
Contact
Prof. Dr.
Achilleas Frangakis
Cluster of Excellence
Macromolecular Complexes
Institute of Biophysics
Goethe University Frankfurt
Campus Riedberg, BMLS
Max-von-Laue-Str. 15
60438 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Tel +49 (0)69 798-46462
Fax +49 (0)69 798-46467
Secretary
Andrea Wachner
Goethe University FrankfurtCampus Riedberg, BMLSMax-von-Laue-Str. 1560438 Frankfurt am MainGermany
Tel +49 (0)69 798-46466
e-mail (Andrea Wachner)
Achilleas Frangakis
Professor in Electron Cryo-Microscopy,Institute for Biophysics
Curriculum Vitae
| 2001 | PhD, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany |
| 2002 | Post doc, Caltech, Pasadena, California, USA |
| 2003–2008 | Group Leader, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany |
| since 2008 | Professor in Electron Cryo-Mycroscopy, Cluster of Excellence "Macromolecular Complexes", Goethe University Frankfurt |
Team
Achilleas Frangakis, Group Leader
Dimitra Keramisanou, Postdoctoral Fellow
Maria Kokkinopoulou, PhD Student
Mikhail Eltsov, Postdoctoral Fellow
Margot Scheffer, PhD Student
Anja Seybert, Laboratory Officer in Charge
Sylvain Trepout, Postdoctoral Fellow
Zhou Yu, PhD Student
Publications
Three-dimensional visualization of the molecular architecture of cell-cell junctions in situ by cryo-electron tomography of vitreous sections. Al-Amoudi, A; Frangakis, AS; Methods Mol Biol, 2013 PubMed
3D Ultrastructural organization of whole Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cells studied by nanoscale soft x-ray tomography. Hummel, E; Guttmann, P; Werner, S; Tarek, B; Schneider, G; Kunz, M; Frangakis, AS; Westermann, B; PLoS One, 2012 PubMed
Heritable yeast prions have a highly organized three-dimensional architecture with interfiber structures. Saibil, HR; Seybert, A; Habermann, A; Winkler, J; Eltsov, M; Perkovic, M; Castaño-Diez, D; Scheffer, MP; Haselmann, U; Chlanda, P; Lindquist, S; Tyedmers, J; Frangakis, AS; Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2012 Sep PubMed
Room temperature L1₀ phase transformation in binary CoPt nanostructures prepared by focused-electron-beam-induced deposition. Porrati, F; Begun, E; Winhold, M; Schwalb, ChH; Sachser, R; Frangakis, AS; Huth, M; Nanotechnology, 2012 May PubMed
Human mitotic chromosomes consist predominantly of irregularly folded nucleosome fibres without a 30-nm chromatin structure. Nishino, Y; Eltsov, M; Joti, Y; Ito, K; Takata, H; Takahashi, Y; Hihara, S; Frangakis, AS; Imamoto, N; Ishikawa, T; Maeshima, K; EMBO J, 2012 Apr PubMed
Atheroprotective communication between endothelial cells and smooth muscle cells through miRNAs. Hergenreider, E; Heydt, S; Tréguer, K; Boettger, T; Horrevoets, AJ; Zeiher, AM; Scheffer, MP; Frangakis, AS; Yin, X; Mayr, M; Braun, T; Urbich, C; Boon, RA; Dimmeler, S; Nat Cell Biol, 2012 Mar PubMed
Nucleosomes stacked with aligned dyad axes are found in native compact chromatin in vitro. Scheffer, MP; Eltsov, M; Bednar, J; Frangakis, AS; J Struct Biol, 2012 May PubMed
Binary Pt-Si nanostructures prepared by focused electron-beam-induced deposition. Winhold, M; Schwalb, CH; Porrati, F; Sachser, R; Frangakis, AS; Kämpken, B; Terfort, A; Auner, N; Huth, M; ACS Nano, 2011 Dec PubMed
