Tel.: 301-496-7902
Fax: 301-496-0825
E-mail: kontaxis@nih.gov
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Structural Biology, Structure Determination with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Spectroscopy, NMR Techniques Developement
EDUCATION
Ph. D. in Chemistry
University Graz, Austria, with Prof. Heinz Sterk, 1993
Diploma in Chemistry (BS/MS)
University Graz, Austria, 1990
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Post-Doctoral Fellow
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA , since 1998
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Institute of Organic Chemistry, University Innsbruck, Austria, with
Prof. Bernhard Kraeutler and Dr. Robert Konrat, Aug. 1996 - Aug 1998
Research Fellow
MRI department, University Clinic Vienna, Austria, Oct. 1994 - July
1996
Visiting Scientist
Department of Chemistry University of Cambridge, UK, with Dr. James
Keeler, Sept. 1992 - July 1993
Teaching Assistent (part time)
Institute of Organic Chemistry, University Graz, Austria, June 1990
- June 1992
PUBLICATIONS
Publications from the Bax Group
Selected Previous Publications:
G.Kontaxis, R.Konrat, B.Kraeutler, R.Weiskirchen and K.Bister. Structure and Intramodular Dynamics of the N Terminal LIM Domain from Quail Cysteine and Glycine-revich Protein CRP2. Biochemistry 37, 7127 (1998)
Georg Kontaxis and James Keeler. The Accordion Approach to Taylored TOCSY, J.Magn.Reson.A. 115, 35 (1995)
Georg Kontaxis, Jonathan Stonehouse, Ernest D.Laue and James Keeler. On the Sensitivity of Experiments Using Gradient Pulses for Coherence Pathway Selection, J.Magn.Reson.A.111, 70 (1994)
J.Bardakji, G.Kontaxis, H.Sterk, On the Estimation of an Unexpected Large Chemical Shift Anisotropy, Spectrochim. Acta 50A, 735 (1994)
G.Kontaxis, G.Zieger, H.Sterk, D.Moskau. Relaxation of Phenylacetylene-d1 in a Liquid Crystal, J.Phys.Chem. 98, 420 (1994)
G.Kontaxis, H.Sterk. Deuterium Relaxation of Bromoform-d1 dissolved in a Nematic Liquid Crystal, J.Magn.Reson.A. 103, 253 (1993)
G.Kontaxis, H.Sterk, J.Kalcher. Quadrupolar Relaxation - an Approach to Rotational Diffusion, J.Chem.Phys. 95, 7854 (1991)
G.Kontaxis, N.Müller, H.Sterk. Cross Correlation between Dipolar
and Chemical Shift Anisotropy Interaction - Application to Anisotropic
Rotational Diffusion, J.Magn.Reson. 92, 332 (1991)