Sonja-Verena Albers

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Group leader: Dr. Sonja-Verena Albers

PostDoctoral fellows: Abhra Gosh, Alvaro Orell, Xiaoqing Ma

PhD/Diploma students: Julia Reimann, Benjamin Meyer, Kerstin Rommel, Marleen van Wolferen, Ankan Banerjee, Anna-Lena Henche, Tomasz Neiner, Michaela Wagner, Agnieszka Stanek

Undergraduate student: Sven Schalles

Technical assistant: Alexander Wagner

Dr. Sonja-Verena Albers

Curriculum Vitae

Sonja-Verena Albers (born 1972)
Diploma (Biology), University of Würzburg, 1996
PhD (Molecular Microbiology), University of Groningen Haren, Netherlands, 2001
Postdoc (Molecular Microbiology), University of Groningen, 2001-2002
Project group leader (VENI-laureate and VIDI-laureate), Department of Molecular Microbiology, University of Groningen 2003-2008
Head of the Max Planck Research Group "Molecular Biology of Archaea" at the MPI Marburg, since 10/2008

Research Area: Molecular Biology of Archaea

The central theme in our research is the assembly of cell surface appendages in archaea and their role in adhesion and biofilm formation. The model organism we study is the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus which grows optimally at 80^oC and a pH of 2-4. We use genetic approaches to identify systems in Sulfolobus that are involved in the assembly of cell surface appendages and biochemically characterize the subunits and their interplay in the assembly process.
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Recent Publications

Ghosh A, Hartung S, van der Does C, Tainer JA, Albers SV. (2011) Archaeal flagellar ATPase motor shows ATP-dependent hexameric assembly and activity stimulation by specific lipid binding. Biochem J. Jul 1;437(1):43-52.

Pohlschroder M, Ghosh A, Tripepi M, Albers SV. (2011) Archaeal type IV pilus-like structures-evolutionarily conserved prokaryotic surface organelles. Curr Opin Microbiol. Apr 7. [Epub ahead of print]

Albers SV, Meyer BH. (2011) The archaeal cell envelope. Nat Rev Microbiol. Jun;9(6):414-26.

Barthelme D, Dinkelaker S, Albers SV, Londei P, Ermler U, Tampé R. (2011). Ribosome recycling depends on a mechanistic link between the FeS cluster domain and a conformational switch of the twin-ATPase ABCE1. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 108(8):3228-33.

Quax TE, Lucas S, Reimann J, Pehau-Arnaudet G, Prevost MC, Forterre P, Albers SV, Prangishvili D. (2011). Simple and elegant design of a virion egress structure in Archaea. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 108(8):3354-9.

Zolghadr B, Klingl A, Rachel R, Driessen AJ, Albers SV. (2011). The bindosome is a structural component of the Sulfolobus solfataricus cell envelope. Extremophiles. Mar;15(2):235-44