Prof. Aumeier awarded by the Biophysical Society Mobility and Cytoskeleton

Prof. Charlotte Aumeier, department of Biochemistry has been awarded the 2025 Biophysical Society Mobility and Cytoskeleton Early Career Award rewarding her excellence in this field.

This award is presented by the "Motility and Cytoskeleton" subgroup from the Biophysical Society. This subgroup aims to understand the mechanisms driving biological motility and contractility, focusing on molecular motors, cytoskeletal filaments, and their regulatory proteins. Key topics include energy conversion in cell movement, cytokinesis, and muscle contraction

Prof. Charlotte Aumeier is an Associate Professor within the Department of biochemistry at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She received her PhD at the University of Bonn, Germany, studying the cytoskeleton of diatoms. Charlotte joined the University of Grenoble Alpes (France) to work on microtubules.  In 2018, she started her individual research at the University of Geneva as Assistant Professor, where her group investigates the dynamics and regulatory mechanisms of microtubule networks through various methodologies. In 2024, she was appointed Associate Professor.

Prof. Aumeier`s team is particularly interested in how the dynamic properties of the cellular microtubule network regulate its organization. Her lab tries to answer: How is microtubule shaft dynamic regulated? Which proteins cause microtubule damage, and modulate repair at the shaft? How is the interplay between shat and tip dynamics leading to a functional microtubule network architecture? To what extent is phase separation a mechanism to control microtubule dynamics? To understand the interplay between microtubule-associated proteins and tubulin properties Prof. Aumeier`s team work in vitro and with cells. 

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