The Bode EPR lab

Dr Bela E Bode

Lecturer - 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 at the EaStCHEM School of Chemistry 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

Final year PhD student

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.

Maria Oranges

Final year PhD student

Maria graduated from University of Calabria (Italy) with a Bachelor Degree in Chemistry (2013) and obtained a Master Degree in Chemistry (2015) at the same university. During her final project, she investigated phospholipid bilayer model systems by CW and pulse EPR spectroscopy. She joined the Bode group in September 2016 and since then she has been working on metal-nitroxide distance measurements of model systems and on nitroxide-nitroxide distance measurements in multimeric model and biological systems using PELDOR and RIDME.

Niti Schindler

2^nd year PhD student

Niti graduated from Goethe University (Frankfurt, Germany) with a B.Sc. (2015) and M.Sc. (2018) in chemistry. He did his Bachelor’s project in the group of Mike Heilemann working on single molecule FRET spectroscopy. Afterwards he joined the group of Thomas Prisner for his Master’s degree, which was focused on synthesizing and investigating multi spin model systems for EPR spectroscopy. In May 2018 he joined the Bode group to do his PhD working on extending the precision of nanometre distance measurements by pulse dipolar EPR spectroscopy.

Laura Remmel

2^nd 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.

Antoine Schuller

1^st year PhD student

Antoine graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Lille (France) in 2018. For his master’s last year, he performed an Erasmus exchange at the University of St Andrews where he specialised in synthetic chemistry. His Honours Project was about the synthesis of a substituted dioxolanone isolated from a Chinese marine fungus.
Antoine joined the CRITICAT CDT Program in September 2018. After the initial 6-month training period he joined the Bode and the Watson groups in spring 2019 for a joint PhD project involving copper catalysis and EPR spectroscopy within the CRITICAT programme.

Viktorija Stikonaite

2019-2020 Chemistry Honours Project