Curriculum Vitae PD Dr. Jochen Reinstein
Academic Education and Occupancies
- Feb. 2005: venia legendi in “Biochemistry/Biophysics”, University Heidelberg, Faculty of Biological Sciences.
- since Dec. 2003: research group leader, Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research, Department of Biomolecular Mechanisms Heidelberg, Germany.
- 2000: Habilitation with venia legendi in “Physiological Chemistry”, University Bochum, Medical Faculty.
- 1994-2003: group leader, Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Physiologie, Dormund Germany, Dept. of Physical Biochemistry.
- 1992-1994: group leader. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Medizinische Forschung, Heidelberg Germany, Dept. of Biophysics.
- 1990-1992: Postdoctoral fellow, Brandeis University (Waltham MA), Department of Biochemistry with William P. Jencks.
- 1986-1990: Dissertation (Ph. D.) Max-Planck-Institut für medizinische Forschung, Heidelberg Germany, Dept. of Biophysics.
- 1980 – 1986: Study of Biology (Diploma) at the Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg.
Research Interests / techniques applied
Virus Capsid assembly and processing, molecular chaperones, protein folding, ATP driven motors and switches, enzyme mechanism, transient kinetics, spectroscopy, protein chemistry and analytics, biophysics and biochemistry, structural biology, complex systems.