The Bode EPR lab

Dr Bela E Bode

Reader - PI

Bela is originally from Frankfurt am Main (Germany) where he studied chemistry as an undergraduate. For his postgraduate studies in Frankfurt he investigated quantitative aspects of pulsed dipolar EPR spectroscopy under the joint supervision of Olav Schiemann and Thomas Prisner. After a short postdoctoral stay with Thomas Prisner he moved to the Matysik group in Leiden (The Netherlands) to study optical methods in solid-state NMR spectroscopy before moving to his current position in St Andrews.

CV
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Dr Katrin Ackermann

Postdoc

Katrin studied biochemistry at the University of Bayreuth and at the Goethe University of Frankfurt (Germany), where she prepared her thesis on liquid-state protein NMR. For her postgraduate studies she worked on diurnal rhythms in human post-mortem tissues at the Anatomy in Frankfurt. She continued to work in the field of human chronobiology during two postdoctoral stays at the University of Surrey (UK) and at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam (NL), before joining the University of St Andrews in 2012 and starting to work with EPR. Her projects in the Bode group are centred on EPR applications for structural biology and PELDOR quality control criteria.

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Joshua Wort

Postdoc

Josh studied his MSci in biochemistry under Professor Chris Kay at UCL, before moving to St Andrews in 2016 to pursue a PhD in pulse EPR applications. In a nutshell Josh's PhD has involved the investigation of novel Cu-chelates for use in genetically-encoded labelling using double-histidine motifs, for use in 5-pulse RIDME. Having finished his PhD he stays on for a postdoc in the group.

Laura Remmel

3^rd year PhD student

Laura studied Chemistry at the Goethe University in Frankfurt (Germany) from 2012-2018 and obtained her Bachelor’s as well as her Master’s degree in Chemistry. Her Bachelor’s project was focused on the synthesis of inhibitors for the amyloid-β aggregation. For the final project of her Master’s degree she investigated the structures and dynamics of small proteins by liquid state NMR. She joined the Bode group in August 2018 to do her PhD and is going to investigate biomedical applications of EPR spectroscopy.

Edoardo Fusco

1^st year PhD student

Edoardo graduated from the Univeristà degli studi di Torino (Italy) with a bachelor degree in Chemistry and Chemical Technologies (2018) and a master degree in Chemistry (2020). His final project, under the supervision of Prof. Mario Chiesa and Dr. Enrico Salvadori, dealt with solid state EPR spectroscopy, studying the long range spatial distribution of active sites inside the ZSM-5 zeolite. He joined the Bode group at the end of October 2020 to start his PhD concerning the rational design and optimization of molecular qubits by means of EPR spectroscopy.