Genome Organization And Function In The Cell Nucleus

Karsten Rippe leads the Research Group Genome Organization & Function at the German Cancer Research Center and the BioQuant Institute in Heidelberg, Germany. In his research, he combines molecular/cell biology and physics to quantitatively investigate and model the relation between nuclear DNA organization and cell function. Karsten Rippe has obtained his academic degrees from the University of Gottingen while working at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and continued his scientific career at the University of Oregon in Eugene and the Kirchhoff-Institut fur Physik in Heidelberg. He has authored more than 80 scientific publications in the fields of DNA structure, transcription and chromatin and has received several scientific awards, including the Otto Hahn medal of the Max Planck Society and the European Beckman DNA Award.