Christoph Müller#
| Membership Number: | 4823 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.embl.de/research/units/scb/mueller_christoph/index.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2007 Head of Structural and Computational Biology Unit, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (with P. Bork)
- 2000 - 2007 Deputy Head of EMBL Outstation, Grenoble, France
- Since 2000 Senior Scientist at EMBL
- 1995 - 2000 Group Leader in Structural Biology, EMBL Grenoble Outstation, France
- 1992 - 1995 Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Cambridge, U.S.
- 1991 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Freiburg, Department of Biochemistry
- 1986 - 1991 Ph.D. thesis in X-ray Crystallography and Biochemistry, University of Freiburg, Germany
- 1981 - 1986 Studies in Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Freiburg, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Protein crystallography
- RNA polymerase I and III transcription
- Integrated structural biology
- Transcriptional regulation
- Chromatin modifying complexes
- Transcription factor/DNA complexes
- Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy
Honours and Awards
- 2013 ERC Advanced Investigator grant
- 2005 Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)
- 2003 Steinhofer-Award of the Steinhofer Foundation, University of Freiburg, Germany
