 1, France
- 2017 DR1 CNRS
- 2016 Group leader of the Protein Solid-State NMR group, MMSB, Lyon, France
- 2011 Group leader of the NMR and HCV team together with Françcois Penin, BMSSI Lyon, France
- 2009 CNRS Researcher (DR2) in the research group of François Penin, IBCP Lyon, France
- 1998 CNRS Researcher (CR) in the research group of François Penin, IBCP Lyon, France
- 1996 - 1997 Post-doctoral fellow in the research group of Ann. E. McDermott, Columbia University, New York, USA
- 1993 - 1996 PhD Thesis in the research group of Eric Guittet, CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette, France (DAAD fellowship)
- 1992 - 1993 Diploma Thesis in the research group of Dieter Ziessow, TU Berlin, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Protein solid-state NMR-
- Solution NMR
- Structural studies of fibrillar proteins (yeast prions Ure2p and Sup35, as well as the amyloids A-β and α-synuclein)
- Studies large protein assemblies: viral capsids, ribonulceoprotein complexes (HBV, DENV, HDV)
- Molecular machines: DnaB helicase
- Structural studies of viral membrane proteins (SARS-CoV-2)
- Viral envelope proteins: hepatitis B virus, SARS-CoV-2
- Membrane proteins: ABC transporter BmrA
- Establishing solid-state NMR techniques: sequential assignment and distance measurements, protein structures by NMR
- Structural biology
Honours and Awards
- 1986 Award from the "Fonds der Chemischen Industrie"
- 1990 Award from the "Klaus Koch Stiftung" Berlin
- 1989 - 1990 ERASMUS fellowship
- 1993 Erwin Stephan award from the TU Berlin
- 1993 - 1996 PhD Fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
- 2007 Bronze Medal CNRS
- 2014 Prix Pierre Desnuelle of the French Académie des Sciences
- 2020 - 2023 Academic Guest ETH Zurich
- 2020 Elected Fellow by the International Society of Magnetic Resonance (ISMAR)