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Joachim Heberle is affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin in Germany and has an extensive publication record primarily in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and neuroscience. Their research spans various subfields, including molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, biomedical engineering, atomic and molecular physics, and optics, as well as electrical and electronic engineering.

The scientist's work covers multiple topics, with a focus on photoreceptor and optogenetics research, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, lipid membrane structure and behavior, spectroscopy techniques in biomedical and chemical research, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, molecular communication and nanonetworks, and spectroscopy and laser applications.

Joachim Heberle has published recent papers in notable journals, including:

  • Femtosecond-to-millisecond structural changes in a light-driven sodium pump, 2020, Nature
  • Surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy, 2023, Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering and Surface-Enhanced Infrared Absorption by Plasmon Polaritons in Three-Dimensional Nanoparticle Supercrystals, 2021, ACS Nano
  • Dynamics and mechanism of a light-driven chloride pump, 2022, Science
  • Spectroscopic investigations under whole-cell conditions provide new insight into the metal hydride chemistry of [FeFe]-hydrogenase, 2020, Chemical Science

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors, among whom are Ramona Schlesinger, Kenichi Ataka, Luiz Schubert, Katerina Kanevche, and Jacek Kozuch.

Joachim Heberle's work has appeared regularly in several journals, including Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, Biophysical Journal, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, and The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

Best Publications

  • Assembly of tau protein into Alzheimer paired helical filaments depends on a local sequence motif ((306)VQIVYK(311)) forming beta structure.

    M. von Bergen;P. Friedhoff;J. Biernat;J. Heberle

  • Structural analysis and mapping of individual protein complexes by infrared nanospectroscopy

    Iban Amenabar;Simon Poly;Wiwat Nuansing;Elmar H. Hubrich

  • Proton migration along the membrane surface and retarded surface to bulk transfer

    Joachim Heberle;Jens Riesle;Gerd Thiedemann;Dieter Oesterhelt

  • Oriented attachment and membrane reconstitution of His-tagged cytochrome c oxidase to a gold electrode: in situ monitoring by surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy.

    Kenichi Ataka;Frank Giess;Wolfgang Knoll;Renate Naumann

  • The protein-tethered lipid bilayer: a novel mimic of the biological membrane

    Frank Giess;Marcel G. Friedrich;Joachim Heberle;Renate L. Naumann

  • Phot-LOV1: Photocycle of a blue-light receptor domain from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

    Tilman Kottke;Joachim Heberle;Dominic Hehn;Bernhard Dick

  • Proteorhodopsin is a light-driven proton pump with variable vectoriality.

    Thomas Friedrich;Sven Geibel;Rolf Kalmbach;Igor Chizhov

  • Biochemical applications of surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy.

    Kenichi Ataka;Joachim Heberle

  • Photosynthetic hydrogen production by a hybrid complex of photosystem I and [NiFe]-hydrogenase.

    Henning Krassen;Alexander Schwarze;Baerbel Friedrich;Kenichi Ataka;Kenichi Ataka

  • Protons @ interfaces: implications for biological energy conversion.

    Armen Y. Mulkidjanian;Joachim Heberle;Dmitry A. Cherepanov

  • In situ determination of transient pKa changes of internal amino acids of bacteriorhodopsin by using time-resolved attenuated total reflection Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy.

    Christian Zscherp;Ramona Schlesinger;Jörg Tittor;Dieter Oesterhelt

  • Functional vibrational spectroscopy of a cytochrome c monolayer: SEIDAS probes the interaction with different surface-modified electrodes.

    Kenichi Ataka;Joachim Heberle

  • Surface-bound optical probes monitor protein translocation and surface potential changes during the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle.

    Joachim Heberle;Norbert A. Dencher

  • Proton transfer reactions across bacteriorhodopsin and along the membrane.

    Joachim Heberle

  • Transient protonation changes in channelrhodopsin-2 and their relevance to channel gating

    Victor A. Lórenz-Fonfría;Tom Resler;Nils Krause;Melanie Nack

  • Surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy (SEIRAS) to probe monolayers of membrane proteins.

    Kenichi Ataka;Sven Timo Stripp;Joachim Heberle

  • High-Field High-Repetition-Rate Sources for the Coherent THz Control of Matter

    B. Green;S. Kovalev;V. Asgekar;G. Geloni

  • Tailoring the properties and the reactivity of the spinel cobalt oxide

    Naoufal Bahlawane;Patrick Herve Tchoua Ngamou;Vincent Vannier;Tilman Kottke

  • Three-dimensional view of ultrafast dynamics in photoexcited bacteriorhodopsin.

    Gabriela Nass Kovacs;Jacques-Philippe Colletier;Marie Luise Grünbein;Yang Yang

  • Femtosecond-to-millisecond structural changes in a light-driven sodium pump.

    Petr Skopintsev;David Ehrenberg;Tobias Weinert;Daniel James

  • Light-driven water splitting for (bio-)hydrogen production: photosystem 2 as the central part of a bioelectrochemical device.

    Adrian Badura;Berndt Esper;Kenichi Ataka;Christian Grunwald

  • Resolving voltage-dependent structural changes of a membrane photoreceptor by surface-enhanced IR difference spectroscopy.

    X. Jiang;E. Zaitseva;M. Schmidt;F. Siebert

Frequent Co-Authors

Jochen Reinstein
Jochen Reinstein Max Planck Society
Ilme Schlichting
Ilme Schlichting Max Planck Society
Ernst Bamberg
Ernst Bamberg Max Planck Society
Norbert A. Dencher
Norbert A. Dencher Technical University of Darmstadt
Dieter Oesterhelt
Dieter Oesterhelt Max Planck Society
Martin Engelhard
Martin Engelhard Max Planck Society
Gebhard F. X. Schertler
Gebhard F. X. Schertler Paul Scherrer Institute
Ernst-Walter Knapp
Ernst-Walter Knapp Freie Universität Berlin
Thomas Happe
Thomas Happe Ruhr University Bochum
Peter Hegemann
Peter Hegemann Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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