Ümit Akbey
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Phone 412-383-9896
Fax 412-648-9008
University of Pittsburgh
2044 Biomedical Science Tower 3
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Education & Training
Undergraduate
Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
B.Sc. in Chemistry, 1999-2005
Graduate
Max Planck Institute (MPIP), Mainz, Germany
Ph.D. in Solid-state NMR, 2005-2008 (with Prof. Hans W. Spiess)
Postgraduate
Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP), Berlin, Germany
Postdoctoral Associate in Structural Biology, 2009-2015 (with Prof. Hartmut Oschkinat)
Aarhus University (iNano - AIAS), Aarhus, Denmark
Assistant Professor, 2015 - 2018
Forschung Zentrum Julich (FZJ), Julich, Germany
Senior Scientist, 2018-2019 (with Prof. Henrike Heise)
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Senior Scientist, 2020-2021 (with Prof. Lucio Frydman)
Radboud University of Science, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Senior Scientist, 2021 (with Prof. Arno Kentgens)
Representative Publications
Ümit Akbey. (2022) Site-specific Protein Methyl Deuterium Quadrupolar Patterns by Proton detected 3D 2H13C1H MAS NMR Spectroscopy. Journal of Biological NMR
Ümit Akbey. (2021) Dynamics of uniformly labelled solid proteins between 100 and 300 K: A 2D 2H13C MAS NMR approach. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 327, 106974
Nelson Ferreira, Emil Gregersen, Zachary A. Sorrentino, Hjalte Gram, Cristine Betzer, Clara Perez-Gozalbo, Marjo Beltoja, Madhu Nagaraj, Jie Wang, Jan S. Nowak, Mingdong Dong, Daniel Otzen, Ümit Akbey, Sissel Schmidt, Morten Meyer, Marina Romero-Ramos, Benoit Giasson, Poul H. Jensen. (2021) Multiple system atrophy-associated oligodendroglial protein p25 alpha stimulates formation of novel alpha-synuclein strain with enhanced neurodegenerative potential. Acta Neuropathologica 142, 1, 87-115
Madhu Nagaraj; Mumdooh Ahmed; Jeppe Lyngso; Brian S. Vad; Andreas Bogglid; Anne Filipsen; Jan Skov Pederson; Daniel Otzen, Ümit Akbey. (2020) Predicted Loop Regions Promote Aggregation: A Study of Amyloidogenic Domains in the Functional Amyloid FapC. Journal of Molecular Biology 432, 7, 2232-2252
Anna König, Daniel Schölzel, Boran Uluca, Thibault Viennet, Ümit Akbey, Henrike Heise. (2019) Hyperpolarized MAS NMR of unfolded and misfolded proteins. Solid State NMR 98, 1-11
Anne Diehl, Yvette Roske , Linda Ball , Anup Chowdhury , Mattias Hiller , Noel Moliere , Regina
Kramer, Daniel Stöppler , Catherine L. Worth , Brigitte Schlegel , Martina Leidert , Nils Cremer , Natalja Erdmann , Daniel Lopez , Heike Stephanowitz , Eberhard Krause , Barth-Jan van Rossum , Peter Schmieder , Udo Heinemann , Kürşad Turgay , Ümit Akbey , Hartmut Oschkinat. (2018) Structural changes of TasA in biofilm formation of Bacillus. PNAS, 27, 115 (13), 3237-3242
Ümit Akbey and Hartmut Oschkinat (2016) Structural Biology Applications of Solid State MAS DNP NMR Journal of Magnetic Resonance 269, 213-224
Ümit Akbey, Andrew J. Nieuwkoop, Sebastian Wegner, Anja Voreck, Britta Kunert, Priyanga Bandara, Frank Engelke, Niels Chr. Nielsen, Hartmut Oschkinat. (2014) Quadruple-Resonance MAS NMR Spectroscopy of Deuterated Solid Proteins. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 53, 2438-2442
Ümit Akbey, Trant Franks, Arne Linden, Marcella Orwick Rydman, Sascha Lange, Hartmut Oschkinat. (2013) Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Enhanced Solid State NMR of Proteins. Topics in Current Chemistry