Saskia Barz

Name	Saskia Barz
Education/Training	Master of Science, Biochemistry
Start of PhD Thesis and Group	10/2020, Prof. Claudine Kraft
Subject of Thesis	The role of Atg4 protease in autophagy
Research Interests	Molecular mechanisms of autophagy, function of Atg4 protease, Atg8 and Ykt6 in early and late steps of autophagy
Methods and Techniques	Biochemical Assays, Reconstitution, Fluorescence Microscopy
Publications	Barz S, Kriegenburg F, Henning A, et al. Atg1 kinase regulates autophagosome-vacuole fusion by controlling SNARE bundling. EMBO Rep. 2020;21(12):e51869. doi:10.15252/embr.202051869 Barz S, Kriegenburg F, Sánchez-Martín P, Kraft C. Small but mighty: Atg8s and Rabs in membrane dynamics during autophagy. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Res. 2021;1868(9):119064. doi:10.1016/j.bbamcr.2021.119064 Barz S, Hofmann K, Reggiori F, Kraft C. Beyond the C-terminal glycine of ATG8 proteins – The story of some neglected amino acids. Journal of Molecular Biology (2024), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2024.168588
Contact	saskia.barz[at]biochemie.uni-freiburg.de