Karolin Luger

Karolin Luger (* 1963 in Austria ) is an Austrian- American biochemist at the University of Colorado Boulder .

Live and act

Luger is known for her work on the structure and function of chromatin . In particular, she was able to make a significant contribution to the elucidation of the three-dimensional structure of nucleosomes . Recent work Lugers deal with how nucleosomes detected and (by histone - chaperones ) are put together and how the dynamics of nucleosomes, the gene expression affected. She uses methods such as X-ray crystallography , electron microscopy , fluorescence spectroscopy , atomic force microscopy , analytical ultracentrifugation , molecular biology and life-cell imaging.

Luger graduated from high school in Dornbirn . She graduated from the University of Innsbruck a Bachelor in Microbiology and a Master in Biochemistry and Kasper Kirschner at the Biocenter of the University of Basel a Ph.D. with a thesis in protein engineering and biophysics . From 1990 she worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Timothy J. Richmond at the ETH Zurich . From 1999 she was at Colorado State University , where she received a professorship in 2007. Since 2015 she has been at the University of Colorado Boulder and since 2005 Luger has also been doing research for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).

In 2007 Karolin Luger received the Vorarlberg Science Prize (appreciation prize). In 2013 she was National Lecturer of the Biophysical Society . She has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2017 and a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the European Molecular Biology Organization since 2018 .

Luger is married and has one daughter.

Web links

• Karolin Luger at the University of Colorado Boulder (colorado.edu)
• Luger Lab (lugerlab.org)
• Karolin Luger on Profiles in Biophysics (biophysics.org)
• Life data, publications and academic family tree of Karolin Luger at academictree.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Big US award for biochemist. In: orf.at. ORF , May 8, 2018, accessed on March 16, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Karolin Luger, PhD. In: evolscience.com. Retrieved March 16, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Science Prize of the State of Vorarlberg (PDF; 52 kB); accessed on March 16, 2019.
4. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter L. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved March 16, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Karolin Luger. In: nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences , accessed March 16, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Karolin Luger. In: embo.org. European Molecular Biology Organization , accessed March 16, 2019 .