Edward A. Lemke PhD

Dr. Edward Lemke studied Chemistry at the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Oklahoma with a focus on physical and biochemistry. He then joined as a Boehringer Ingelheim fellow the Department of Membranebiophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in G_ttingen for his doctoral work. As part of this Ph.D. thesis, he specialized in advanced fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy studies of synaptic transmission. Supported by the Humboldt foundation he then moved on to the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego (CA) to do joint postdoctoral work in Chemical Biology and Single-Molecule techniques in the Department of Molecular Biology and the Department of Chemistry.

Since 2009 Edward Lemke is an independent Group leader and Emmy Noether Fellow (and since 2015 an ERC consolidator) at the EMBL in Heidelberg, where he is located in the Structural and Computational Biology Unit and jointly appointed with the Cell Biology and Biophysics program. His group utilizes a variety of tools to study the rationale for the enrichment of flexible and disordered proteins in higher organisms. To achieve this, his team works at the interface of biology, chemistry, and physics and develops and combines tools from chemical biology and advanced fluorescence microscopy to study biological dynamics.