Prof. Lital Alfonta
Biological and related sciences, Physical sciences, Bioelectrochemistry, Synthetic Biology, Chemical Biology
Biological and related sciences
Plant biochemistry, photosynthesis
Proteins in the thylakoid membrane: structure, interaction, regulation, pigments
Diatoms, cyanobacteria, spermatophytes
Heisenberg Fellowship, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2000 – 2004
Federation of the Societies of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (FEBS) Fellowship for a research stay at the Imperial College, London, UK, 1996 – 1998
Doctoral fellowship from the German National Academic Foundation
Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (undergraduate)
English, French, German
Büchel, C. et al.: Photoassembly of the manganese cluster and oxygen evolution from monomeric and dimeric CP47-reaction center photosystem II complexes. In: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96, 1999. pp. 14288-14293.
Büchel, C. et al.: Localisation of the psbH-subunit in photosystem II – a new approach using labelling of His-tags with a Ni2+-NTA-goldcluster and single particle analysis. In: J. Mol. Biol. 312, 2001. pp. 371-379.
Beer, A. et al.: Subunit composition and pigmentation of fucoxanthin-chlorophyll proteins in diatoms: Evidence for a subunit involved in diadinoxanthin and diatoxanthin binding. In: Biochemistry 45, 2006. pp. 13046-13053.
Gundermann, K., Büchel, C.: The fluorescence yield of the trimeric fucoxanthin-chlorophyll-protein FCPa in the diatom Cyclotella meneghiniana is dependent on the amount of bound diatoxanthin. In: Photosynth. Res. 95, 2008. pp. 229-235.
Büchel, C. et al.: Identification of a specific fucoxanthin-chlorophyll protein, Fcp4, in the light harvesting complex of photosystem I in the diatom Cyclotella meneghiniana. In: Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1787, 2009. pp. 905-912.
Büchel, C. et al.: Carotenoid Structures and Environments in Trimeric and Oligomeric Fucoxanthin Chlorophyll a/c2 Proteins from Resonance Raman Spectroscopy. In: J. Phys. Chem. B 113, 2009. pp. 12565-12574.
German Research Foundation (DFG) Research Unit: Specific Light-Driven Reactions in Unicellular Model Algae
DFG project: Functional characterisation of different fucoxanthin chlorophyll proteins (FCP) in diatoms
EU project HARVEST: Control of Light Use Efficiency in Plants and Algae – From Light to Harvest
Member of the departmental council
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD): Committee for awarding doctoral fellowships
Vice dean, 2010 – 2011
Deputy Ombudsman for dealing with scientific misconduct, Goethe University Frankfurt, since 2009
Dean of Studies, 2008 – 2010
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Biological and related sciences, Physical sciences, Bioelectrochemistry, Synthetic Biology, Chemical Biology
Biological and related sciences, Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary genetics
Biological and related sciences, Environment, Plant Ecology, Conservation Biology, Landscape Genomics
Biological and related sciences, Physical sciences, Environmental virology, Molecular and structural biology, biochemistry