Dr. Nico Dissmeyer and Prof. Bernhard Westermann can rejoice a jointly achieved success. In the course of this year’s competitive announcement of the Leibniz-DAAD fellowship program, their candidate for the scholarship, Dr. Augustin Catalin Mot, was chosen as a postdoctoral fellow.
Dr. Mot is currently working as a postdoctoral research associate at the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. From 1 November 2013, he will come to Germany for one year and will start his research at the IPB.
His future research topic is an interdepartmental joint project between the Independent Junior Research Group Protein Recognition and Degradation and the research group Synthesis (Dept. Bioorganic Chemistry) and deals mainly with the identification and characterization of plant proteins that are involved in specific protein degradation pathways.
The two-part project aims at first at the construction of chemical sensor probes that potentially lead secondly to the identification of proteolytically active binding proteins of plant-specific protein degradation pathways. The synthesis of the sensor molecules will be accomplished in the Westermann lab within the Dept. of Bioorganic Chemistry. The following in vitro activity assays, biochemical binding studies and finally in vivo studies shall be done in the Dissmeyer lab (Junior Research group).
The research project is a further important contribution to the support of interdepartmental projects with competitive and external funding. We really welcome that and wish Dr. Mot and all collaboration partners much of success!
The Leibniz-DAAD Research Fellowship Program
is a joint support program of the Leibniz Association and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with the aim to attract international excellent young researchers. Applications can be submitted by postdoctoral researchers from all over the world, who are able to prove outstanding academic or research achievements and have completed their PhD thesis no more than two years ago. After a successful application, the scientists receive an annual scholarship and can work at one of 81 Leibniz institutes in fields of humanities and educational research, economic, social and spatial science, life science, mathematics, natural science, engineering as well as environmental sciences.