Babatunde Ekundayo
About
Babatunde Ekundayo from Nigeria joined the LBEM in July 2021 to set-up and manage the biochemistry & wetlab and conduct independent research. His curiosity drives him to understand how molecular machines in the cell work. To this end, he combines his expertise in Biochemistry with cryo-EM to determine high-resolution structures of macromolecules in action and unravel their functional mechanisms. Before joining LBEM, he has trained as a postdoc at Yale University, USA and the FMI, Basel. He obtained his PhD in molecular biology from the University of Geneva.
Current Project
Visualizing molecular machines in action by cryo-EM
Biography
| 07/21 – present | Senior Scientist & Wetlab manager, Laboratory of Biological Electron Micoscopy (LBEM), Institute of Physics, EPFL, Switzerland |
| 07/21 – 09/22 | NCCR Transcure Postdoctoral fellow, Laboratory of Biological Electron Microscopy (LBEM), Institute of Physics, EPFL, Switzerland |
| 01/20 – 05/21 | SNSF Postdoctoral fellow, Dept. of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, USA |
| 02/18 – 12/19 | Postdoctoral researcher, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), Basel, Switzerland |
| 02/13 – 08/17 | PhD in Molecular Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva, Switzerland |
Publications
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Structural basis of TRPM4 inhibition by ... Nature Communications (In press), (2024)
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Computational drug development for membrane protein targets Nature Biotechnology 42(2), 229-242 (2024)
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Structure of a membrane-bound menaquinol:organohalide oxidoreductase Nature Communications 14(7038), (2023)
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Activation mechanism of a short argonaute-TIR antiviral defense system Science Advances 9(29), eadh9002 (2023) |
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Structural insights into the regulation of Cas7-11 by TPR-CHAT Nature Struct. Mol. Biol. 30(2), 135-139 (2023) |
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