Prof. Dr. Beate Koksch

Freie Universität Berlin
Institut für Chemie und Biochemie
Organische Chemie
Professor
Peptidic Materials and Therapeutics with Unnatural Building Blocks
Room 0.02
14195 Berlin
Speaker of the Graduate School "Macromolecular Bioscience"
Speaker of the DFG Research Training Group "Fluorine as Key Element"
Speaker of the Center for Supramolecular Interactions CSI
Leipzig University; Leipzig, Germany: PhD in Biochemistry awarded on November, 06, 1995, Summa cum laude
Leipzig University; Leipzig, Germany: Diploma in Chemistry awarded on July, 12, 1991, Magna cum laude
Technical University of Leuna-Merseburg; Merseburg, Germany; Undergraduate study from September, 1986 to February, 1988
Highschool Pforte Schulpforte, Germany 1984 – 1986, Summa cum laudeResearch Experience
Since 05 / 2004 Freie Universität Berlin,
University Professor, W2
Organic Chemistry / Natural Product Chemistry
02 / 2004 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Assistant Professor (offer declined)
2000 – 2004 Leipzig University
Assistant Professor
10 /02 – 3 / 03 The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
02 / 02 – 03 / 02 Research Associate
07 / 01 – 02 / 02 Collaboration with Prof. Carlos F. Barbas, III
03 / 00 – 09 / 00 The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
Research Associate – Post-Doctoral Fellow
Supervisor: Prof. Carlos F. Barbas, III
03 / 99 – 03 / 00 The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Supervisor: Prof. M. Reza Ghadiri
1995 – 1999 Leipzig University
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Supervisor: Prof. K. Burger
1991 – 1995 Leipzig University
Graduate Research Fellow
Thesis Supervisor: Prof. H.-D. Jakubke
07 / 93 – 07 /94 Technical University Munich
Research stay
Supervisor: Prof. K. Burger
1990 - 1991 Leipzig University
Diploma Thesis
Thesis Supervisor: Prof. K. Schultze
03 / 90 – 06 / 90 BellFlavorsand Fragrances, Miltitz, Germany
Industrial training
HONORS AND AWARDS SCHOLARSHIPS / FELLOWSHIPS / GRANTS
Georg Thieme publisher’s award (2002)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Research Fellowship (4/99 – 9/00)
Lessing medal in Gold (1986)
FELLOWSHIPS / GRANTS (Current and Completed)
DFG – Four-Year Grant (2012-2016); PI, DFG-Sonderforschungsbereich 765 „Multivalency as organisational and functional principle“, Subproject A5
Includes support for 2 PhD students and supply money
DFG - Three-Year Grant (2010-2013); PI
Topic: “Study of the structure and induction of structure formation in amyloidogenic model peptides”
Includes support for one PhD student and supply money
DFG – Four-Year Grant (2009-2012); PI, DFG-Graduate School “Fluorine as key element” Subprojects D2 and D3
Includes support for 2 PhD students and supply money
DFG – Four-Year Grant (2008-2011); PI, DFG-Sonderforschungsbereich 765 „Multivalency as organisational and functional principle“, Subproject A5
Includes support for 2 PhD students and supply money
DFG - Three-Year Grant (2006-2009); PI
Topic: “Importance of electrostatic interactions and metal ion complexation for peptide and protein folding”
Includes support for one PhD student one analytical HPLC and supply money
Fonds der Chemischen Industrie - Two-Year Fellowship (2006-2008); PI
Topic: “Organization of Nanoparticles by interaction with coiled coil peptides”
Includes support for one PhD student
DFG - Three-Year Grant (2006-2009); PI
Topic: “HIV entry inhibitors” (Follow-up project)
Includes support for one PhD student and supply money
DFG - Three-Year Grant (2005-2008); DFG-Research Group „Formation and Stability of b-sheets“, Subproject 10C
Topic: „Structural and kinetic characterization of intermediates of misfolding and aggregation of proteins“; PI
Includes support for one PhD student and supply money
DFG - Three-Year Grant (2005-2008); Graduiertenkolleg 788 “Hydrogen bonds and hydrogen transfer“
Topic: „Studies of the influence of fluoralkyl substituents on the formation of intermolecular hydrogen bonds in peptides”; PI
Includes support for one PhD student and supply money
DFG - Two-Year Grant (2002-2004); PI
Topic: “HIV entry inhibitors”
includes support for 2 PhD students and supply money
Volkswagen Foundation - Two-Year Grant (2002-2004); PI
Topic: “A bi-directional peptide switch: a-helical coiled coil interactions versus b-sheet formation”
Includes support for one Postdoctoral students and supply money
Fonds der Chemischen Industrie - Grant for supply money (2002); PI
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
- Since 11/2012: Speaker of the Research Training Group “Fluorine as key element”
- Since 04/2012: Speaker of the Helmholtz Graduate School: “Macromolecular Bioscience”
- Since 10/2011: Speaker of the Organic Chemistry department
- Organizer of the 10th German Peptide Symposium, March, 7-10, 2011, Freie Universität and Technische Univerität Berlin, Germany
- Since 2010: Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Biomaterials and Nanobiotechnology
- 2009-2011: Speaker of the Initiative “Graduate School of Excellence - SUPRAMOL” at Freie Universität Berlin; preproposal submitted to DFG August 2010
- Since 2009: Speaker of the Interdisciplinary Initiative “Centre for Supramolecular Interactions” at Freie Universität Berlin
- Since 2009: Member of the Scientific Coordinator Team of the DFG-Graduate School “Fluorine as key element” at Freie Universität Berlin
- Since 2009: Member of the “Expert/inn/enbeirat Gleichstellung“, Freie Universität Berlin
- 2008-2009: ERASMUS coordinator for the Institute of Chemistry, Freie Universität Berlin
- WS 2008/2009: Co-organizer of the University Lecture Series “Offener Hörsaal”, Topic: “Erneuerbare Energien - Wissenschaft, Vermittlung, Verantwortung” at Freie Universität Berlin
- 2007-2010: Member of the Executive committee of the Graduate School „Biomedical Sciences“, Freie Universität Berlin
- Since 2006: Member of the “Zentraler Frauenrat”, Freie Universität Berlin
- 2006-2011: Member of the “Akademischer Senat”, Freie Universität Berlin
- Head of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the 2nd Sino-German Frontiers of Chemistry Symposium, Bejing, China, October 2008
- Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the 1st Sino-German Frontiers of Chemistry Symposium, Kloster Seon, Germany, July 2006
- Evaluator for in depth study courses for the ZevA Hannover, 2005
- Expert evaluator in the chemistry and life science panel for the International Marie-Curie Fellowship evaluation, Brussels, May, 2004
- Member of the Organizing Committee of the 4th German Peptide Symposium, March, 21-24, 1999, University Leipzig, Germany
- Co-Organizer of the Workshop “Peptide modification by non-natural amino acids”, Leipzig / Germany, September, 29-30, 1997 (http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~inno/innokoll/peptiden.htm)
Consulting
- Bayer Schering Pharma (Berlin)
- Fluorotronics (La Mesa, CA, U.S.A.)
MEMBERSHIPS
- Max-Bergmann-Kreis e.V. (For the Advancement of Peptide Chemistry Research)
- German Chemical Society,
- American Chemical Society, Fluorine Division