User:Torsten Waldminghaus

Me after not brushing my teeth for 4 weeks

Hi, my name is Torsten Waldminghaus, and I'm currently Postdoc at the Norwegian Radium Hospital in Oslo (Norway) in Kirsten Skarstads lab. I was let to OpenWetWare by google, searching for certain protocols. I just started my Postdoc time and I'm going to set up a bunch of methods that have not been done in my new lab. So I benefit a lot from people sharing their protocols on the internet and thought it might be a good idea to also let the world participate on my wisdom and experince. That' why I'm here. If you still want to you can email me through OpenWetWare. Below I'll describe a bit more about myself and the stuff I'm interested in.

CV

• Since 2007 Postdoc at the Department of Cell Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo (Norway) in the lab of Kirsten Skarstad

• 2004-2007 PhD at the Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany) PhD-thesis: ‘RNA-thermometers in bacteria’ in the lab of Franz Narberhaus

• 2002-2004 Studies in bioinformatics at the University of applied science Berlin (Germany) Master-thesis: ‘In silico analysis and selection of RNA secondary structures’ at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology under supervision of Volker Patzel

• 1999-2002 Studies in biology at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald (Germany) Diploma-thesis: ‘Investigations on the expression of clpX in Bacillus subtilis’ at the Division for Microbial Physiology and Molecular Biology in the lab of Michael Hecker

• 1996-1999 Basic studies in biology at the University of Potsdam (Germany)

• 1996 Theological studies and volunteer at the International Torchbearer Bibleschool in Holsby Brunn (Sweden)

Research interests

In general I love bacteria and complex systems.

A bit more detailed I enjoy working on:

• RNA dependent or other gene regulation
• RNA structure bioinformatics
• Regulation of replication in bacteria
• Searching funny patterns on chromosomes or in proteins

Publications

Waldminghaus T, Gaubig L. C., Narberhaus F. 2007. ROSE RNA thermometer in Escherichia coli: structural basis for thermo sensing. Nucleic Acid Research (submitted)

Waldminghaus T, Gaubig L. C., Narberhaus F. 2007. Genome-wide bioinformatic prediction and experimental evaluation of potential RNA thermometers. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 278(5):555-564.

Waldminghaus T., Heidrich N., Brantl S., Narberhaus F. 2007. FourU: a novel type of RNA thermometer in Salmonella. Molecular Microbiology 65(2):413-424.

Narberhaus F., Waldminghaus T., Chowdhury S. 2006. RNA thermometers. FEMS Microbiological Reviews 30(1):3-16.

Waldminghaus T., Fippinger A., Alfsmann J., Narberhaus F. 2005. RNA thermometers are common in α- and γ-proteobacteria. Biological Chemistry 386(12):1279-1286.

Gerth U., Kirstein J., Mostertz J., Waldminghaus T., Miethke M., Kock H., Hecker M. 2004. Fine-tuning in regulation of Clp protein content in Bacillus subtilis. Journal of Bacteriology 186(1):179-91.