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Assistant Professor
Office: 113 Life Sciences I Building (MC 0910)
Lab: 102 Life Sciences I
E-mail: bscharf@vt.edu
Telephone: (540) 231-0757 (office) 231-0772 (lab)

Area: Microbiology: Motility and chemotaxis of Sinorhizobium meliloti

Education:

• Ph. D. in Biology (Biochemistry of the blue light receptor from archaebacteria and of the small blue copper protein, halocyanin, from Natronobacterium pharaonis), Max-Planck-Institut fur Ernährungs Physiologie, Dortmund, Germany, 1992.
• Visiting Scientist, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. 2007-2008.
• Assistant Research Scientist, Dept. of Genetics, University of Regensburg, Germany, 2000-2007.
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Genetics, University of Regensburg, Germany, 1998-2000.
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Biolabs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1994-1998.
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Physiology, Dortumund, Germany. 1992-1993.

 

Selected Publications:

H. Riepl, Maurer T., Kalbitzer H.R., Meier V.M., Schmitt R., Scharf B. (2008) Interaction of CheY2 and CheY2-P with the cognate CheA kinase in the chemosensory-signalling chain of Sinorhizobium meliloti. Molecular Microbiology 69, 1373-1384.

V. M. Meier, Muschler, P., and B. E. Scharf (2007) Functional analysis of nine putative chemoreceptor proteins in Sinorhizobium meliloti. Journal of Bacteriology 189, 1816-1826.

C. Rotter, Mühlbauer, S., Schmitt, R., and B. Scharf (2006) Rem, a new transcriptional regulator of the flagellar regulon in Sinorhizobium meliloti. Journal of Bacteriology 188, 6932-6942.

E. Eggenhofer, Haslbeck M., Scharf B. (2004) The novel protein MotE serves as chaperone for the periplasmic motor protein MotC in Sinorhizobium meliloti. Molecular Microbiology 52, 701-712.

B. Scharf (2002) Real-time imaging of fluorescent flagellar filaments of Rhizobium lupini H13-3: Flagellar rotation and pH-induced polymorphic transitions. Journal of Bacteriology 184, 5979-5986.