Profile
Professional career
- since 08/2021
Staff scientist & NMR manager (AK Matysik), Inst. for Analytical Chemistry, Universität Leipzig, Germany. - 01/2016 - 07/2021
Postdoc research fellow (AK Matysik). Inst. for Analytical Chemistry, Universität Leipzig, Germany. - 09/2012 - 12/2015
Postdoc research fellow (with Prof. J. Matysik). Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, the Netherlands.
Education
- 09/2004 - 01/2008
Ph.D. (dr. scient.) in Biophysical Chemistry. Department of Chemistry, University of Bergen, Norway. - 09/2002 - 08/2004
M.Phil. in Biophysical Chemistry. Department of Chemistry, University of Bergen, Norway.
- Phytochrome from photochemistry to signalling: MAS NMR studies of Cph1 structure/function at atomic resolutionSong, ChenDuration: 05/2019 – 05/2022Funded by: DFG Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Institut für Analytische Chemie
- Köhler, L.; Trunk, F.; Rohr, V.; Fischer, T.; Gärtner, W.; Wachtveitl, J.; Matysik, J.; Slavov, C.; Song, C.Rotameric heterogeneity of conserved tryptophan is responsible for reduced photochemical quantum yield in cyanobacteriochrome slr1393g3ChemPhysChem. 2024. 2 (1). p. e202400453.
- Falkenstein, P.; Zhao, Z.; Di Pede-Mattatelli-, A.; Künze, G.; Sommer, M.; Sonnendecker, C.; Zimmermann, W.; Colizzi, F.; Matysik, J.; Song, C.On the binding mode and molecular mechanism of enzymatic polyethylene terephthalate degradationACS Catalysis. 2023. 13 (10). pp. 6919–6933.
- Köhler, L.; Gärtner, W.; Salvan, G.; Wiebeler, C.; Matysik, J.; Song, C.Photocycle of a cyanobacteriochrome: A charge defect on ring C impairs conjugation in chromophoreChemical Science. 2023. 14 (30). pp. 6295–6308.
- Altmayer, S.; Köhler, L.; Bielytskyi, P.; Gärtner, W.; Matysik, J.; Wiebeler, C.; Song, C.Light- and pH-dependent structural changes in cyanobacteriochrome AnPixJg2Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. 2022. 21 (4). pp. 447–469.
- Köhler, L.; Gärtner, W.; Matysik, J.; Song, C.Long-term preservation of short-lived photoproducts of phytochromes at room temperatureChemPhotoChem. 2022. 6 (3). p. e20210022.