RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Lauren Nicol
Dr. Lauren Nicol

Research Assistant

Phone: +49 (0) 9421 187-431
Mail: lauren.nicol@tum.de

TUM Campus Straubing
Uferstraße 53
94315 Straubing

Uferstraße 53 Room: 02.3505.154

Vita
  • 2021 – Present: Postdoc, Technische Universität München, Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability, Germany
  • 2015-2021:  PhD “photoprotection in photosynthesis: from plant to protein”, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 2011-2014: Bachelor of Science with Honours First Class in Biochemistry and Plant Biotechnology, University of Otago, New Zealand

Publications:

2021

  • Nicol, L. & Croce, R. The PsbS protein and low pH are necessary and sufficient to induce quenching in the light-harvesting complex of plants LHCII. Rep. (2021).
  • Agostini, A., Nicol, L., Da Roit, N., Bortolus, M. Croce, R. Carbonera, D. Altering the exciton landscape by removal of specific chlorophylls in monomeric LHCII provides information on the sites of triplet formation and quenching by means of ODMR and EPR spectroscopies. BBA – Bioenergetics. (2021).

2019

  • Nicol, L., Nawrocki, W.J., Croce, R. Disentangling the sites of non-photochemical quenching in vascular plants. Nature plants (2019).

2018

  • Nicol, L. & Croce, R. Light harvesting in higher plants and green algae in Light harvesting in photosynthesis (CRC Press, 2018).

Contact

Professorship Microbial Biotechnology

Uferstraße 53
D-94315 Straubing

Head

Prof. Dr. Bastian Blombach

Phone: +49 (0) 9421 187-420
Mail: bastian.blombach@tum.de

Team Assistant

Nancy Stüpfert

Phone: +49 (0) 9421 187-425
Mail: nancy.stuepfert@tum.de