Scientific experience |
Since 2010
Professor of Chemistry, Otto Diels Institute for Organic Chemistry, University of Kiel
Since 2008
Director, Spectroscopy group, Otto Diels Institute for Organic Chemistry, University of Kiel
Since 2008
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University
2002 - 2007
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University
2000 - 2007
Director of NMR facilities, Cleveland Center for Structural Biology
1995 - 2002
Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University
1992 - 1995
Research Associate at the Protein Engineering Network Centres of Excellence, University of Alberta
1989 - 1992
Post-doctoral Fellow with Prof. Brian Sykes, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Alberta
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Selected publications |
2011
S. Venkataramani, U. Jana, M. Dommaschk, F.D. Sönnichsen, F. Tuczek, R. Herges, Magnetic Bistability of Molecules in Homogeneous Solutions at Room Temperature’, Science 331, 445-448.
2009
W.D. Van Horn, H-K Kim, C.D. Ellis, A. Hadziselimovic, E.S. Sulistijo, M.D. Karra, C Tian, F.D. Sönnichsen, CR Sanders, Solution NMR Structure of the Membrane-integral DAGK Kinase, Science 324, 1726-1729.
2008
N. Holland, S. Tsuda, F.D. Sönnichsen, ‘Two domains of RD3 Antifreeze Protein Diffuse Independently’, Biochemistry 47, 5935-5941.
2007
N.J. Cobb, FD Sönnichsen, H. Mchaourab, W.K. Surewicz, ‘Molecular architecture of human prion protein amyloid, Proc. Nat. Acad Sci., 104, 18946-18951.
2000
Y. Zhang, W. Swietnicki, M.G. Zagorski, W.K. Surewicz, F.D. Sönnichsen, 'Solution Structure of the prion protein variant associated with familial Creutzfeld Jakob disease', J Biol Chem 275, 33650-33654.
1997
H. Chao, P.L. Davies, R.S. Hodges, M. Houston, C.M. Kay, M.C. Loewen, B.D. Sykes, F.D. Sönnichsen, ‘A diminished role for hydrogen bonds in antifreeze protein binding to ice?’ Biochemistry 36, 14652 – 14660.
1996
F.D. Sönnichsen, C.I. DeLuca, P.L. Davies, B.D. Sykes, ‘Refined solution structure of Type III Antifreeze protein: hydrophobic groups may be involved in the energetics of the protein-ice interaction’, Structure 4 (15), 1325-1337.
1996
P. Lavigne, F.D. Sönnichsen, C.M. Kay, R.S. Hodges, ‘On the importance of the interhelical salt-bridges to coiled-coil stability and specificity of dimerization’, Science 271, 1136-1137.
1993
F.D. Sönnichsen, H.L. Chao, P.L. Davies, B.D. Sykes, ‘The Nonhelical Structure of Type III Antifreeze Protein’, Science 259, 1154-1157.
1992
F.D. Sönnichsen, J.E. Van Eyk, R.S. Hodges, B.D. Sykes, ‘Effect of Trifluoroethanol on Protein Secondary Structure: An NMR and CD Study using a Synthetic Actin Peptide’, Biochemistry 31, 8790-8798.
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