Petra Fromme
Arizona State University, USA
Biography
Petra Fromme received her masters at the Free University in Berlin in Biochemistry (1985) and then received her doctorate in Chemistry at the Technical University in Berlin (1988) where she then became a professor in 1992. During this time she developed and pursued her fascination with understanding the function of membrane proteins by investigating and determining their atomic structures. In 2002, Dr. Fromme joined Arizona State University as a professor of Chemistry and Biochemsitry where she has worked with distinguished colleagues from around the world to pioneer a new technique for imaging proteins using extraordinarily powerful x-ray lasers that has the capability to make movies of these fascinating proteins in action.
Abstract
Abstract : Dynamics of Biomolecules “In Action†Studied with X-ray Free Electron Lasers