Martin Jinek

Martin Jinek (born May 31, 1979 in Třinec , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech biochemist . His work represents significant advances in genetic engineering.

Life

He attended from 1992 the grammar school Třinec and from 1996 the Catholic boarding school The Oratory School in Reading , where he was also a correspondence student of the grammar school Třinec. Jinek began his studies in Cambridge in 1998 at Trinity College , where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in science . He also received his Master of Science degree in chemistry from the University of Cambridge in 2002 .

In 2006 he did his doctorate with a doctoral thesis at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg in the group of Elena Conti . From 2007 to 2012 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley with Jennifer Doudna .

In February 2013, Martin Jinek became an assistant professor ( tenure track ) at the Biochemical Institute of the University of Zurich and heads a research group there. He has been an associate professor since April 1, 2018 .

Act

Martin Jinek's work concerns the molecular mechanisms of cell regulation by means of protein-RNA interactions. In particular, he is concerned with the antiviral defense mechanism CRISPR occurring in bacteria and the CRISPR / Cas system for the generation of genetically modified organisms.

Awards

In 2013 the European Research Council awarded Martin Jinek a Starting Grant of 1.5 million Swiss francs to finance his research in Zurich. In the following year, Jinek won the Ernst Th. Jucker Prize of the University of Zurich, endowed with CHF 10,000, for findings in cancer research, and the EMBL's John Kendrew Award .

The Swiss Society for Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (formerly the Swiss Society for Biochemistry) awarded him the Friedrich Miescher Prize in 2015 . The prize is endowed with 20,000 francs.

In 2017, the granted Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Martin Jinek one with financial resources of 650,000 US dollars affiliated research grant. Jinek was one of 41 researchers worldwide who benefited from this program, which is jointly funded by the HHMI, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , the Wellcome Trust and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation .

Publications (selection)

Jinek has published several frequently cited papers in journals such as Nature and Science , including

M. Jinek, K. Chylinski, I. Fonfara, M. Hauer, JA Doudna , E. Charpentier : A Programmable Dual-RNA-Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity . In: Science . Vol. 337, No. 6096, August 16, 2012, p. 816. ISSN 0036-8075 . doi : 10.1126 / science.1225829 .
Martin Jinek, Jennifer A. Doudna : A three-dimensional view of the molecular machinery of RNA interference . In: Nature . Vol. 457, No. 7228, January 22, 2009, p. 405. ISSN 0028-0836 . doi : 10.1038 / nature07755 .
Atlanta Cook, Fulvia Bono, Martin Jinek, Elena Conti : Structural Biology of Nucleocytoplasmic Transport . In: Annual Review of Biochemistry . Vol. 76, No. 1, June 7, 2007, p. 647. ISSN 0066-4154 . doi : 10.1146 / annurev.biochem.76.052705.161529 .
Martin Jinek, Alexandra East, Aaron Cheng, Steven Lin, Enbo Ma, Jennifer Doudna : RNA-programmed genome editing in human cells . In: eLife . Vol. 2, January 29, 2013. ISSN 2050-084X . doi : 10.7554 / eLife.00471 .
RE Haurwitz, M. Jinek, B. Wiedenheft, K. Zhou, JA Doudna : Sequence- and Structure-Specific RNA Processing by a CRISPR Endonuclease . In: Science . Vol. 329, No. 5997, September 9, 2010, p. 1355. ISSN 0036-8075 . doi : 10.1126 / science.1192272 .

Web links

Martin Jinek on Google Scholar

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Martin Jinek. Gymnázium Třinec, accessed on May 4, 2019 (Czech).
↑ ^a ^b ^c Prof. Martin Jinek. University of Zurich , Biochemical Institute, March 16, 2015, accessed on May 15, 2015 (English, curriculum vitae in tabular form).
↑ Martin Jinek. University of Zurich , Department of Biochemistry, April 24, 2018, accessed April 27, 2019 .
↑ Nik Walter: The Nobel Prize candidate from the University of Zurich. In: Tages-Anzeiger . May 14, 2015, accessed May 15, 2015 .
↑ ^a ^b Martin Jinek receives Ernst Th. Jucker Prize. University of Zurich , October 14, 2014, accessed on May 15, 2015 .
^ Alumni Awards: The John Kendrew Award. European Molecular Biology Laboratory , July 10, 2015, accessed May 15, 2015 .
↑ UZH researcher Martin Jinek receives the renowned Friedrich Miescher Prize. University of Zurich , January 29, 2015, accessed on May 2, 2019 .
↑ Awards. In: ls2.ch. Life Sciences Switzerland (LS2), accessed on May 2, 2019 .
^ Philanthropies Select 41 Scientists as International Research Scholars. Howard Hughes Medical Institute , May 9, 2017, accessed May 4, 2019 .
^ Web of Science Search. In: Web of Science . Thomson Reuters , accessed on May 4, 2019 (English, lists 65 specialist publications for M. Jinek, 10 of them with more than 200 citations. In 2018 alone, his papers were cited more than 1800 times).

personal data
SURNAME	Jinek, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jínek, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Czech biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 31, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH	Třinec , Czechoslovakia

[gymtri-1] Martin Jinek. Gymnázium Třinec, accessed on May 4, 2019 (Czech).

[uzh:cvjinek-2] Prof. Martin Jinek. University of Zurich , Biochemical Institute, March 16, 2015, accessed on May 15, 2015 (English, curriculum vitae in tabular form).

[uzh:forschung:jinek-3] Martin Jinek. University of Zurich , Department of Biochemistry, April 24, 2018, accessed April 27, 2019 .

[tagi20150514-4] Nik Walter: The Nobel Prize candidate from the University of Zurich. In: Tages-Anzeiger . May 14, 2015, accessed May 15, 2015 .

[uzh:news:juckerpreis-5] Martin Jinek receives Ernst Th. Jucker Prize. University of Zurich , October 14, 2014, accessed on May 15, 2015 .

[embl:kendrewawardwinners-6] Alumni Awards: The John Kendrew Award. European Molecular Biology Laboratory , July 10, 2015, accessed May 15, 2015 .

[uzh:miescherpreis-7] UZH researcher Martin Jinek receives the renowned Friedrich Miescher Prize. University of Zurich , January 29, 2015, accessed on May 2, 2019 .

[ls2:awards-8] Awards. In: ls2.ch. Life Sciences Switzerland (LS2), accessed on May 2, 2019 .

[hhmi:irs2017-05-09-9] Philanthropies Select 41 Scientists as International Research Scholars. Howard Hughes Medical Institute , May 9, 2017, accessed May 4, 2019 .

[wos-10] Web of Science Search. In: Web of Science . Thomson Reuters , accessed on May 4, 2019 (English, lists 65 specialist publications for M. Jinek, 10 of them with more than 200 citations. In 2018 alone, his papers were cited more than 1800 times).