Peter Nollert, PhD

•  Jul 2005 
  In-Membrane Protein Crystallization
•  Apr 1999 
  Long Term Fellow of the Human Frontier Science Program Organization View website
•  Dec 1996 
  Distinguished Schloessmann Fellow of the Max-Planck-Society

Director of Membrane Protein Technologies @ Emerald BioStructures
January 2010 – Present (9 months)
• Membrane Protein Structure Determination (GPCRs, ABC-transporters)
• Membrane protein crystallization research and technology development
• IP, projects, marketing and business development

Director of Emerald BioSystems @ Emerald BioSystems
March 2006 – January 2010 (3 years 11 months)
• Managing operations, research & development and business development activities in the structural proteomics marketplace
• Managing and executing Sales and Marketing, supervising and training new employees
• Managing intellectual property portfolio
• Overseeing product development (crystal imaging, crystallization tools development)
• Managing and hands-on membrane protein crystallization research (GPCRs)


Sr. Research Scientist @ deCODE biostructures
January 2002 – February 2006 (4 years 2 months)
• Hands-on membrane protein structural biology research and development (expression, purification and crystallization; GPCRs)
• Technology development in the area of crystallization robotics, microfluidics and optical polarization microscopy
• Carrying out grant funded basic research and product development driven research (SBRI grant)
• Managing contract research structural biology projects
• Laboratory work: protein engineering, purification, crystallization, binding assay
• Business development worldwide

Postdoc @ UCSF
January 1999 – December 2001 (3 years)
• Crystallization, structure determination and function of the E.coli glycerol channel GlpF
• Development of a high-throughput micro-technology for protein crystallization
• X-ray diffraction experiments at SSRL, ALS, NLS, ESRF
• Quantitative crystallization theory

Postdoc @ Stanford University
January 1999 – April 2001 (2 years 4 months)
• Crystallization of the beta2 adrenergic receptor in lipidic cubic phases

Postdoc @ Biocenter Basel
1997 – 1998 (1 year)
• Membrane protein crystallization in Lipidic Cubic Phases

Membrane protein crystallization technologies
12/2000 – 12/2001 Emerald BioStructures, Bainbridge Is., WA & MediChem Life Sciences, Inc. Chicago, IL