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Curriculum Vitae

Maximilian Zinke · Dr. rer. nat. Liestal, Switzerland · maximilian.zinke@gmail.com

§ A — Note

A scientist who builds things.

§ B — Education

Academic record.

  1. since Oct 2024

    Scientist, Quality Control Early Phase

    Peptide Aggregation and NMR Spectroscopy group

    Bachem AG · Bubendorf, Switzerland

  2. Apr 2021 — Sep 2024

    Postdoctoral Researcher

    Department of Structural Biology and Chemistry. Structure and dynamics of biomolecules by solution NMR and cryo-EM. Supervisor: Dr. Nadia Izadi-Pruneyre.

    Institut Pasteur · Paris, France

  3. Jan 2016 — Apr 2021

    PhD, Molecular Biophysics

    Solid-state NMR spectroscopy. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Adam Lange. Summa cum laude.

    Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie · Berlin

  4. Oct 2013 — Sep 2015

    M.Sc., Biochemistry

    Free University of Berlin

  5. Oct 2010 — Dec 2013

    B.Sc., Biochemistry

    Leibniz University Hannover

  6. 1997 — 2010

    Abitur

    Gymnasium Otterndorf

§ C — Theses

Written.

  1. 2021 · PhD
    summa cum laude

    Investigation of the Tail Tube Protein gp17.1 by Solid-State NMR

    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Adam Lange.

    Humboldt University of Berlin

  2. 2015 · M.Sc.
    very good · 1.0

    Characterization of the Tail Tube Protein gp17.1 by Solid-State NMR

    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Adam Lange.

    Humboldt University of Berlin

  3. 2013 · B.Sc.
    very good · 1.2

    Nitrite-dependent Carbonic Anhydrase Activity by GC/MS

    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dimitrios Tsikas.

    Hannover Medical School

§ D — Awards & Fellowships

Selected.

  1. Apr 2024 — Sep 2024

    Pasteur-Roux-Cantarini Fellowship

    Institut Pasteur

  2. May 2024

    Best Talk Prize · AILM 2024

    Institut de Biologie Structurale · Grenoble

  3. Oct 2023

    Best Talk Prize · Departmental Retreat

    Department of Structural Biology and Chemistry · Institut Pasteur

  4. Apr 2023

    Best Talk Prize · Departmental Retreat

    Department of Microbiology · Institut Pasteur

§ E — Training

Courses & workshops.

  1. Jun 2022

    Pasteur Course: Single Particle Imaging

    Cryo-EM data processing, reconstruction and structure calculation. With Carlos Oscar S. Sorzano.

    Institut Pasteur · Paris

  2. Sep 2021

    Workshop: Cryogenic Electron Microscopy

    Freezing of grids, alignment of the microscope, setup of data collection.

    Institut Pasteur · Paris

  3. Aug 2019

    EUROISMAR 2019 · Helper at scientific conference

    Free University Berlin

  4. Jul 2019

    EMBO Practical Course

    Integrative and cellular structural biology.

    Institut Pasteur · Paris

  5. Oct 2016

    Ampere Biological Solid-State NMR School

    Theory and advanced methods in solid-state NMR.

    Universitat de les Illes Balears · Spain

  6. Sep 2015

    Solid-State NMR Summer School

    Solid-state NMR for liquid-state NMR spectroscopists.

    Johannes Kepler University Linz · Austria

§ F — Teaching

Mentoring & supervision.

  1. 2016 — 2020

    Bachelor student mentoring

    Supervised two students for six months each.

    Humboldt University of Berlin

  2. 2016 — 2020
    256 h

    NMR practical course supervision

    Humboldt University of Berlin

  3. 2012
    26 h

    Physical chemistry seminar leader

    Leibniz University Hannover

§ G — Languages

Spoken.

  1. German (native) · English (business fluent) · French (intermediate)

§ H — Selected Talks

Conferences.

  1. May 2024
    selected

    TonB raider: Discovering the secrets of the Ton system's order

    AILM 2024 · Grenoble, France

  2. Feb 2024
    selected

    TonB raider: Discovering the secrets of the Ton system's order

    Biophysical Society Meeting 2024 · Philadelphia, USA

  3. Feb 2023
    selected

    Insights into the mechanism of the bacterial, periplasm-spanning transporter system "Ton"

    Biophysical Society Meeting 2023 · San Diego, USA

  4. Sep 2022
    selected

    Conformational selection of a sparsely populated state upon binding of an intrinsically disordered region between two components of the Ton system

    AILM 2022 · Grenoble, France

  5. Nov 2018
    invited

    Analysis of a Bacteriophage Tail-Tube Assembly by Proton-Detected Solid-State NMR: Combination of 4D Assignment Experiments and Methyl Labeling

    Humboldt Kolleg · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  6. Jul 2018
    selected

    Analysis of a Bacteriophage Tail-Tube Assembly by Proton-Detected Solid-State NMR

    23rd Rocky Mountain Conference · Snowbird, Utah, USA

§ I — Publications

Selected peer-reviewed.

17 entries · 2016 — 2024

Full bibliography on the publications page — first-author papers in Nature Communications, Angewandte Chemie, Journal of Biological Chemistry, and others. Live citation metrics on Google Scholar.