Marina Rodnina

Marina V. Rodnina (born 19 November 1960) is a German biochemist.^[1]

Life

Born in Kyiv, Rodnina studied biology at the University of Kyiv and obtained her PhD in molecular biology and genetics in 1989.^[2] From 1990 to 1992, she was a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Witten/Herdecke University.^[2] Afterwards, she was a research assistant at the same university and she received her habilitation in 1997.^[2] From 1998 to 2008, she was a professor at the Witten/Herdecke University.^[2] Since 2008, she is a scientific member and the director of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry.^[2]

Research

Rodnina's research focuses on protein synthesis by and function on the ribosome.^[3] In collaboration with colleagues, she was the first to visualize the activity of a ribosome with the help of a 3D cryo-electron microscope.^[3]

Awards

Rodnina is a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.^[1][3] She was awarded the Hans Neurath Award in 2015,^[4] the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2016,^[5] and the Otto Warburg Medal in 2019.^[6]

Select publications

• Mihaela Diaconu; Ute Kothe; Frank Schlünzen; et al. (1 July 2005). "Structural basis for the function of the ribosomal L7/12 stalk in factor binding and GTPase activation". Cell. 121 (7): 991–1004. doi:10.1016/J.CELL.2005.04.015. ISSN 0092-8674. PMID 15989950. Wikidata Q41627064.
• Stark H; Marina Rodnina; Rinke-Appel J; Brimacombe R; Wintermeyer W; van Heel M (1 September 1997). "Visualization of elongation factor Tu on the Escherichia coli ribosome". Nature. 389 (6649): 403–406. doi:10.1038/38770. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 9311785. Wikidata Q54558215.
• Niels Fischer; Andrey L. Konevega; Wolfgang Wintermeyer; Marina Rodnina; Holger Stark (1 July 2010). "Ribosome dynamics and tRNA movement by time-resolved electron cryomicroscopy". Nature. 466 (7304): 329–333. doi:10.1038/NATURE09206. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 20631791. Wikidata Q41618424.

References

1. "Prof. Dr. Marina Rodnina: Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen (AdW)". adw-goe.de. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
2. "Rodnina, Marina M.V." www.mpg.de. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
3. "Mitgliederverzeichnis". www.leopoldina.org (in German). Retrieved 28 December 2018.
4. "The Protein Society : Protein Society Awards". www.proteinsociety.org. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
5. "DFG – Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – Leibniz-Preise 2016: DFG zeichnet drei Wissenschaftlerinnen und sieben Wissenschaftler aus". www.dfg.de. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
6. "Otto Warburg Medal 2019 for Prof. Dr. Marina Rodnina". GBM. Retrieved 4 April 2020.