Gunnar von Heijne
Gunnar von Heijne | |
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 Gunnar von Heijne atISMBin 2012 | |
| Born | Nils Gunnar Hansson von Heijne 10 June 1951 |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Awards | Björkénska priset(1998) Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Royal Institute of Technology |
| Institutions | Stockholm University,Karolinska Institutet |
ProfessorNilsGunnarHansson von Heijne,born 10 June 1951 inGothenburg,is a Swedish scientist[2]working onsignal peptides,membrane proteins[3][4][5]andbioinformatics[6][7]at the Stockholm Center for Biomembrane Research atStockholm University.
Education
[edit]Gunnar von Heijne graduated 1975 with aMaster of Sciencedegree in chemistry andchemical engineeringfrom theRoyal Institute of Technology(KTH).[8]He then became a doctoral student intheoretical physicsat KTH, in a research group focussing onstatistical mechanicsand theoreticalbiophysics,and was awarded hisPh.D.in 1980.[9]In 1983 he was madedocentin theoretical biophysics at KTH, where he remained until 1988. 1982-1985 he was active as a science reporter atSveriges Radio.1989-1994 he was active atKarolinska Institutet,and in 1994 he was made aprofessorintheoretical chemistryatStockholm University.[8]
Research
[edit]von Heijne's research primarily concernsmembrane proteins,and he is one of the most cited Swedish scientists in the areas ofbiochemistryandmolecular biology.[10]He heads theCenter for Biomembrane Researchat Stockholm University.[11]
Awards
[edit]In 2012 he was awarded theAccomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award[1]by theInternational Society for Computational Biology.
von Heijne is a member of theRoyal Swedish Academy of Sciencessince 1997 and a member of theNobel Committee for Chemistryfrom 2001 to 2009, and the Committees chairman from 2007 to 2009. In 2008, he received an honorary doctorate atÅbo Akademi.[10]
References
[edit]- ^abMullins, J.; Morrison Mckay, B. J. (2012)."International Society for Computational Biology Honours Gunnar von Heijne and Ziv Bar-Joseph with Top Bioinformatics/Computational Biology Awards for 2012".PLOS Computational Biology.8(5): e1002535.Bibcode:2012PLSCB...8E2535M.doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002535.PMC3364933.
- ^https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=saY_ivoAAAAJGunnar von Heijne publications inGoogle Scholar
- ^Emanuelsson, O.; Nielsen, H.;Brunak, S. R.;Von Heijne, G.(2000). "Predicting Subcellular Localization of Proteins Based on their N-terminal Amino Acid Sequence".Journal of Molecular Biology.300(4): 1005–1016.doi:10.1006/jmbi.2000.3903.PMID10891285.S2CID30441491.
- ^Nielsen, H.; Engelbrecht, J.; Brunak, S.; Von Heijne, G. (1997)."Identification of prokaryotic and eukaryotic signal peptides and prediction of their cleavage sites".Protein Engineering Design and Selection.10(1): 1–6.doi:10.1093/protein/10.1.1.PMID9051728.
- ^Krogh, A.;Larsson, B. R.;Von Heijne, G.;Sonnhammer, E. L. L. (2001). "Predicting transmembrane protein topology with a hidden markov model: Application to complete genomes".Journal of Molecular Biology.305(3): 567–580.doi:10.1006/jmbi.2000.4315.PMID11152613.S2CID15769874.
- ^Dyrløv Bendtsen, J.; Nielsen, H.;Von Heijne, G.;Brunak, S.(2004). "Improved Prediction of Signal Peptides: SignalP 3.0".Journal of Molecular Biology.340(4): 783–795.CiteSeerX10.1.1.165.2784.doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2004.05.028.PMID15223320.
- ^Von Heijne, G.(1986)."A new method for predicting signal sequence cleavage sites".Nucleic Acids Research.14(11): 4683–4690.doi:10.1093/nar/14.11.4683.PMC311474.PMID3714490.
- ^abGunnar von Heijne's CVArchived2008-12-03 at theWayback Machine
- ^Heijne, Gunnar von (1980):Some theoretical aspects of the structure, function and evolution of biological macromolecules,Diss., Stockholm
- ^abPress release from Åbo Akademi:Åbo Akademi kreerar fjorton nya hedersdoktorer[permanent dead link](in Swedish)
- ^Stockholm Center for Biomembrane ResearchArchived2009-09-17 at theWayback Machine,accessed on August 3, 2009
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- 1951 births
- Living people
- Swedish bioinformaticians
- Swedish chemists
- Swedish physicists
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology alumni
- Academic staff of the Karolinska Institute
- Academic staff of Stockholm University
- Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Fellows of the International Society for Computational Biology
- Computational chemists