Hertha Sponer Distinguished Professor of Physics
Appointments and Affiliations
- Hertha Sponer Distinguished Professor of Physics
- Professor of Physics
- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Professor of Biology
Contact Information
- Office Location: 2316 French Family Science Center, Duke Box 90305, 124 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708
- Office Phone: (919) 660-2708
- Email Address: christoph.schmidt@duke.edu
- Websites:
Education
- D.R. Technical University of Munich (Germany), 1988
Courses Taught
- BIOLOGY 425: Biophysics II
- BIOLOGY 791T: Tutorial
- PHYSICS 174: Introduction to Frontiers of Biophysics
- PHYSICS 415: Biophysics II
- PHYSICS 493: Research Independent Study
- PHYSICS 995: Graduate Training Internship
In the News
Representative Publications
- Jayachandran, C., A. Ghosh, M. Prabhune, J. Bath, A. J. Turberfield, L. Hauke, J. Enderlein, F. Rehfeldt, and C. F. Schmidt. “DNA-Based Optical Sensors for Forces in Cytoskeletal Networks.” Acs Applied Nano Materials, January 1, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.3c01783.
- Ranaivoson, Fanomezana Moutse, Vincent Crozet, Matthieu P. M. H. Benoît, Amna Abdalla Mohammed Khalid, Carlos Kikuti, Helena Sirkia, Ahmed El Marjou, et al. “Nucleotide-free structures of Kif20A illuminate the atypical allostery in this mitotic kinesin-6.” Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, November 10, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.11.10.515925.
- Haertter, Daniel, Xiaolei Wang, Stephanie M. Fogerson, Nitya Ramkumar, Janice M. Crawford, Kenneth D. Poss, Stefano Di Talia, Daniel P. Kiehart, and Christoph F. Schmidt. “DeepProjection: specific and robust projection of curved 2D tissue sheets from 3D microscopy using deep learning.” Development 149, no. 21 (November 1, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.200621.
- Haertter, Daniel, Lara Hauke, Christoph F. Schmidt, and Wolfram H. Zimmermann. “Real-Time Super-Resolution Analysis of Sarcomere Motion Reveals Context-Dependent Stochastic Heterogeneity in Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes.” In Circulation, Vol. 146, 2022.
- Jayachandran, Christina, Arindam Ghosh, Meenakshi Prabhune, Jonathan Bath, Andrew J. Turberfield, Lara Hauke, Jörg Enderlein, Florian Rehfeldt, and Christoph F. Schmidt. “A DNA-based optical force sensor for live-cell applications.” Biorxiv, December 24, 2021.