Prof. Dr. Robert Bruce Russell

Prof. Dr. Robert Bruce Russell

Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
CellNetworks, Bioquant
Im Neuenheimer Feld 267
69118 Heidelberg
Phone: +49 (6221) 54 51362
Fax: +49 (6221) 54 5 486
E-mail: robert.russell@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de


Research Area

Protein Bioinformatics


Position and Status

Professor (W3)


Scholarships and awards

2005 -             Nominator, Nobel Prizes in Chemistry
1990 - 1993    Commonwealth Scholarship (UK)
1990               NSERC 1967 Award (Canada)



Academic Education

10/1990 - 09/1993   Doctoral Studies, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK. (Supervisor: Geoff Barton)
09/1986 - 04/1990   Bachelor studies, Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

 

University Degrees

1994   D.Phil, University of Oxford, UK
1990   B.Sc (hons), Queen’s University, Canada

 

Employment

10/2009 -                 W3 Professor of Protein Evolution, University of Heidelberg, Germany
02/2001 - 09/2009   Group Leader, Structural Bioinformatics, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
03/1997 - 11/2000   Senior Investigator, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, Harlow, UK
08/1994 - 03/1997   Postdoctoral Fellowship, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, UK

Coordinating Functions and Editorial Work

2003 -   Associate Editor, Protein Sci.
2005 -   2014 Associate Editor, PLoS Comp Biol
2002 -   2011 Associate Editor, J. Struct. Biol
2002 -   2014 Associate Editor, FEBS Letters

  1. Betts, M.J., Lu, Q., Jiang, Y.Y., Drusko, A., Valtierra, I., Schlesner, M., Jaeger, N., Jones, D.T., Pfister, S., Lichter, P., Eils, R., Siebert, R., Bork, P., Apic, G., Gavin, A.C., and Russell, R.B. (2014) Mechismo: predicting the mechanistic impact of mutations and modifications on molecular interactions. Nucleic Acids Res. 43(2):e10.
  2. Richter J, Schlesner M, Hoffmann S, Kreuz M, Leich E, Burkhardt B, Rosolowski M, Ammerpohl O, Wagener R, Bernhart SH, Lenze D, Szczepanowski M, Paulsen M, Lipinski S, Russell RB, AdamKlages S, Apic G, Claviez A, Hasenclever D, Hovestadt V, Hornig N, Korbel JO, Kube D, Langenberger D, Lawerenz C, Lisfeld J, Meyer K, Picelli S, Pischimarov J, Radlwimmer B, Rausch T, Rohde M, Schilhabel M, Scholtysik R, Spang R, Trautmann H, Zenz T, Borkhardt A, Drexler HG, Möller P, MacLeod RA, Pott C, Schreiber S, Trümper L, Loeffler M, Stadler PF, Lichter P, Eils R, Küppers R, Hummel M, Klapper W, Rosenstiel P, Rosenwald A, Brors B, Siebert R (2012) ICGC MMML-Seq Project. Recurrent mutation of the ID3 gene in Burkitt lymphoma identified by integrated genome, exome and transcriptome sequencing. Nat Genet.44:1316-20.
  3. van Noort V, Seebacher J, Bader S, Mohammed S, Vonkova I, Betts MJ, Kühner S, Kumar R, Maier T, O'Flaherty M, Rybin V, Schmeisky A, Yus E, Stülke J, Serrano L, Russell RB, Heck AJ, Bork P, Gavin AC (2012) Cross-talk between phosphorylation and lysine acetylation in a genome-reduced bacterium. Mol Syst Biol. 8:571.
  4. Kalinina OV, Wichmann O, Apic G, Russell RB (2011) Combinations of protein-chemical complex structures reveal new targets for established drugs. PLoS Comput Biol. 7(5):e1002043.
  5. Kühner S, van Noort V, Betts MJ, Leo-Macias A, Batisse C, Rode M, Yamada T, Maier T, Bader S, Beltran-Alvarez P, Castaño-Diez D, Chen WH, Devos D, Güell M, Norambuena T, Racke I, Rybin V, Schmidt A, Yus E, Aebersold R, Herrmann R, Böttcher B, Frangakis AS, Russell RB, Serrano L, Bork P, Gavin AC (2009) Proteome organization in a genome-reduced bacterium. Science 326:1235-40.
  6. Petsalaki E, Stark A, García-Urdiales E, Russell RB (2009) Accurate prediction of peptide binding sites on protein surfaces. PLoS Comput Biol .5(3):e1000335.
  7. Gavin AC, Aloy P, Grandi P, Krause R, Boesche M, Marzioch M, Rau C, Jensen LJ, Bastuck S, Dümpelfeld B, Edelmann A, Heurtier MA, Hoffman V, Hoefert C, Klein K, Hudak M, Michon AM, Schelder M, Schirle M, Remor M, Rudi T, Hooper S, Bauer A, Bouwmeester T, Casari G, Drewes G, Neubauer G, Rick JM, Kuster B, Bork P, Russell RB, Superti-Furga G. (2006) Proteome survey reveals modularity of the yeast cell machinery. Nature 440:631-6.
  8. Neduva V, Linding R, Su-Angrand I, Stark A, de Masi F, Gibson TJ, Lewis J, Serrano L, Russell RB (2005) Systematic discovery of new recognition peptides mediating protein interaction networks. PLoS Biol. 3(12):e405.
  9. Aloy P, Russell RB.(2004) Ten thousand interactions for the molecular biologist. Nat Biotechnol. 22:1317-21.
  10. Aloy P, Böttcher B, Ceulemans H, Leutwein C, Mellwig C, Fischer S, Gavin AC, Bork P, SupertiFurga G, Serrano L, Russell RB (2004) Structure-based assembly of protein complexes in yeast. Science 303(5666):2026-9.