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Prof. Dr. Jürgen Fritz
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Fritz
Prof. Dr.
Professor of Biophysics
Physics & Earth Sciences

Campus Ring 1 28759 Bremen Germany

Tel: 
+49 421 200-3522
Fax: 
+49 421 200-3229
Email: 
jfritz [at] constructor.university
Homepage: 
http://jfritz.user.jacobs-university.de/
Office: 
Research III, Room 56
Research Interests: 
Current research interests include molecular biophysics, atomic force microscopy on biomolecules, force spectroscopy and nanomechanics, single molecule methods, label-free biosensing, surface functionalization, microfluidics and microcontact printing, nanotechnology.
University Education: 
1988 - 1991
University of Karlsruhe (Germany), Vordiplom
1991 - 1994
University of Heidelberg (Germany), Physikdiplom
1995 - 1998
University of Basel (Switzerland), Institute of Physics
PhD student at Novartis
Dissertation in experimental physics

 

Research and Teaching Positions: 
1998 - 2000
IBM Zurich Research Laboratory (Rüschlikon, Switzerland), Postdoc
2000 - 2003
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA), Media Laboratory, Postdoc and staff research scientist
Since May 2003
Assistant Professor of Biophysics at Jacobs University Bremen (former International University Bremen), Germany
Publications: 

Selection:

  • J. Fritz, A. G. Katopodis, F. Kolbinger, D. Anselmetti: Force-mediated kinetics of single P-selectin/ligand complexes observed by atomic force microscopy, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95 (1998) 12283-12288.
  • J. Fritz, M. K. Baller, H. P. Lang, H. Rothuizen, P. Vettiger, E. Meyer, H.-J. Güntherodt, Ch. Gerber, J. K. Gimzewski: Translating biomolecular recognition into nanomechanics, Science 288 (2000) 316-318.
  • J. Fritz, E. B. Cooper, S. Gaudet, P. K. Sorger, S. R. Manalis: Electronic detection of DNA by its intrinsic molecular charge, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99 (2002) 14142-14146
  • I. Pera and J. Fritz: Sensing lipid bilayer formation and expansion with a microfabricated cantilever array, Langmuir 23 (2007) 1543-1547.
  • J. Fritz: Cantilever Biosensors, Analyst 133 (2008) 855-863.
  • S. Maurer, J. Fritz, G. Muskhelishvili: A systematic in vitro study of nucleoprotein complexes formed by bacterial nucleoid-associated proteins revealing novel types of DNA organization, J. Mol. Biol. 387 (2009) 1261-1276.