Subproject A6

Curriculum vitae
	Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil., Dipl.-Biol. Peter Bayer
Date of birth:	May 19, 1965
Place of birth:
Work address:	Bioinformatics, Centre for Medical Biotechnology
	University of Duisburg-Essen
	Universitätsstr. 2-5,
	45117 Essen
	Tel.: 0049-183-4677, Fax.: 0049-183-4188
	email: peter.bayer@uni-due.de
Academic education and qualifications:
10/1986-08/1991	Study of Biology University of Regensburg
11/1990-08/1991	Diploma in Biophysics University of Regensburg, Prof. Lüdemann, (summa cum laude)
10/1991-07/1994	PhD student at the institute “Structure and Chemistry of Biopolymers” University of Bayreuth, Prof. Rösch
Professional appointments:
11/1991-11/1993	Research Grant ‘Fonds der chemischen Industrie Deutschlands’, Kekulé-Study-Grant
07.07.1994	Defence of Dissertation
08/1994	Award of the ‘Fonds der Chemischen Industrie Deutschlands’
08/1994-09/1995	Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for “Structure and Chemistry of Biopolymers” University of Bayreuth
03/1995-05/1995	Sabbatical ‘Institute for Biology and Biotechnology’, Crete, Greece, Prof. Kokkinides
10/1995-09/1997	Postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute Molecular Physiology in Dortmund, Prof. Goody
10/1997-09/1998	Sabbatical at the Medical Research Council, Department of Structural Biology, in Cambridge, England, Prof. Varani
10/1997-12/1997	Grant of the Max-Planck-Society
01/1997-09/1998	Marie-Curie-Research-Grant (TMR) of the European Union
10/1998	Head of a NMR Research group at the Max-Planck-Institute for Enzymology of Protein Folding, Halle, Prof. Fischer
05/05/2000	Habilitation “Defence”
05/2000	Journal Scanner’ for ‘Trends in Biochemical Sciences’ (TIBS)
31/05/2000	Habilitation, Privatdozent (Lecturer) for Biochemistry at the University Halle-Wittenberg
01/10/2000	Head of the research group ‘Molecular and Structural Biophysics’ at the MPI Dortmund
03/2000	Committee member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Magnetic  Resonance
06/2002-08/2002	Sabbatical at the National Institute of Medical Research, Mill Hill, London, Prof. Annalisa Pastore
03/2004	Call onto a chair for Biochemistry University Duisburg-Essen
10/2005	Prof. of Biochemistry University of Duisburg-Essen Centre of Medical Biotechnology
01/2005	Vice-Director of the Institute of Biology University of Duisburg-Essen
10/2006-10/2008	Dean of the faculty of Biology & Geography
Since 10/2008	Vice-Dean (Prodekan) of the faculty of Biology & Geography

Selected publications

Publications (10 most important publications of the last 5 years):

1. Bayer P, Kraft M, Ejchart A, Westendorp M, Frank R, and Rösch P. Structural studies of HIV-1 tat protein. J Mol Biol 1995;247:529-535.
2. Esser D, Bauer B, Wittinghofer W, Cool RH, and Bayer P. Structure determination of the Ras-binding domain of the Ral-specific guanine exchange factor Rlf. Biochemistry 1998;37:13453-13462.
3. Bayer P, Arndt A, Metzger S, Mahajan R, Melchior F, Jaenicke R, and Becker J. Structure Determination of the Small Ubiquitin-related Modifier SUMO-1. J Mol Biol 1998;280:275-286.
4. Bayer P, Varani L, and Varani G. Refinement of the Structure of Protein-RNA Complexes by Residual Dipolar Coupling Analysis. J Biomol NMR 1999;14:149-155.
5. Sekerina E, Rahfeld JU, Fanghänel J, Müller J, Fischer G, and Bayer P. NMR solution structure of hPar14 reveals similarity to the peptidyl prolyl cis/trans isomerase domain of the mitotic regulator hpin1 but indicates a different functionality of the protein. J Mol Biol 2000;301:1003-1017
6. Surmacz TA, Bayer E, Rahfeld JU, Fischer G, and Bayer P. The N-terminal domain of hPar14 is necessary for entry to the nucleus and high-affinity DNA-binding. J Mol Biol 2002;321:235-247.
7. Bayer E, Goettsch S, Mueller JW, Griewel B, Guiberman E, Mayr LM, and Bayer P. Structural analysis of the mitotic regulator hPin1 in solution: Insights into domain architecture and substrate binding. J Biol Chem 2003;278:26183-26193.
8. Hecker CM, Rabiller M, Haglund K, Bayer P, and Dikic I. Specification of SUMO1 and SUMO2 interacting motifs. J Biol Chem 2006;281:16117-27.
9. Harjes E, Harjes S, Wohlgemuth S, Mueller KH, Krieger E, Herrmann C, and Bayer P. GTP-Ras disrupts the intramolecular complex of C1 and RA domains of Nore1. Structure 2006;14:881-888.
10. Goettsch S, Badea RA, Schoelermann B, Wotzlaw C, Schulz L, Müller JW, Rabiller M, Bayer P, and Hartmann-Fatu C. Golgi targeting and dimerisation of human TPST1, an enzyme with two N-linked carbohydrates, is triggered by its N-terminal transmembrane domain. J Mol Biol 2006;361:436-449.