Petra Schwille
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Petra Schwille (born 25 January 1968 in Sindelfingen[1]) is a German professor and a researcher in the area of biophysics. Since 2011, she has been a director of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany.[2][3] She is known for her ground-laying work in the field of fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy,[4][5] and numerous contributions on model membranes.[6] Her current research focuses around bottom-up approaches to building an artificial cell within a broader area of synthetic biology.[2][7] In 2010, Schwille received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.[8]
Education
[edit]Schwille graduated with a Diploma in physics from the University of Göttingen in 1993.[9] She worked toward her doctoral degree in physics at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany, and received her degree from Technical University of Braunschweig in 1996, with a thesis on fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy.
Career
[edit]Schwille worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University in 1997, and returned to the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen to a research group leader position in 1999.[6] She became a professor of biophysics at TU Dresden in 2002.[8] In 2012, Schwille became the director of the research department "Cellular and Molecular Biophysics" at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany,[6] as well as an Honorary Professor in physics at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.[9] She is also a chief co-coordinator of MaxSynBio, a research network of the Max Planck Society for synthetic biology.[10]
Schwille developed the "two-photon cross-correlation spectroscopy" method with which fundamental cellular processes can be explored.[11]
Schwille has been a member of the scientific Board of Trustees of the Heinrich Wieland Prize since 2011.[12]
Awards and honors
[edit]Awards
[edit]- 2001: Lecturer award by the German Chemical Industry Fund[3]
- 2003: Young Investigator Award for Biotechnology of the Peter und Traudl Engelhorn Foundation[3]
- 2004: Philip Morris Research Prize[13]
- 2010: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG)[8]
- 2011: Braunschweig Research Prize[11][14]
- 2013: Suffrage Science Award, MRC-CSC, London[3]
- 2018: Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art[3]
- 2021: Otto Warburg Medal[15]
Memberships and fellowships
[edit]- 2005: Max-Planck-Fellow of the MPI for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics[3]
- 2010: Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina[16]
- 2011: Member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)[17][18]
- 2013: Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities[19]
- 2013: Member of EMBO[3][20]
- 2015: Honorary Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society[21]
- 2017: Fellow of the Biophysical Society[22]
- 2018: Member of the Academia Europaea[23]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Schwille, Petra". www.mpg.de. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
- ^ a b "Petra Schwille". Retrieved 22 February 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Curriculum Vitae". www.biochem.mpg.de. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
- ^ Schwille, P.; Meyer-Almes, F. J.; Rigler, R. (1 April 1997). "Dual-color fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy for multicomponent diffusional analysis in solution". Biophysical Journal. 72 (4): 1878–1886. Bibcode:1997BpJ....72.1878S. doi:10.1016/S0006-3495(97)78833-7. ISSN 0006-3495. PMC 1184381. PMID 9083691.
- ^ Schwille, Petra; Haupts, Ulrich; Maiti, Sudipta; Webb, Watt W. (1999). "Molecular Dynamics in Living Cells Observed by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy with One- and Two-Photon Excitation". Biophysical Journal. 77 (4): 2251–2265. Bibcode:1999BpJ....77.2251S. doi:10.1016/s0006-3495(99)77065-7. ISSN 0006-3495. PMC 1300505. PMID 10512844.
- ^ a b c Powell, Kendall (11 May 2015). "Petra Schwille: Taking a minimalist approach to membranes". J Cell Biol. 209 (3): 320–321. doi:10.1083/jcb.2093pi. ISSN 0021-9525. PMC 4427786. PMID 25963813.
- ^ Schwille, Petra; Spatz, Joachim; Landfester, Katharina; Bodenschatz, Eberhard; Herminghaus, Stephan; Sourjik, Victor; Erb, Tobias J.; Bastiaens, Philippe; Lipowsky, Reinhard; Hyman, Anthony; Dabrock, Peter (2018). "MaxSynBio: Avenues Towards Creating Cells from the Bottom Up". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57 (41): 13382–13392. doi:10.1002/anie.201802288. ISSN 1521-3773. PMID 29749673. S2CID 13680183.
- ^ a b c "DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2010 – Prof. Dr. Petra Schwille". www.dfg.de.
- ^ a b "DLD Conference Speaker: Petra Schwille". Retrieved 6 March 2020.
- ^ "Schwille Group". www.maxsynbio.mpg.de. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
- ^ a b "Petra Schwille receives Braunschweig Research Prize 2011". Retrieved 22 February 2020.
- ^ "Heinrich Wieland Prize – Professor Dr. Petra Schwille". Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- ^ "Philip Morris Research Prize 2004 for Springer authors". Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- ^ "Laureate 2011". Retrieved 22 February 2020.
- ^ "Max Planck Director Petra Schwille receives Otto Warburg Medal". Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry. 15 March 2022. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
- ^ "New Members of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina and the Berlin–Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Academy / Prize of the Berlin–Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities: H. Cölfen / Dr. Hermann Schnell Fellowship: F. H. Schacher". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 52 (48): 12481–12482. 2013. doi:10.1002/anie.201308236.
- ^ "DLD Conference Speaker: Petra Schwille". Retrieved 22 February 2020.
- ^ "Petra Schwille, Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie – acatech Member". Retrieved 22 February 2020.
- ^ "Petra Schwille – Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities". Retrieved 22 February 2020.
- ^ "Find people in the EMBO Communities". people.embo.org. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
- ^ "RMS Honorary Fellows". Retrieved 6 March 2020.
- ^ "Biophysical Society – Society Awards". Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- ^ "Academy of Europe: Schwille Petra". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
External links
[edit]- "Petra Schwille, Direktorin, Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie". YouTube. ARD-alpha. 20 June 2016. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
- Petra Schwille publications indexed by Google Scholar
- "Academy of Europe: Schwille Petra". Academia Europaea – The Academy of Europe. Retrieved 6 March 2020.