Professional Preparation:

Professional Appointments

2005-present Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology. Biophysics, UMN
2000-2005 Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Biophysics, UMN
1998-2000 Postdoc (Habilitation Fellowship), Dept. Chem. Eng., Caltech (with Frances Arnold)
1995-1998 Head Molecular Biotechnology Group, Technical Biochemistry, U Stuttgart
1992-1994 Ph.D. Research Assistant, National Research Center for Biotechnology (GBF), Braunschweig, Germany

Selected Publications

K.T. Watts, B.N. Mijts, P.C. Lee, A. J. Manning and C. Schmidt-Dannert (2006) Discovery of a substrateselectivity switch in tyrosine ammonia lyase: a new member of the aromatic amino acid lyase family. Chem. Biol. 13:1317-1326 (cover)

K.T. Watts, P.C. Lee and C. Schmidt-Dannert (2006) Biosynthesis of plant specific stilbene polyketides in metabolically engineered E. coli. BMC Biotechnol. 6:22

B. Mijts, P.C. Lee and C. Schmidt-Dannert (2005) Identification of a carotenoid oxygenase synthesizing novel acyclic carotenoids: combinatorial biosynthesis and directed evolution. Chem. Biol. 12:1-8

K. Watts, P.C. Lee, C. Schmidt-Dannert (2004) Exploring recombinant flavonoid biosynthesis in metabolically engineered Escherichia coli. ChemBioChem. 5:500-507.

P.C. Lee, A.Z.R. Momen, B. Mijts, C. Schmidt-Dannert (2003) Biosynthesis of structurally novel carotenoids in Escherichia coli. Chem. Biol. 10:452-463.

P.C. Lee, C. Salomon, B. Mijts and C. Schmidt-Dannert (2008) Biosynthesis of ubiquinones with conjugated prenyl side chains. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 74:6908-17

S. Agger, F. Lopez-Gallego, T.R. Hoye and C. Schmidt-Dannert (2008) Identification of Sesquiterpene Synthases from Nostoc punctiforme PCC 73102 and Nostoc sp PCC 7120. J. Bacteriol. 190(18):6084-96.

E.T. Johnson and C. Schmidt-Dannert (2008) Characterization of three homologs of the large subunit of the magnesium chelatase from Chlorobium tepidum and interaction with the magnesium protoporphyrin IX methyltransferase. J. Biol. Chem. 283:27776-84

E. Marasco and C. Schmidt-Dannert (2008) Identification of bacterial carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase homologs that cleave the interphenyl α,β double bond of stilbene derivatives via a monooxygenase reaction. ChemBiochem, 9:1450-1461

E. Holtzapple and C. Schmidt-Dannert (2007) Biosynthesis of Isoprenoid Wax Ester in Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus DSM 8798: Identification and Characterization of Isoprenoid Coenzyme A Synthetase and Wax Ester Synthases. J. Bacteriol. 189:3804-12.