User:Casper de Lichtenberg (UMU)

=== Current Occupation: === Casper de Lichtenberg is a Ph.D student at Umeå University with the Messinger group at the department of Chemistry. Casper is currently based in Uppsala as visiting Ph.D student.

Casper works with elucidation of the water splitting mechanism in the protein-pigment complex Photosystem II, using a combination of different biophysical methods, including X-ray diffraction, Mass spectrometry and EPR spectroscopy. Most of these studies are time-resolved and require high precission timing.

Previous Occupation:
Casper did his bachelors and masters in biochemistry in the Structural Biology and NMR laboratory at the Department of Biology at The University of Copenhagen. Here he worked with the extraordinary stability of proteins from hyperthermophilic archaea living at 70-90 degrees and pH 2-4.

List of publications (newest to oldest)
The extraordinary thermal stability of EstA from S. islandicus is independent of post translational modifications

Structure of the competence pilus major pilin ComGC in Streptococcus pneumoniae

Drop-on-demand sample delivery for studying biocatalysts in action at X-ray free-electron lasers

Structure of photosystem II and substrate binding at room temperature