Dr. Bilal Qureshi
Dr. Bilal Qureshi
Lecturer at the Department of Materials
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Membership
Since | Membership |
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RMS Royal Microscopy Society |
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Responsibilities
- Cryo electron microscopy (CryoEM)
- Image processing: Single particle analysis (SPA), on-the-fly processing workstations, CryoSPARC instances with HPC team
- Sample preparation and data acquisition for single particle and cryo electron tomography (CryoET) and 3D Electron Crystallagraphy (3D ED)
- Enhanced support and method development for challenging scientific questions
Teaching
- Advanced Course: Cryogenic Electron Microscopy (CryoEM) - Lead
- Transmission Electron Microscopy 1 (TEM1) - Contribution
- EXCITE Zurich Summer School on Biomedical Imaging - Contribution
- CCMX - ScopeM Course: Advanced Characterization of Materials at Micro, Nano and Atomic Scale - Contribution
Career
2020 – present CryoEM expert & Lecturer, ScopeM, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2019 – 2020 Senior staff scientist, Strubi, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2017 – 2019 Postdoctoral researcher, Strube, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
2014 – 2017 Research Associate, IMPB, Charité-University of Medicine Berlin, Germany
2014 Doctorate in Biophysics, Charité-University of Medicine & Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
2008 Diplom (M.S.) in Biophysics, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Key awards and qualifications
- Excellence Award 2020, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
- Advanced Titan Krios training (4 weeks) by Thermo Fisher Scientific at University of Oxford, United Kingdom
- Several fellowships in Germany incl. SFB 449, SFB 740, SFB 958, IMPRS/ZIBI
Selected publications
Frey L*, Ghosh D*, Qureshi BM*, Rhyner D, Guerrero-Ferreira R, Pokharna A, Kwiatkowski W, Serdiuk T, Picotti P, Riek R, Greenwald J. On the pH-dependence of alpha-synuclein amyloid polymorphism and the role of secondary nucleation in seed-based amyloid propagation. 2024 eLife doi: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.93562.4
Huntington B, Zhao L, Bron P, Shahul Hameed UF**, Arold ST**, Qureshi BM**. Thicker Ice Improves the Integrity and Angular Distribution of CDC48A Hexamers on Cryo-EM Grids. Front Mol Biosci. 2022 Jun 17;9:890390. doi: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.890390. PMID: 35782862; PMCID: PMC9247313.
Qureshi BM*, Behrmann E*, Schöneberg J, Loerke J, Bürger J, Mielke T, Giesebrecht J, Noé F, Lamb TD, Hofmann KP, Spahn CMT, Heck M. It takes two transducins to activate the cGMP-phosphodiesterase 6 in retinal rods. Open Biol. 2018 Aug;8(8):180075. doi: 10.1098/rsob.180075. PMID: 30068566; PMCID: PMC6119865.
Qureshi BM*, Schmidt A*, Behrmann E, Bürger J, Mielke T, Spahn CMT, Heck M, Scheerer P. Mechanistic insights into the role of prenyl-binding protein PrBP/δ in membrane dissociation of phosphodiesterase 6. Nat Commun. 2018 Jan 8;9(1):90. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-02569-y. PMID: 29311697; PMCID: PMC5758567.
Qureshi BM*, Hofmann NE*, Arroyo-Olarte RD, Nickl B, Hoehne W, Jungblut PR, Lucius R, Scheerer P, Gupta N. Dynein light chain 8a of Toxoplasma gondii, a unique conoid-localized β-strand-swapped homodimer, is required for an efficient parasite growth. FASEB J. 2013 Mar;27(3):1034-47. doi: 10.1096/fj.11-180992. Epub 2012 Dec 11. PMID: 23233536.
*equally contributed
** Corresponding Author
Course Catalogue
Spring Semester 2025
Number | Unit |
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327-2126-00L | Microscopy Training TEM I - Introduction to TEM |
327-2144-00L | Microscopy Training Cryogenic Electron Microscopy |