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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

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Andrea Wachner

Goethe University FrankfurtCampus Riedberg, BMLSMax-von-Laue-Str. 1560438 Frankfurt am MainGermany

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Achilleas Frangakis

Professor in Electron Cryo-Microscopy,
Institute for Biophysics


Curriculum Vitae

2001PhD, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry,
Martinsried, Germany
2002Post doc, Caltech, Pasadena, California, USA
2003–2008Group Leader, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
since 2008Professor 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

This colleague is a member of the following groups:
  • Electron Microscopy