Evidence for short-range helical order in the 30-nm chromatin fibers of erythrocyte nuclei. Scheffer, MP; Eltsov, M; Frangakis, AS; Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2011 Oct PubMed
The three-dimensional molecular structure of the desmosomal plaque. Al-Amoudi, A; Castaño-Diez, D; Devos, DP; Russell, RB; Johnson, GT; Frangakis, AS; Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2011 Apr PubMed
Classification of electron sub-tomograms with neural networks and its application to template-matching. Yu, Z; Frangakis, AS; J Struct Biol, 2011 Jun PubMed
Structure of reconstituted bacterial membrane efflux pump by cryo-electron tomography. Trépout, S; Taveau, JC; Benabdelhak, H; Granier, T; Ducruix, A; Frangakis, AS; Lambert, O; Biochim Biophys Acta, 2010 Oct PubMed
Visualization of macromolecular structures. O'Donoghue, SI; Goodsell, DS; Frangakis, AS; Jossinet, F; Laskowski, RA; Nilges, M; Saibil, HR; Schafferhans, A; Wade, RC; Westhof, E; Olson, AJ; Nat Methods, 2010 Mar PubMed
Alignator: a GPU powered software package for robust fiducial-less alignment of cryo tilt-series. Castaño-Díez, D; Scheffer, M; Al-Amoudi, A; Frangakis, AS; J Struct Biol, 2010 Apr PubMed
Quantitative and spatio-temporal features of protein aggregation in Escherichia coli and consequences on protein quality control and cellular ageing. Winkler, J; Seybert, A; König, L; Pruggnaller, S; Haselmann, U; Sourjik, V; Weiss, M; Frangakis, AS; Mogk, A; Bukau, B; EMBO J, 2010 Mar PubMed
Proteome organization in a genome-reduced bacterium. Kühner, S; van Noort, V; Betts, MJ; Leo-Macias, A; Batisse, C; Rode, M; Yamada, T; Maier, T; Bader, S; Beltran-Alvarez, P; Castaño-Diez, D; Chen, WH; Devos, D; Güell, M; Norambuena, T; Racke, I; Rybin, V; Schmidt, A; Yus, E; Aebersold, R; Herrmann, R; Böttcher, B; Frangakis, AS; Russell, RB; Serrano, L; Bork, P; Gavin, AC; Science, 2009 Nov PubMed
Cytoplasmic relaxation of active Eph controls ephrin shedding by ADAM10. Janes, PW; Wimmer-Kleikamp, SH; Frangakis, AS; Treble, K; Griesshaber, B; Sabet, O; Grabenbauer, M; Ting, AY; Saftig, P; Bastiaens, PI; Lackmann, M; PLoS Biol, 2009 Oct PubMed
Analysis of cryo-electron microscopy images does not support the existence of 30-nm chromatin fibers in mitotic chromosomes in situ. Eltsov, M; Maclellan, KM; Maeshima, K; Frangakis, AS; Dubochet, J; Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2008 Dec PubMed
Performance evaluation of image processing algorithms on the GPU. Castaño-Díez, D; Moser, D; Schoenegger, A; Pruggnaller, S; Frangakis, AS; J Struct Biol, 2008 Oct PubMed
A visualization and segmentation toolbox for electron microscopy. Pruggnaller, S; Mayr, M; Frangakis, AS; J Struct Biol, 2008 Oct PubMed
Structural studies on desmosomes. Al-Amoudi, A; Frangakis, AS; Biochem Soc Trans, 2008 Apr PubMed
Reprint of "Fiducial-less alignment of cryo-sections" [J. Struct. Biol. 159 (2007) 413-423]. Castaño-Díez, D; Al-Amoudi, A; Glynn, AM; Seybert, A; Frangakis, AS; J Struct Biol, 2008 Mar PubMed
The molecular architecture of cadherins in native epidermal desmosomes. Al-Amoudi, A; Díez, DC; Betts, MJ; Frangakis, AS; Nature, 2007 Dec PubMed
Classification of cryo-electron sub-tomograms using constrained correlation. Förster, F; Pruggnaller, S; Seybert, A; Frangakis, AS; J Struct Biol, 2008 Mar PubMed
