Thomas Schalch
Professor Of Molecular And Structural Biology at University of Leicester
Leicester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolThomas Schalch is a Professor of Molecular and Structural Biology with 14 years of focused experience unraveling the mechanisms and structures of macromolecular complexes that establish heterochromatin. Trained at ETH Zürich and seasoned through key roles at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the University of Geneva, he combines X-ray crystallography, EM, and biochemical/biophysical approaches to deliver high-resolution mechanistic insights—having solved structures including the S. pombe RITS core and the Chp1 chromodomain. His work bridges hands-on protein expression and recombinant DNA with computational skills in web and database programming, enabling reproducible data workflows and bespoke analysis tools. Based in Leicester, he leads interdisciplinary teams to translate structural detail into epigenetic understanding, often revealing unexpected interfaces that explain chromatin behavior.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Molecular Biology, PhD, Molecular Biology at ETH Zürich
German, French, English
Github Skills (5)
genome-assembly8
bioinformatics7
science5
python3
signal3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tschalch/pyTray
Oct 2011 - Mar 2014
Contributions:17 commits in 2 years 4 months
tschalch/labdb
Oct 2011 - Oct 2021
Contributions:73 commits, 25 pushes, 3 tags in 10 years 1 month
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