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
ery in mammals
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of BiochemistryDates
01/09/2024 to 28/02/2027
Structure and mechanism of the oocyte-specific transcription pre-initiation machinery in mammals
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of BiochemistryDates
01/09/2024 to 28/02/2027
BBI BBSRC Internationalisation Programme
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of BiochemistryDates
01/02/2024 to 29/06/2024
Innovative Future Vaccine Manufacturing and Research Hub 2.0
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of BiochemistryDates
01/09/2023 to 29/02/2028
Innovative Future Vaccine Manufacturing and Research Hub 2.0
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of BiochemistryDates
01/09/2023 to 29/02/2028
Thesis supervisions
Bacterial Production of Soluble Snake Venom Metalloproteinase (SVMP) for High-Throughput Binder Discovery
Supervisors
Harnessing Baculoviruses for Gene Therapy
Supervisors
ADDomer
Supervisors
Engineering pseudotyped baculoviruses for gene editing in mammalian cells
Supervisors
Baculoviral Nanosystems for DNA Delivery and Energy Sensing
Supervisors
ADDomer
Supervisors
Establishing recombinant production protocols for Snake Venom Metalloproteinases to facilitate development of next-generation snakebite treatment
Supervisors
A Baculoviral ‘Swag Bag’ Protein and DNA Delivery Toolkit for CRISPR-based Editing of Human Genomes
Supervisors
The bacterial holo-translocon and friends
Supervisors
Purification of snake venom derived phospholipase A2s
Supervisors
ADDomer Ultimate Thermostability - Producing a Thermostable ADDomer Particle for Use in Next Generation Therapeutics.
Supervisors
SynBac:
Supervisors
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
17/04/2026Cryo-EM Structure of the FtsH Periplasmic Domain Reveals Functional Dynamics
ACS Chemical Biology
Engineering the ADDomer Nanoparticle Vaccine Scaffold for Improved Assembly and Enhanced Stability
ACS Synthetic Biology
Fragment-Derived Nicotinic Acid Analogues Inhibit hCA III and Downregulate CA3 Expression in HepG2 Cells
Biomolecules
Purified zymogens reveal mechanisms of snake venom metalloproteinase auto-activation
eLife
FRET-Based Sensor for Measuring Adenine Nucleotide Binding to AMPK
Nutrient Sensing in Eukaryotes
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Ms Christine Toelzer
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