Prof. Dr. Zoya Ignatova

Foto: UHH

Group Leader

Anschrift

Universität Hamburg

Fachbereich Chemie

Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie

Martin -Luther-King-Platz 6

20146 Hamburg

Büro

BCII

Raum: 110

Kontakt

Tel.: +49 40 42838-2332

E-Mail: zoya.ignatova"AT"chemie.uni-hamburg.de

Schwerpunkte

RNA structure and function
Protein translation and co-translation folding
System biology of translation
Tissue- and cell-specific translation
Disease-related perturbations of translation

Academic profile

PhD with Volker Kasche within the Graduate School of TU Hamburg Harburg and University Hamburg. Post-doc with Lila Gierasch at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. Group Leader at MPI for Biochemistry, Martinsried. Tenure-track professor for Biochemistry at University of Potsdam and since 2014 full professor in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Hamburg. Since 2016 Managing Director of Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Prizes, awards, memberships

Heisenberg fellowship award; Lundbeck foundation, Denmark; Joliot professorship at ESPCI, Paris, France; Innovation award, MDI BioLab, Maine, USA; Hamburg teaching award; Claussen-Simon-Stiftung award for distinguished project within ‘Our Universities’; Member of the German Society for Cell Biology and German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Member-at-large of the American Biophysical Society.