Ulf Skoglund
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Biography
Ulf Skoglund, born 1950, received his Ph.D. in 1969 at Stockholm University, Sweden. He was a Professor 1996 – 2009 at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Since 2010, he is a Professor in Structural Cellular Biology at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan.
He has developed electron-tomographic technologies allowing for images of proteins to be generated so that e.g. X-ray structures can be fitted into the 3D densities. This technique is termed COMET (constrained maximum entropy tomography). His Unit has also developed a large-scale dynamics method that allows for quantitative calculations of molecular movements in solution. Current developments concern the mathematics and improvements of the basic 3D reconstruction principles, as well as work on reconfigurable and high performance computing. His Unit has also been actively pursuing several cell biology projects.
Abstract
Abstract : Structure of Human IgM in complex with the Malaria protein PfEMP1