Proteins are Nanomachines
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| Admission free |
| Ticket: Book your ticket in advance online or at the box office in the Foyer. |
| Planning: Duration: 60 min |
| Suitable for: 14 years and older |
| Which languages: German |
| Venue: Humboldt Lab, 1st floor |
| Group size: max. 25 persons |
| Part of: Meet the Scientist |
Proteins are essential building blocks of life. In fact, they are veritable “nanomachines” that need not fear comparison with the machines of our everyday life: As flexible turbines, pumps and channels, they are responsible for numerous processes in cells.
However, the biological activity of proteins only becomes apparent when they are studied on the nanometer scale. Thanks to modern biophysical methods, their complex and fascinating mode of action can now be understood at the atomic level.
In the series “Meet the Scientist”, the renowned biophysicist Joachim Heberle shows how scientists conduct research on proteins. He explains how their work provides important impulses for understanding diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s and contributes to the development of new drugs.
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Joachim Heberle studied chemistry in Stuttgart and Würzburg. After receiving his doctorate from the Freie Universität of Berlin in 1991, he spent three years as a postdoc at the Hahn-Meitner Institute before becoming a group leader at the Research Center Jülich. His habilitation in biophysical chemistry took place in 1998 at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. A professorship in Bielefeld was followed by a call to Freie Universität Berlin, where he has held the Chair of Experimental Molecular Biophysics since 2009. Since 2021, he has been the Central Ombudsperson of Freie Universität.
