Joachim Seelig Explained

Joachim Seelig
Birth Date:29 March 1942
Birth Place:Cologne[1]
Nationality:German
Field:Physical chemist
Work Institutions:University of Cologne, Biozentrum University of Basel

Joachim Heinrich Seelig (born 29 March 1942)[1] is a German physical chemist and specialist in NMR Spectroscopy. He is one of the founding fathers of the Biozentrum of the University of Basel.[2] He reached emeritus status in 2012.[3]

Life

Joachim Seelig studied chemistry and physics from 1961 till 1966 at the University of Cologne. In 1968 he graduated with a doctorate under the guidance of Manfred Eigen at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen. As a postdoc he conducted research on electron spin resonance at Stanford University in 1968/69. In 1970 he moved as a postdoc to the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the University of Basel where he became a group leader and assistant professor in 1972. He became full professor in 1974 and in 1982 Professor of Structural Biology at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel.[4]

Work

Joachim Seelig developed biophysical methods for studying the structure and thermodynamic properties of biological cell membranes.[5] He investigated the interactions of proteins and lipids by EPR-spectroscopy, deuterium and phosphorus nuclear magnetic resonance, neutron diffraction and calorimetric methods.[6] The quantitative characterization of the biological membrane became the international standard for further theoretical studies. His second field of research was magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) in the human and animals.[7] With C-13 NMR the metabolism in the human and animal brain could be traced in a non-invasive manner. With faster MRI imaging techniques the tonotopy of the human brain has been described.

Awards and honors

References

  1. Web site: Curriculum Vitae Joachim Seelig . ae-info.org . 2020-07-28.
  2. Web site: Die Entstehung und Funktion des Biozentrums . unigeschichte.unibas.ch . 2013-11-19 . 2013-09-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130928090529/http://www.unigeschichte.unibas.ch/cms/upload/FaecherUndFakultaeten/Downloads/Engel_Biozentrum.pdf . dead .
  3. Web site: Prof. Dr. Joachim Seelig, Emeritus . biozentrum.unibas.ch. 2023-09-19.
  4. Web site: Official website . Biozentrum.unibas.ch . 2013-11-18.
  5. Web site: Lipid conformation in model membranes and biological membranes . rero.ch . 2020-07-28.
  6. Deuterium and phosphorus nuclear magnetic resonance and fluorescence depolarization studies of functional reconstituted sarcoplasmic reticulum membrane vesicles . 1981 . acs.org . 10.1021/bi00516a040 . 2020-07-28. Seelig . Joachim . Tamm . Lukas . Hymel . Lin . Fleischer . Sidney . Biochemistry . 20 . 13 . 3922–3932 . 7272285 .
  7. NMR imaging and spectroscopy in vivo . 1986 . springer.com . 10.1007/BF00473170 . 2020-07-28. Seelig . Joachim . Fresenius' Zeitschrift für Analytische Chemie . 324 . 8 . 767–770 . 101538266 .
  8. http://www.cloetta-stiftung.ch/en/cloetta-preis/ Cloëtta-Prize
  9. Web site: Bijvoet Medal. Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research. 2017-09-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20170912191415/http://bijvoet-center.eu/bijvoet-medal/. 2017-09-12. dead.
  10. http://www.heinrich-wieland-preis.de/index/laureates Heinrich Wieland Laureates
  11. http://www.eurostar-science.org/conferences/ph5award.htm Award "Applied Physical Chemistry" 2000
  12. Web site: J.H. Seelig . https://web.archive.org/web/20160214183824/https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/foreign-members/5920 . Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences . 14 February 2016 . 14 February 2016.
  13. http://www.biophysics.org/AwardsOpportunities/SocietyAwards/AvantiAwardinLipids/tabid/483/Default.aspx Avanti Award in Lipids Winner

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