Professor Imre Berger
MSc (Hannover, Germany), PhD (Cambridge, USA and Hannover, Germany), HDR (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Current positions
Professor of Biochemistry
School of Biochemistry
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
8043 BrisEngBio Pilot Project: Augmentable adhesive domains for glycan-targeted tissue-specific binding
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of BiochemistryDates
01/08/2022 to 31/01/2024
Innovative Future Vaccine Manufacturing and Research Hub - Bridging Funds
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of BiochemistryDates
01/04/2022 to 31/03/2023
EC H2020 - project 963992 — AAV-FACTORY
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of BiochemistryDates
01/02/2021 to 31/07/2022
DNA-DOCK: Precision Docking of Very Large DNA Cargos in Genomes be retained
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of BiochemistryDates
01/09/2019 to 31/08/2024
8043 - BrisSynBio - Support 2 BioDesign fellow posts
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of BiochemistryDates
01/11/2018 to 31/03/2021
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Selected publications
06/11/2020Free fatty acid binding pocket in the locked structure of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
Science
The SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
Cell Research
SynBac: Enhanced Baculovirus Genomes by Iterative Recombineering.
Structural Proteomics
Recent publications
01/02/2023Cryo-EM reveals binding of linoleic acid to SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein, suggesting an antiviral treatment strategy
Acta Crystallographica Section D: Structural Biology
Evaluation and deployment of isotype-specific salivary antibody assays for detecting previous SARS-CoV-2 infection in children and adults
Communications Medicine
Intravascular administration of soluble SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein triggers non-infective heart and lung inflammation and vascular pericytes rarefaction in healthy mice
European Heart Journal Supplements
Molecular dynamics of spike variants in the locked conformation: RBD interfaces, fatty acid binding and furin cleavage sites
SARS-CoV-2 spike variants differ in their allosteric response to linoleic acid
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