Franziska Dürr

ECF s factors

ECF classification

ECF regulation

ECF switches and circuits

Biosensors

Since 2015
PhD Student, General Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology, TU Dresden

2012 – 2015
Master of Science degree in Biology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich, Germany; Master Thesis: Investigation of a heterologous ECF41 sigma factor from Streptomyces venezuelae in Bacillus subtilis

2009 – 2012
Bachelor of Science degree in Biology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich, Germany; Bachelor Thesis: Investigation of the Expression of Functional Fusion Proteins Based on Spore Crust Proteins in Bacillus subtilis

2006 – 2007
High school: Lake City High School in Lake City, MI, USA

2000 – 2009
Secondary school: Otto-Hahn-Gymnasium in Nagold, Germany (Abitur)

Wu H., Liu Q., Casas-Pastor D., Dürr F., Mascher T., Fritz G. (2019): The role of C-terminal extensions in controlling ECF σ factor activity in the widely conserved groups ECF41 and ECF42. Mol Microbiol 112(2): 498-514. DOI: 10.1111/mmi.14261. Pubmed

Pinto D., Dürr F., Froriep F., Araújo D., Mascher T. (2019): Extraxytoplasmic Function σ Factors Can Be Implemented as Robust Heterologous Genetic Switches in Bacillus subtilis. iScience 13: 380-390. DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2019.03.001. Pubmed

Gaballa A., Guariglia-Oropeza V., Dürr F., Bucher BG., Chen AY., Chandrangsu P., Helmann JD. (2018): Modulation of extracyctoplasmic function (ECF) sigma factor promoter selectivity by spacer region sequence. Nucleic Acids Res 46(1):134-145. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx953. Pubmed

Radeck J., Kraft K., Bartels J., Cikovic T., Dürr F., Emenegger J., Kelterborn S., Fritz G., Gebhard S., Mascher T. (2013): The Bacillus BioBrick Box: generation and evaluation of essential genetic building blocks for standardized work with Bacillus subtilis. J Biol Eng 7(1): 29. DOI: 10.1186/1754-1611-7-29. Pubmed

Cikovic T, Bartels J, Dürr F, Emenegger J, Kelterborn S, Kraft K, Radeck J, Mascher T. (2013): Projekt Beadzillus. BIOspektrum 19:222-223. DOI: 10.1007/s12268-013-0297-x. Springer

Visiting Scientist

09/2015 - 03/2016
Research stay at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK, in the laboratory of Mark Buttner; Focus: Streptomyces genetics and ChIP-Seq analyses

09/2015 - 03/2016
Research stay at Cornell University in NY, USA, in the laboratory of John Helmann; Focus: Protein purification and in vitro transcription

Conferences

2018
How microorganisms view their world in Marburg, Germany; Poster presentation: “A Census of Extracytoplasmic Function s Factors in Underrepresented and Newly Discovered Bacterial Phyla”

2017
ISBA18: 18^th International Symposium on the Biology of Actinomycetes in Jeju, Korea; Poster presentation: “Investigation of ECF41 s Factors in Streptomyces venezuelae”

2015
Vereinigung für Allgemeine und Angewandte Mikrobiologie (VAAM) Jahrestagung 2015 in Marburg, Germany; Poster presentation: “En route to an optimized synthetic promoter environment of Bacillus subtilis”

Awards

2012
Lehre@LMU research award for excellent students (as part of the LMU iGEM Team 2012)

“Best New Application” Award as part of the LMU iGEM Team 2012; Project: Beadzillus

“Best Wiki” Award as part of the LMU iGEM Team 2012, Project: Beadzillus