Prof. Dr. Edward A Lemke
Johannes Gutenberg University, Biocentre II & IMB
Hanns-Dieter-Hüsch-Weg 17, 55128 Mainz
edlemke@uni-mainz.de
Current position:
Professor, Adjunct Director IMB
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University education
| 1999 – 2001 | Master of Science, University of Oklahoma |
| 1997 – 2001 | Diploma, Technical University of Berlin |
Scientific degrees
| 2005 – 2008 | Joint research associate (postdoctorate) Department of Chemistry and Department of Molecular Biology at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA |
| 2002 – 2005 | PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (and University of Goettingen), Department Membrane Biophysics (3 month bridging postdoc) |
Professional experience
| 2019 – | Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Araxa Biosciences |
| 2018 – | Professor JGU Mainz, Department of Biology and joint appointed with Department of Chemistry, Pharmacy and Geosciences |
| 2018 – | Adjunct Director IMB |
| 2018 – 2020 | Visiting Group Leader EMBL |
| 2009 – 2017 | Independent Group Leader at the EMBL Heidelberg, Structural and Computational Biology Unit and Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit |
Honors and awards
| 2018 | Gutenberg Research College Fellow |
| 2017 | FEBS anniversary award |
| 2016 | Chica and Heinz Schaller award for biomedical research |
| 2015 | Young Investigator Award of the International Society for Chemical Biology |
| 2015 – 2020 | ERC consolidator grant |
| 2013 | MRN Innovation award (jointly to C. Schultz and E. Lemke) |
| 2010 – 2016 | Emmy Noether program of the DFG |
| 2006 – 2008 | Feodor Lynen postdoctoral fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation |
| 2003 – 2005 | PhD fellowship of the Boehringer Ingelheim Fond |
| 2002 | Erwin-Stephan award for excellent and fast studies, Technical University of Berlin |
| 2001 | Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes |
| 1999 – 2000 | Oversea-scholarship of the Technical University of Berlin |
| 1998 | Klaus-Koch-scholarship for excellent studies, Technical University of Berlin |
Other activities
Scientific conference and workshop organization
| 2020 | Co-organizer Genetic Code Expansion Conference (Bejing, China) |
| 2020 | Main organizer EMBO/EMBL-Symposium on Phase Separation |
| 2018 | Co-organizer EMBO Chemical Biology Conference 2018 |
| 2018 | Main organizer EMBO/EMBL-Symposium on Phase Separation |
| 2015 | Main organizer EMBO Advanced Fluorescence Spec/Microscopy Practical Course |
| 2015 | Elected Co-chair, IDP Subgroup of the Biophysical Society, annual meeting |
| 2014 | Main organizer EMBO Chemical Biology conference 2014 |
| 2011 | Co-organizer and teacher 1st EMBO Chemical Biology Practical Course |
| 2009 | Co-organizer Symposium on “Light Microscopy meets Structural Biology” |
Editorial activities/review panel member
| 2017 – | Editorial Board member, Journal of Molecular Biology |
| 2017 | Editor Methods in Molecular Biology, Noncanonical amino acids |
| 2016 – | Editorial Advisory Board, Cell Chemical Biology |
| 2016 | Editor Methods in Molecular Biology Book on Genetic Code Expansion |
| 2015 – | Editorial Advisory Board, ChemBiochem (Wiley) |
| 2015 – 2017 | Editorial Advisory Board, RSC Molecular Biosystems |
| 2014 | Guest-Editor, special issue on Genetic code expansion (ChemBioChem, Wiley) |
Coordinating Functions
| 2018 – | Speaker DFG Priority Program 2191 |
| 2017 – | Head of corefacility steering committee, JGU Mainz |
| 2011 – 2016 | Module Coordinator EMBL Predoc Course |
| 2010 – | EMBL Advanced Light Microscopy Facility Steering Committee |