Gert Folkers
Birth date: 24 mei 1965
Married to Marianne Schoofs
Father of two childs: Cecile and Juliette
Present adress:
Department of NMR Spectroscopy -
Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research
Utrecht University
Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, the Netherlands
e-mail: Gert(AT)nmr.chem.uu.nl
Telephone: +31-30-253-9930
Fax : +31-30-253-7623
Research Interest:
Transcription
regulation, how do transcription activators exert their effect on the
basal transcription machinery
Protein
expression systems, find optimal expression systems for production
of recombinant proteins or protein domains suitable for structure determination
HTP methods for recombinant protein production
Structure determination using established NMR methods for structure determination.
Main focus is on human protein domains for which no structural information is available
Structural
biology, the use molecular biological and biochemical methods in order
to learn from the three dimensional structure more about the function
of the geneproduct
List of publications
Structures solved
Short CV
I did my PhD in the group of Paul
van der Saag at the Netherlands Institute
for developmental biology in Utrecht.
In this group I worked from 1991 until 1998 on
the transcription regulation by retinoid receptors. For detailed information
I refer to my thesis
From februari 1998 I started as a postdoc in the group of prof. Rob Kaptein,
to setup a laboratory for the expression and purification of proteins and to biochemically characterize proteins for which the structure has been established.
In Februari 2005 my position was tenured and from January 2006 I´m appointed as associate professor in the NMR spectroscopy section of the Life Science Faculty of the Utrecht University.
