Prof. Dr. Seema Agarwal
Physical sciencesPreparative and physical chemistry of polymersNanotechnology
Biological and related sciences , Personal services, Physical sciences
Solid state NMR spectroscopy, development of NMR spectroscopy techniques, paramagnetic systems, structural biology
Examination of the structure of amyloid fibrils and membrane proteins
Solid state NMR spectroscopy of paramagnetic metalloproteins
Hyperpolarisation in NMR
Liebig Fellowship from the German Chemical Industry Fund (FCI), 2002 – 2006
Feodor Lynen Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2000 – 2002
English, French, German, Italian
B. Uluca, T. Viennet, D. Petrović, H. Shaykhalishahi, F. Weirich, A. Gönülalan, B. Strodel, M. Etzkorn, W. Hoyer, H. Heise: DNP-Enhanced solid-state NMR at Cryogenic Temperatures: a Tool to Snapshot Conformational Ensembles of α-Synuclein in Different States. In: Biophys. J. 114, 2018. S. 1614-1623.
Y. Ohhashi, Y. Yamaguchi, H. Kurahashi, Y.O. Kamatari, S. Sugiyama, B. Uluca, T. Piechatzek, Y. Komi, T. Shida, H. Müller, S. Hanashima, H. Heise, K. Kuwata, M. Tanaka: Molecular basis for diversification of yeast prion strain conformation. In: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 115, 2018. S. 2389-2394.
L. Gremer, D. Schölzel, C. Schenk, E. Reinartz, J. Labahn, R. Ravelli, M. Tusche, C. Lopez-Iglesias, W. Hoyer, H. Heise, D. Willbold & G. Schröder: Fibril structure of amyloid-ß(1-42) by cryo-electron microscopy. In: Science, 358, 2017. S. 116-119.
F. Weirich, L. Gremer, E.A. Mirecka, S. Schiefer, W. Hoyer, H. Heise: Structural Characterization of Fibrils from Recombinant Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide by Solid-State NMR: The Central FGAILS Segment is Part of the β-sheet Core. In: PLoS ONE 11, 2016. e0161243.
T. Viennet, A. Viegas, A. Kupper, S. Arens, V. Gelev, O. Petrov, T. N. Grossmann, H. Heise & M. Etzkorn: Selective protein hyperpolarization in cell lysates using targeted dynamic nuclear polarization. In: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 55, 2016. S.10746-50.
Heise, H. et al.: Molecular Level Secondary Structure, Polymorphism and Dynamics of Full-length alpha-Synuclein Fibrils Studied by Solid-State NMR. In: PNAS 102, 2005. S. 15871-15876.
Heise, H. et al.: Solid-state NMR investigations on paramagnetic metallocenium salts: Probing intra- and intermolecular spin density distribution. In: J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 2002. S. 10823-10832.
Heise, H. et al.: Determination of the Spin Distribution in Nitronylnitroxides by Solid-State-NMR Spectroscopy. In: J. Am. Chem. Soc. 121, 1999. S. 9659-9667.
Investigation of membrane protein interactions using high-resolution solid state NMR spectroscopy
Protein misfolding at high resolution using solid state NMR spectroscopy
Chair of the 38th Discussion meeting of the Magnetic resonance division of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) in Düsseldorf September 2016
Ombudsperson for good scientific practice, Heinrich Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Examination Committee for Biochemistry, Heinrich Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Member of the executive committee, GdCh subgroup Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (since 2017)
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