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Franka Voigt's Biography



Franka Voigt, Postdoctoral Fellow, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel

I am currently a Postdoctoral researcher in the group of Dr. Jeffrey Chao, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland. From 2014 – 2015 I was a Postdoctoral researcher in the group of Dr. Orsolya Barabas, Structural & Computational Biology Unit, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany. From 2010 – 2014 I studied a Joint PhD from EMBL and Heidelberg University. The PhD thesis was under the supervision of Dr. Orsolya Barabas, Structural & Computational Biology Unit, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany. In 2010 I completed a Diploma in biology (major biochemistry) at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany. Diploma thesis under supervision of Prof. R. Ficner, Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Göttingen Centre of Molecular Biosciences, University of Göttingen, Germany.

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Structure-based Engineering for the Advancement of Transposon Tools: The Case of Sleeping Beauty

Thursday, 8 October 2015 at 10:00

Add to Calendar ▼2015-10-08 10:00:002015-10-08 11:00:00Europe/LondonStructure-based Engineering for the Advancement of Transposon Tools: The Case of Sleeping BeautyGenome Engineering in Hanover, GermanyHanover, GermanySELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com

The Sleeping Beauty transposon provides a powerful genetic engineering tool with applications including human gene therapy. In this talk, I will present structural and functional data providing insights into its mechanism and allowing us to engineer novel hyperactive transposase variants.


Add to Calendar ▼2015-10-07 00:00:002015-10-08 00:00:00Europe/LondonGenome EngineeringGenome Engineering in Hanover, GermanyHanover, GermanySELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com