Dr. rer. nat. Gerke Damsma

Curriculum Vitae

since 2011	Postdoctoral Research at the LMU in the group of Prof. Jens Michaelis
since 2010	Postdoctoral Research at the LMU in the group of Prof. Patrick Cramer
2006 - 2010	Doctoral Thesis at the LMU München Supervisor: Prof. Patrick Cramer
2006	Master of Science in Biomolecular Sciencesat the University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Dissertation

Mechanisms of transcriptional stalling and mutagenesis at DNA lesions
Dissertation, LMU Munich (2010) Thesis...

Publications

G.E. Damsma, and P. Cramer:
Molecular basis of transcriptional mutagenesis at 8-oxoguanine.
J. Biol. Chem., Epub Sep 16

J.F. Sydow, F. Brueckner, A.C.M. Cheung, G.E. Damsma, S. Dengl, E.
Lehmann, D. Vassylyev, and P. Cramer:
Structural Basis of Transcription: Mismatch-Specific Fidelity Mechanisms
and Paused RNA Polymerase II with Frayed RNA.
Molecular Cell 34, 710-721 (2009)

F. Brueckner, K.J. Armache, A. Cheung, G.E. Damsma, H. Kettenberger, E.
Lehmann, J. Sydow, and P. Cramer:
Structure–function studies of the RNA polymerase II elongation complex.
Acta Cryst. D65, 112-120 (2009)

P. Cramer, K.J. Armache, S. Baumli, S. Benkert, F. Brueckner, C. Buchen, G.E. Damsma, S. Dengl, S.R. Geiger, A.J. Jasiak, A. Jawhari, S. Jennebach, T. Kamenski, H. Kettenberger, C.-D. Kuhn, E. Lehmann, K. Leike, J.F. Sydow, and A. Vannini:
Structure of Eukaryotic RNA Polymerases.
Annu. Rev. Biophys. 37, 337-352 (2008).

G. E. Damsma, A. Alt, F. Brueckner, T. Carell and P. Cramer
Mechanism of transcriptional stalling at cisplatin-damaged DNA
Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 14, 1127-33 (2007)