Curriculum Vitae

Advanced Professional Positions

• since 2021 Group Leader (Liebig Fellow) at the Department of Pharmacy, LMU Munich

Professional Experience and Postdoctoral Training

• 2019 – 2021 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pharmacy, LMU Munich (Mentor: Ivan Huc)
• 2918 – 2019 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute
  (Mentor: Benjamin Cravatt), La Jolla, CA, USA

Academic Education

• 2014 - 2018 Dr. rer. nat., LMU Munich, (Mentor: Dirk Trauner)

Honours, Awards, Scholarships and Other Qualifications

• since 2021 Liebig Fellowship of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
• 2018 – 2021 Outgoing LMU Research Fellowship (Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND
  Program)
• 2015 – 2018 Doctoral Scholarship of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
• 2011 – 2013 Scholarship of the Hans-Rudolf-Stiftung
• 2010 – 2011 Scholarship of the JCEMolChem Exchange Program
• 2007 – 2013 Undergraduate scholarship of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
  Freiburg

Publications

• Frank JA, Antonini M-J, Chiang P-H, Canales A, Konrad DB, Garwood I, Rajic G, Koehler F, Fink Y, Anikeeva P: In vivo photopharmacology enabled by multifunctional fibers. ACS Chem Neurosci 11:3802–3813, 2020.
• Vinogradova EV, Zhang X, Remillard D, Lazar DC, Suciu RM, Wang Y, Bianco G, Yamashita Y, Crowley VM, Schafroth MA, Yokoyama M, Konrad DB, Lum KM, Simon GM, Kemper EK, Lazear MR, Yin S, Blewett MM, Dix MM, Nguyen N, Shokhirev MN, Chin E, Lairson L, Melillo B, Schreiber SL, Forli S, Teijaro JR, Cravatt BF: An activity-guided map of electrophile-cysteine interactions in primary human immune cells. Cell 182:1009–1026, 2020.
• Konrad DB#, Savasci G, Allmendinger L, Trauner D, Ochsenfeld C#, Ali AM#: Computational Design and Synthesis of a Deeply Red-Shifted and Bistable Azobenzene. J Am Chem Soc 142:6538-6547, 2020.
  #co-corresponding authors
• Konrad DB, Kicin B, Trauner D: Concise Asymmetric Synthesis of Kweichowenol A. Synlett 30:383–386, 2019.
• Urban P, Pritzl SD, Konrad DB, Frank JA, Pernpeintner C, Roeske CR, Trauner D, Lohmüller D: Light-Controlled Lipid Interaction and Membrane Organization in Photolipid Bilayer Membranes. Langmuir 34:13368–13374, 2018.
• Leinders-Zufall T, Storch U, Bleymehl K, Mederos y Schnitzler M, Frank JA, Konrad DB, Trauner D, Gudermann T, Zufall F: PhoDAGs Enable Optical Control of Diacylglycerol-Sensitive Transient Receptor Potential Channels. Cell Chem Biol 25:215-223, 2018.
• Levitz J, Broichhagen J, Leippe P, Konrad D, Trauner D, Isacoff EY: Dual optical control and mechanistic insights into photoswitchable group II and III metabotropic glutamate receptors. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 114: 3546–3554, 2017.
• Ketels M, Konrad DB, Karaghiosoff K, Trauner D, Knochel P: Selective Lithiation, Magnesiation and Zincation of Unsymmetrical Azobenzenes Using Continuous Flow. Org Lett 19:1666–1669, 2017.
• Konrad DB, Frank JA, Trauner D: Synthesis of Redshifted Azobenzene Photoswitches via Late-Stage Functionalization. Chem Eur J 22:4364–4368, 2016.