Luiz Schubert
Hey, I am Luiz and I joined the AG Heberle in January 2018 as a PhD student. I studied Chemistry at the HHU Düsseldorf, where I became interested in time-resolved spectroscopy during my bachelor thesis in the group of Prof. Dr. Peter Gilch. My master thesis on Phytochromes, under supervision of Aba Losi and Wolfgang Gärtner in Parma (Italy), introduced me to the exciting field of photoreceptors.
The impact of a simple photochemical reaction on a complex biological system, is what fascinates me in the field of photoreceptors. I deeply enjoy to work in the interdisciplinary field of biophysics and I am glad to be taught how to handle a LASER as well as E.coli.
Freie Universität Berlin
Department of Physics, Institute of Experimental Physics
Experimental Molecular Biophysics
Luiz Schubert, born 1993 in Solingen.
2012-2015 Bachelor of Science Chemistry, HHU Düsseldorf
2015-2017 Master of Science Chemistry, HHU Düsseldorf
My research is focused on the spectroscopic investigation of light-driven proton pumps. Bacteriorhodopsin (bR) is known to translocate protons out of the cell upon light illumination. Recently a structurally related group of membrane proteins, named Xenorhodopsin (XeR), has been discovered. Interestingly XeR shows inwardly directed proton translocation. I want to understand what determines this vectoriality. Therefore I apply different methods of time-resolved infrared spectroscopy covering the time range from nanoseconds up to seconds.