Claudia Kielkopf

Postdoc

Claudia did their bachelors from the University of Tübingen (Germany), masters at Linköping University (Sweden), and PhD University of Wollongong (Australia) before joining us as a postdoc in 2020. Her project is on contractile injection systems and their tail fibres, working on protein expression, purification, sample preparation, and cryo EM analysis, alongside bioinformatics and structure prediction. Claudia has experience with expression, purification and vitrification of small soluble proteins as well as eCISs, and “general” cryo-EM and local refinement workflows.