Dr. rer. nat. Kira Schamoni-Kast

Function

research scientist in the group of Charlotte Uetrecht

At UzL since

2024

Other affiliations

CSSB Centre for Structural Systems Biology, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY & Leibniz Institute of Virology (LIV) & University of Lübeck, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany.

Funding

ARIADNE VIBE
Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program under grant agreement No. 964553

DFG-funded Graduate School RTG2771 “Humans and Microbes: Reorganisation of Cell Compartments and Molecular”

ORCID ID

0000-0002-1323-9163

CSSB Centre for Structural Systems Biology
c/o Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
Notkestraße 85, Building 15
22607 Hamburg
Gebäude CSSB, Raum O2.139

Email:	kira.schamonikast(at)uni-luebeck.de
Phone:	+49 40 8998 6372

Research and work

Research focus

structural virology with an emphasis on coronavirus proteins
characterization of SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid proteoforms directly from infected cells
advancing native mass spectrometry (MS) toward cellular, physiologically relevant systems
deriving mechanistic biological models from complex MS dataset

Methods & approaches

native and top-down MS
Hydrogen–deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX-MS)
protein biochemistry

Expertise

native and top-down MS
HDX-MS
coronavirus virology
enzyme kinetics
interpretation of complex MS data
supervision of Bachelor’s and Master’s students as well as technical assistants; co-supervision of doctoral candidates
teaching experience in lectures, seminars, and workshops

Publications

Research portal of the University of Lübeck

CV

seit 2025	postdoc	University of Lübeck, Institute of Chemistry and Metabolomics, Germany
2020-2025	doctoral candidate	University of Hamburg, Leibniz Institute of Virology, Hamburg, University of Siegen & University of Lübeck, Institute of Chemistry and Metabolomics, Germany
2017-2020	Masterstudentin (Molecular Life Sciences)	University of Hamburg, Germany
2013-2015	Bachelorstudentin (Biologie)	University of Hamburg & Leibniz Institute of Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Akademische Auszeichnungen

2022	Nico Nibbering Student Travel Award, Maastricht, The Netherlands
2021	Mobility Grant, Leibniz Institute of Virology, Hamburg, Germany