Kerstin Göpfrich
Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg,
Germany
I have always been curious about fundamental questions in science and long fascinated by the idea to engineer a cell from scratch. Since 2019, I am a professor at Heidelberg University at the Center for Molecular Biology (ZMBH) and I am leading the Max Planck Research Group Biophysical Engineering of Life. Previously, as a Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in Stuttgart, I worked on bottom-up synthetic biology and microfluidics with Joachim Spatz. In April 2017, I completed my PhD in physics as a Gates Cambridge Fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK, where I built DNA origami nanopores in the group of Ulrich Keyser.
Selected References
- Illig, M., Jahnke, K., Weise, L. P., Scheffold, M., Mersdorf, U., Drechsler, H., ... & Göpfrich, K. (2024). Triggeredcontraction of self-assembled micron-scale DNA nanotube rings. Nature Communications, 15(1), 2307
- Zhan, P., Jahnke, K., Liu, N., & Göpfrich, K. (2022). Functional DNA-based cytoskeletons for synthetic cells. Nature Chemistry, 14(8), 958-963
- Poppleton, E., Urbanek, N., Chakraborty, T., Griffo, A., Monari, L., & Göpfrich, K. (2023). RNA origami: design,simulation and application. RNA biology, 20(1), 510-524