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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 resolution

  Song, Chen

  Duration: 05/2019 – 05/2022

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Institut für Analytische Chemie
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• 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 degradation

  ACS Catalysis. 2023. 13 (10). pp. 6919–6933.

  DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.3c00259
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• 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 chromophore

  Chemical Science. 2023. 14 (30). pp. 6295–6308.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3SC00636K
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• Altmayer, S.; Köhler, L.; Bielytskyi, P.; Gärtner, W.; Matysik, J.; Wiebeler, C.; Song, C.

  Light- and pH-dependent structural changes in cyanobacteriochrome AnPixJg2

  Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. 2022. 21 (4). pp. 447–469.

  DOI: 10.1007/s43630-022-00204-4
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• Köhler, L.; Gärtner, W.; Matysik, J.; Song, C.

  Long-term preservation of short-lived photoproducts of phytochromes at room temperature

  ChemPhotoChem. 2022. 6 (3). p. e20210022.

  DOI: 10.1002/cptc.202100220
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• Kim, Y.; Xu, Q.-Z.; Zhao, K.-H.; Gärtner, W.; Matysik, J.; Song, C.

  Lyophilization reveals a multitude of structural conformations in the chromophore of a Cph2-like phytochrome

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2020. 124 (33). pp. 7115–7127.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c03431
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