Maximilian JLJ Fürst

Maximilian JLJ Fürst

Assistant Professor of Computational Protein Design

University of Groningen

In June 2022, Maximilian Fürst (Max) started as an assistant professor at the University of Groningen (UG or RUG) in the Netherlands. His research group investigates the development and application of methods in computational protein design and high-throughput screening. Main targets of interest are enzymes that synthesize or modify cofactors, nucleotides, and nucleic acids, useful for applications in biotechnology, synthetic biology, and pharma.

Before that, Max did a postdoc with Phil Holliger at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, developing high-throughput enzymatic screens to engineer DNA polymerases for synthetic biology applications. He obtained his PhD at the UG in 2019 working on protein engineering of monooxygenases for biocatalysis. His thesis can be obtained here.

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Interests
  • Computational Biology
  • Protein Design
  • High-throughput assays
  • Biocatalysis
  • Nucleic acid-modifying enzymes
Education
  • PhD in Biochemistry, 2019

    University of Groningen

  • MSc in Biology, 2013

    University of Munich

  • BSc in Biology, 2011

    University of Munich

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