Staff Profile

2018 - 2019 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Durham University, UK

2013 - 2016 HFSP Long-Term Fellow, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

2012 - 2013 Dean of Faculty Fellow, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

2010 - 2011 Postdoctoral Researcher, Max-Planck Institute for Molucular Plant Physiology, Germany

2010 PhD, Max-Planck Institute for Molucular Plant Physiology and Potsdam University, Germany

2006 Diploma, University of Münster, Germany

Publications

• Koutsogiannis Z, Mina JG, Albus CA, Kol MA, Holthuis JCM, Pohl E, Denny PW. Toxoplasma ceramide synthases: Gene duplication, functional divergence, and roles in parasite fitness. FASEB J. 2023 Nov;37(11):e23229.
• Albus CA, Berlinguer-Palmini R, Chrzanowska-Lightowlers ZM, Lightowlers RN. Four-Color STED Super-Resolution RNA Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization and Immunocytochemistry to Visualize Mitochondrial mRNAs in Context with Mitochondrial Ribosomes. Methods Mol Biol. 2023;2661:303-316.
• Song DA, Alber S, Doron-Mandel E, Schmid V, Albus CA, Leitner O, Hamawi H, Oses-Prieto JA, Dezorella N, Burlingame AL, Fainzilber M, Rishal I. A New Monoclonal Antibody Enables BAR Analysis of Subcellular Importin β1 Interactomes. Mol Cell Proteomics. 2022 Nov;21(11):100418.
• Albus CA, Berlinguer-Palmini R, Hewison C, McFarlane F, Savu EA, Lightowlers RN, Chrzanowska-Lightowlers ZM, Zorkau M. Mitochondrial Translation Occurs Preferentially in the Peri-Nuclear Mitochondrial Network of Cultured Human Cells. Biology (Basel). 2021 Oct 15;10(10):1050.
• Zorkau M, Albus CA, Berlinguer-Palmini R, Chrzanowska-Lightowlers ZMA, Lightowlers RN. High-resolution imaging reveals compartmentalization of mitochondrial protein synthesis in cultured human cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Feb 9;118(6):e2008778118.
• Albus CA, Rishal I, Fainzilber M. Cell length sensing for neuronal growth control. Trends Cell Biol. 2013 Jul;23(7):305-10
• Albus CA, Salinas A, Czarnecki O, Kahlau S, Rothbart M, Thiele W, Lein W, Bock R, Grimm B, Schöttler MA. LCAA, a novel factor required for magnesium protoporphyrin monomethylester cyclase accumulation and feedback control of aminolevulinic acid biosynthesis in tobacco. Plant Physiol. 2012 Dec;160(4):1923-39.
• Krech K, Ruf S, Masduki FF, Thiele W, Bednarczyk D, Albus CA, Tiller N, Hasse C, Schöttler MA, Bock R. The plastid genome-encoded Ycf4 protein functions as a nonessential assembly factor for photosystem I in higher plants. Plant Physiol. 2012 Jun;159(2):579-91
• Schöttler MA, Albus CA, Bock R. J Plant Physiol. Photosystem I: its biogenesis and function in higher plants. J Plant Physiol. 2011 Aug 15;168(12):1452-61
• Albus CA, Ruf S, Schöttler MA, Lein W, Kehr J, Bock R. Y3IP1, a nucleus-encoded thylakoid protein, cooperates with the plastid-encoded Ycf3 protein in photosystem I assembly of tobacco and Arabidopsis. Plant Cell. 2010 Aug;22(8):2838-55

MMB8034 - Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine

• Articles

  • Albus C, Berlinguer-Palmini R, Hewison C, Fiona McFarlane F, Savu E-A, Lightowlers RN, Chrzanowska-Lightowlers ZM, Zorkau M. Mitochondrial Translation Occurs preferentially in the Peri-Nuclear Mitochondrial Network of Cultured Human Cells. Biology 2021, 10(10), 1050.
  • Zorkau M, Albus CA, Berlinguer-Palmini R, Chrzanowska-Lightowlers ZMA, RN Lightowlers. High-resolution imaging reveals compartmentalisation of mitochondrial protein synthesis in cultured human cells. PNAS 2021, 118(6), e2008778118.
  • Albus CA, Rishal I, Fainzilber M. Cell length sensing for neuronal growth control. Trends Cell Biol 2013, 23(7), 305-310.
  • Krech K, Ruf S, Masduki FF, Thiele W, Bednarczyk D, Albus CA, Tiller N, Hasse C, Schöttler MA, Bock R. The plastid genome-encoded Ycf4 protein functions as a nonessential assembly factor for photosystem I in higher plants. Plant Physiol 2012, 159(02), 579–591.