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Staff Profile

Dr Christin Albus

Research Associate

Background

Email: christin.albus@newcastle.ac.uk

Address: Biosciences Institute
Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research
4th Floor Cookson Building
The Medical School
Newcastle University
Framlington Place
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 4HH

Previous Positions

2018 - 2019 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Durham University, UK

2013 - 2016 HFSP Long-Term Fellow, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

2012 - 2013 Dean of Faculty Fellow, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

2010 - 2011 Postdoctoral Researcher, Max-Planck Institute for Molucular Plant Physiology, Germany

Qualifications

2006 Diploma, University of Münster, Germany

2010 Dr. rer. nat (PhD) Max-Planck Institute for Molucular Plant Physiology and Potsdam University, Germany


Publications

Zorkau M, Albus CA, Berlinguer-Palmini R, Chrzanowska-Lightowlers ZMA, Lightowlers RN. High-resolution imaging reveals compartmentalization of mitochondrial protein synthesis in cultured human cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Feb 9;118(6):e2008778118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2008778118. PMID: 33526660 

Albus CA, Rishal I, Fainzilber M. Cell length sensing for neuronal growth control. Trends Cell Biol. 2013 Jul;23(7):305-10

Albus CA, Salinas A, Czarnecki O, Kahlau S, Rothbart M, Thiele W, Lein W, Bock R, Grimm B, Schöttler MA. LCAA, a novel factor required for magnesium protoporphyrin monomethylester cyclase accumulation and feedback control of aminolevulinic acid biosynthesis in tobacco. Plant Physiol. 2012 Dec;160(4):1923-39.

Krech K, Ruf S, Masduki FF, Thiele W, Bednarczyk D, Albus CA, Tiller N, Hasse C, Schöttler MA, Bock R. The plastid genome-encoded Ycf4 protein functions as a nonessential assembly factor for photosystem I in higher plants. Plant Physiol. 2012 Jun;159(2):579-91

Schöttler MA, Albus CA, Bock R. J Plant Physiol. Photosystem I: its biogenesis and function in higher plants. J Plant Physiol. 2011 Aug 15;168(12):1452-61

Albus CA, Ruf S, Schöttler MA, Lein W, Kehr J, Bock R. Y3IP1, a nucleus-encoded thylakoid protein, cooperates with the plastid-encoded Ycf3 protein in photosystem I assembly of tobacco and Arabidopsis. Plant Cell. 2010 Aug;22(8):2838-55

Publications
  • Zorkau M, Albus CA, Berlinguer-Palmini R, Chrzanowska-Lightowlers ZMA, RN Lightowlers. High-resolution imaging reveals compartmentalisation of mitochondrial protein synthesis in cultured human cells. PNAS 2021, 118(6), e2008778118.
  • Albus CA, Rishal I, Fainzilber M. Cell length sensing for neuronal growth control. Trends Cell Biol 2013, 23(7), 305-310.
  • Krech K, Ruf S, Masduki FF, Thiele W, Bednarczyk D, Albus CA, Tiller N, Hasse C, Schöttler MA, Bock R. The plastid genome-encoded Ycf4 protein functions as a nonessential assembly factor for photosystem I in higher plants. Plant Physiol 2012, 159(02), 579–591.