Wednesday, 09 September, 2020

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Dr. Amelie Heuer-Jungemann becomes extraordinary CeNs member

 

Amelie Heuer-Jungemann is a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried within the Department of Molecular Medicine. After studying Chemistry with Biochemistry at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, she then moved to the University of Southampton in 2011 to pursue a PhD in Physics (“Nanoparticle-DNA Conjugates for Biomedical Applications”). She subsequently received an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship allowing her to carry out independent research for one year as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southampton (2015-2016). Afterwards she took up a postdoctoral position at the LMU in the group of Tim Liedl  (2016-2020). In 2020 she was awarded an Emmy Noether starting grant by the DFG. Her research group “DNA hybrid nanomaterials” uses DNA origami nanostructures to decipher complex cellular signalling cascades and investigates the interactions of DNA origami-templated Silica nanostructures with cells for downstream biomedical applications as well as using such DNA-Silica hybrid nanostructures for the creation of highly efficient enzyme cascades.

Website: www.biochem.mpg.de/de/heuer-jungemann