Assistant Professor, Group Leader
max.renner[at]umea.se
Max obtained his PhD from Oxford University, studying structures of pneumovirus transcription components with Prof Jon Grimes and Prof Juha Huiskonen. Following his doctoral work, he secured a Sir Henry Wellcome fellowship to investigate flaviviruses and their interaction with host factors. He then relocated to the University of Göttingen to join the team of Prof. Dr. Rubén Fernández-Busnadiego where his work focused on in situ structural biology of cardiac cells. Since May 2023 Max has taken up a position as assistant professor at the Department of Chemistry of Umeå University.
PhD student
rupesh.jayachandran[at]umu.se
Rupesh graduated with an MSc in Biochemistry and Structural Biology from the University of Helsinki. For his MSc thesis, he identified the epitope of a patient-derived monoclonal antibody on the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein using cryo-EM under the supervision of Dr. Ilona Rissanen and Prof. Juha Huiskonen. He is currently a PhD student in the group, studying the replication machinery of pneumo- and henipaviruses using cryo-EM.
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