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Martin Beck studied Biochemistry at the Martin Luther University Halle/Wittenberg. He did his PhD studies with Wolfgang Baumeister at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried. In 2006 he moved to Ruedi Aebersold’s laboratory at the Institute of Molecular Systems Biology at ETH Zurich for his postdoctoral training. Martin Beck was a research group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 2010-2020. Since 2019 he is a director at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt.

In eukaryotes, the genetic information is concealed into the nucleus that shields it from the cellular surroundings. Martin Beck’s research focuses on nucleocytoplasmic transport, i.e., how molecules are transported in and out of the nucleus. His laboratory has pioneered integrative, in situ structural biology techniques to study the structure, function, assembly and turnover of nuclear pore complexes in their native environment. They elucidated the scaffold architecture of the human nuclear pore, visualized nuclear pore dilation and constriction movements inside of cells and discovered a maternal biogenesis pathway that inherits nuclear pores to the early embryo. Martin Beck is a member of EMBO. His work has been awarded the starting, consolidator and advanced grants of the European Research Council.

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