Group members
All current group members are listed below.
Some photographs from conferences and activities outside the lab can be found here.
All current group members are listed below.
Some photographs from conferences and activities outside the lab can be found here.
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.
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.
final 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 investigates biomedical applications of EPR spectroscopy.
First year PhD student
Honours project student 2022-2023