Marta Campos Alonso

Name	Marta Campos Alonso
Education/Training	Bachelor in Biotechnology and Master in Translational Medical Research
Start of PhD Thesis and Group	02/2021, PD. Dr. Klaus-Peter Knobeloch
Subject of Thesis	USP18 as a key regulator for microglia activation
Research Interests	Molecular biology, structural biology, biochemistry, neuroimmunology, pathology, ubiquitin system
Methods and Techniques	Cell culture (mammalian, bacterial and insect cells), cloning, heterologous protein expression (bacterial and insect cells), protein purification (size-exclusion chromatography, affinity chromatography, ion-exchange chromatography), mutagenesis, electrophoresis, immunoblotting, immunoprecipitation, protein-protein interaction (nanoBRET), PCR, qPCR.
Publications	Shin D, Bhattacharya A, Chen Y, Campos Alonso M, Mehdipour AR, van der Heden van Noort GJ, Ovaa H, Hummer G, Dikic I. Novel Class of OTU deubiquitinases regulate substrate ubiquitination upon Legionella infection. eLife. 2020. doi:10.1101/2020.04.25.060954 Campos Alonso M. Changes in chlorophyll fluorescence parameters during desiccation and osmotic stress of Hassallia Antarctica culture. Czech Polar Reports. 2018; 8(2):198-207. doi:10.5817/CPR2018-2-16 Herzog AM, Göbel K, Marongiu L, Ruetalo N, Alonso MC, Leischner C, Busch C, Burkard M, Lauer UM, Geurink PP, Knobeloch KP, Schindler M, Fritz G, Venturelli S. Compounds derived from Humulus lupulus inhibit SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease and virus replication. Phytomedicine. 2024 Jan;123:155176. doi: 10.1016/j.phymed.2023.155176. Epub 2023 Oct 30. Campos Alonso M, Knobeloch KP. In the moonlight: non-catalytic functions of ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like proteases. Front Mol Biosci. 2024 Feb 22;11:1349509. doi: 10.3389/fmolb.2024.1349509. PMID: 38455765
Contact	marta.campos.alonso[at]uniklinik-freiburg.de