Prof. Dr. Andrew Plested

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6062-0832

Andrew Plested studied Physics at Imperial College and then completed a PhD on anaesthetic mechanisms with Nick Franks and Bill Lieb. In 2003, he moved to UCL and did a postdoc studying single ion channels with David Colquhoun and Lucia Sivilotti. After a three year stint at NIH with Mark Mayer working on glutamate receptor structure function, he started a Junior Group at the Leibniz-institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) in Berlin Buch. He was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2015 to investigate glutamate receptor biophysics, and in 2017 he took up a DFG Heisenberg Professorship at the HU-Berlin. Since 2023 his lab is in found in Berlin Mitte at the Campus Nord following his adoption of the tenured full professorship in Cellular Biophysics.

Organisational Affiliations

Cellular Biophysics

Projects

02/2021 - 03/2024	RG 2518/1: Functional Dynamics of Ion Channels and Transporters – DynIon – Ion Permeation in Potassium Selective and Non-selective Cation Channels (SP 03)
10/2020 - 03/2024	RG 2518/1: Combining Experiment, Simulation and Machine Learning to Elucidate the Activation of Glutamate Receptor Complexes (SP 08)
10/2020 - 09/2022	Heisenberg Professorship: Andrew Plested
01/2019 - 12/2025	EXC 2049: Comprehensive Approaches to Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders “NeuroCure”