Günther Woehlke Author

Günther Woehlke studied biology and microbiology. After his studies in Bonn, Marburg and Munich, and postdoctoral studies at the UCSF, he has worked at the Institute for Cell Biology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, and the Department of Biophysics at the Technische Universität München. In his research, G. Woehlke has focussed on biological machines. Initially interested in the conversion of chemical fuel into membrane potentials, he has turned into research on mechano-chemical energy conversion, specifically on microtubule-associated mechano-enzymes. He has used various biophysical and kinetic methods to understand structure-function relationships.
Moreover, he has been interested in biomedical implications of mechano-enzymes. Kinesins and enzymes controlling the dynamics of microtubules have been found to cause neurodegenerative disorders in patients with hereditary genetic alterations. G. Woehlke has studied the molecular basis of the pathogenesis. Apart from primary scientific publications, he has contributed chapters on the cytoskeleton and the extracellular matrix for a medical textbook, and on biophysics for high school educators. His teaching activities are ranging from molecular cell biology, physical chemistry and physics, to biomedical topics.