Joost Schymkowitz

Joost Schymkowitz is a Belgian molecular biologist and researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium). Together with Frederic Rousseau he is group leader at the VIB Switch Laboratory, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

His research interest is on essential cellular processes where functional regulation is governed by protein conformational switches that have to be actively controlled to ensure cell viability [A systems biology perspective on protein structural dynamics and signal transduction, Rousseau F, Schymkowitz J, Curr Opin Struct Biol 23-30, 2005]

He obtained a PhD at the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, United Kingdom) in 2001. He did a Postdoc at the EMBL in Heidelberg Germany from 2001 until 2003. Joost Schymkowitz is a VIB Group leader since 2003.

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* [http://www.vib.be/Research/EN/Research+Departments/Switch+Laboratory/ Switch Laboratory] (VIB)
* [http://structures.vub.ac.be/fre.php Virtual Department for Structural Biology] (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)