Dr. rer. nat. Carina Frauer

Curriculum Vitae

2007 - 2010	Doctoral Thesis at the LMU Munich Supervisor: Prof. Heinrich Leonhardt
2007	Member of Mark Helm’s group at the IPMB, Heidelberg
2006	Research visit at the Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire IBMC), Strasbourg as part of the master thesis project (Florentz lab)
2006	Master of Science in Molecular Biotechnology, Institute for Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology (IPMB), Heidelberg
	Topic of Master Thesis: “Impact of single base modifications on tRNA structure and function in vitro.”
2006	Research visit in Yale, New Haven, CT, USA. “Identity elements of tRNAPyl.” Supervised by Alexandre Ambrogelly (Söll Lab).
2004 - 2005	ERASMUS student at the University of Montpellier, France
2004 - 2006	Graduate student of Molecular Biotechnology (M.Sc.) at Heidelberg University
2001 - 2004	Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biotechnology at the Heidelberg University
	Bachelor Thesis in bioinformatics at the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Heidelberg. „Modulation of signal transduction with scale-free networks.” Supervised by Rainer König (Eils Lab)

Dissertation

Studies of Mechanisms controlling DNA Methyltransferase 1
Dissertation, LMU Munich (2010) Thesis...

Publications

A. Kirchhofer, J. Helma, K. Schmidthals, C. Frauer, S. Cui, A. Karcher, M. Pellis, S. Muyldermans, C. S. Casas-Delucchi, M. C. Cardoso, H. Leonhardt, KP Hopfner, U. Rothbauer:
Modulation of protein properties in living cells using nanobodies
NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 17 (1): 133-U162 (2010)

A. Ambrogelly, S. Gundllapalli, S. Herring, C. Polycarpo, C. Frauer and D. Söll
Pyrrolysine is not hardwired for cotranslational insertion at UAG codons
PNAS 104(9): 3141-46 (2007).

M. Hengesbach, A. Kobitski, F. Voigts-Hoffmann, C. Frauer, G.U. Nienhaus and M. Helm
RNA intramolecular dynamics by single-molecule FRET.
Curr Protoc Nucleic Acid Chem Chapter 11: Unit 11.12