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With ERASMUS from Patras to Berlin: Nickie Messini works in the MX group for protein crystallography

2018-06-20
By: Antonia Roetger
On: 2018-06-20
In: Careers, International, Lightsources, Students

“Growing those crystals in the lab is much more tricky than I thought”, Nickie Messini says. “But I really like it as much as the computational analysis for structure refinement!” The young bachelor student from University of Patras, Greece, has already produced some tiny crystals of the protein Endothiapepsin at the MX lab for protein crystallography at BESSY II. It is not easy to force those large Endothiapepsin molecules into the rigid order of a crystal, but Nickie knows how to achieve it. Endothiapepsin crystals are ideally suited as a model system to facilitate the search for new drugs by a method called fragment screening.Read More →

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