Maya Topf - group leader

Short Academic Biography 

• 2020 - Professor, CSSB, LIV and UKE, Hamburg

• 2016 - Full Professor, ISMB and Birkbeck, University of London

• 2013 - Reader, ISMB and Birkbeck, University of London

• 2012 - Lecturer, ISMB and Birkbeck, University of London

• 2006 - MRC Career Development Fellow: ISMB and Birkbeck, London

• 2003 - Post-doctoral research: University of California San Francisco (Andrej Sali lab)

• 2002 - D.Phil: University of Oxford

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Research Interests & Current Project

• 3D electron microscopy image analysis;

• Structures of macromolecular assemblies by data integration

• Viral protein-protein interaction networks;

• Modelling of membrane proteins and small-molecule interactions;

• Herpesviruses, pore-forming proteins, ligand-gated ion channels, microtubule complexes