Chris Meisinger
Principal Investigator

Chris Meisinger is a professor of Biochemistry at the Medical Faculty of the University of Freiburg. He studied Chemistry in Freiburg and received his PhD from the Institute of Anatomy in 1997. He then joined Nikolaus Pfanner's group at the Institute of Biochemistry, first as a postdoctoral researcher and later as a group leader. During this time, he identified the sorting and assembly machinery known as SAM and described the first global proteome of mitochondria from yeast. After a period at the University of Bern from 2010 to 2012, Chris returned to Freiburg as a full professor. With his team, he advanced our knowledge of the mitochondrial (sub)proteomes, discovered the first kinases that target and regulate the main mitochondrial import translocase, TOM, and contributed to our understanding of how cells cope with mitochondrial stress. Since 2019, Chris has serves as the spokesperson for the Collaborative Research Centre 1381 on "Dynamic Protein Machineries."