Fiducial-less alignment of cryo-sections. Castaño-Díez, D; Al-Amoudi, A; Glynn, AM; Seybert, A; Frangakis, AS; J Struct Biol, 2007 Sep PubMed
Plastic-embedded protein crystals. Ravelli, RB; Haselmann-Weiss, U; McGeehan, JE; McCarthy, AA; Marquez, JA; Antony, C; Frangakis, AS; Stranzl, G; J Synchrotron Radiat, 2007 Jan PubMed
Visualization of cell microtubules in their native state. Bouchet-Marquis, C; Zuber, B; Glynn, AM; Eltsov, M; Grabenbauer, M; Goldie, KN; Thomas, D; Frangakis, AS; Dubochet, J; Chrétien, D; Biol Cell, 2007 Jan PubMed
Implementation and performance evaluation of reconstruction algorithms on graphics processors. Castaño Díez, D; Mueller, H; Frangakis, AS; J Struct Biol, 2007 Jan PubMed
Multiple large filament bundles observed in Caulobacter crescentus by electron cryotomography. Briegel, A; Dias, DP; Li, Z; Jensen, RB; Frangakis, AS; Jensen, GJ; Mol Microbiol, 2006 Oct PubMed
Structural analysis of Mycoplasma pneumoniae by cryo-electron tomography. Seybert, A; Herrmann, R; Frangakis, AS; J Struct Biol, 2006 Nov PubMed
Tilt-series and electron microscope alignment for the correction of the non-perpendicularity of beam and tilt-axis. Díez, DC; Seybert, A; Frangakis, AS; J Struct Biol, 2006 May PubMed
Cryo-electron tomography reveals the cytoskeletal structure of Spiroplasma melliferum. Kürner, J; Frangakis, AS; Baumeister, W; Science, 2005 Jan PubMed
Computational exploration of structural information from cryo-electron tomograms. Frangakis, AS; Förster, F; Curr Opin Struct Biol, 2004 Jun PubMed
Macromolecular architecture in eukaryotic cells visualized by cryoelectron tomography. Medalia, O; Weber, I; Frangakis, AS; Nicastro, D; Gerisch, G; Baumeister, W; Science, 2002 Nov PubMed
Identification of macromolecular complexes in cryoelectron tomograms of phantom cells. Frangakis, AS; Böhm, J; Förster, F; Nickell, S; Nicastro, D; Typke, D; Hegerl, R; Baumeister, W; Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2002 Oct PubMed
Segmentation of two- and three-dimensional data from electron microscopy using eigenvector analysis. Frangakis, AS; Hegerl, R; J Struct Biol, PubMed
Noise reduction in electron tomographic reconstructions using nonlinear anisotropic diffusion. Frangakis, AS; Hegerl, R; J Struct Biol, 2001 Sep PubMed
FhuA-mediated phage genome transfer into liposomes: a cryo-electron tomography study. Böhm, J; Lambert, O; Frangakis, AS; Letellier, L; Baumeister, W; Rigaud, JL; Curr Biol, 2001 Aug PubMed
Wavelet transform filtering and nonlinear anisotropic diffusion assessed for signal reconstruction performance on multidimensional biomedical data. Frangakis, AS; Stoschek, A; Hegerl, R; IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, 2001 Feb PubMed
Toward detecting and identifying macromolecules in a cellular context: template matching applied to electron tomograms. Bohm, J; Frangakis, AS; Hegerl, R; Nickell, S; Typke, D; Baumeister, W; Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2000 Dec PubMed
Cryo-electron tomography of neurospora mitochondria. Nicastro, D; Frangakis, AS; Typke, D; Baumeister, W; J Struct Biol, 2000 Feb PubMed
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