Welcome to Maike Bublitz’s Research Site

About me

I am currently a group leader at the Institute of Translational Medicine at the Private University in the Principality of Liechtenstein (UFL).

I received a PhD from the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany), spent several years as a postdoc at Aarhus Universit (Denmark) and have led independent academic research groups since 2014 at the Goethe-University Frankfurt (Germany) and the University of Oxford (UK), where I held an Associate Professorship for Molecular Biophysics at the Department of Biochemistry, and was Ron Bancroft Fellow for Biochemistry at Oriel College.

My research at aims at understanding, how the molecular structure of specific membrane proteins can influence biological functions.
Understanding such structure-function relationships can be the basis for the development of new, personalised drugs and precision medicine.

The plasma membrane, the surrounding layer of all living cells, functions as a physical and chemical barrier between the cell’s inner fluid (the cytosol) and the “outside world”.
I study proteins that are embedded in the plasma membrane of cells, such as human blood cells or pathogenic (disease-causing) fungi and bacteria.

 

 

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Cryo-EM structure of the plasma membrane proton pump from the fungus Neurospora crassa. Animation image prepared in Blender (thanks to Anthony Cheuk, Imperial College London)