Dr. Corinna Kufner is a graduate from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Germany). Her research is focused on the ultrafast photophysics of biomolecules in early stages of evolution, including RNA / DNA building blocks and the photophysics of oligonucleotides.

Her experimental background involves a set of spectroscopic techniques including ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy, FTIR, UV/Vis, HPLC-MS, ESI and MALDI-TOF.

In the Sasselov Group, Corinna Kufner is in charge of the ultrafast pump-probe setups, leads the UV/Vis and FTIR experiments and is responsible for the management of the laboratories.

Publications:
 

"UV Transmission in Natural Waters on Prebiotic Earth"
Sukrit Ranjan, Corinna L. Kufner, Gabriella G. Lozano, Zoe R. Todd, Azra Haseki, Dimitar D. Sasselov
Astrobiology, Accepted (2021)

"Prebiotic photoredox synthesis from carbon dioxide and sulfite"
Ziwei Liu, Long-Fei Wu, Corinna L. Kufner, Dimitar D. Sasselov, Woodward W. Fischer & John D. Sutherland 
Nature Chemistry volume 13, pages 1126–1132 (2021)

"Ribose Alters the Photochemical Properties of the Nucleobase in Thionated Nucleosides"
Mikołaj J. Janicki, Corinna L. Kufner, Zoe R. Todd, Seohyun C. Kim, Derek K. O’Flaherty, Jack W. Szostak, Jiří Šponer, Robert W. Góra, Dimitar D. Sasselov, and Rafał Szabla
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. (2021)

"UV-Induced Charge-Transfer States in Short Guanosine-Containing DNA Oligonucleotides "
C. L. Kufner, W. Zinth, D. B. Bucher
ChemBioChem. 21 (2020)

"UV-Induced Charge Transfer States in DNA Promote Sequence Selective Self-Repair"
D. B. Bucher, C. L. Kufner, A. Schlueter, T. Carell, W. Zinth
J. Am. Chem. Soc.138 (2016) 186-190

"Ultra-widefield retinal Mhz-OCT imaging with up to 100 degrees viewing angle"
J. P. Kolb, T. Klein, C. L. Kufner, W. Wieser, A. S. Neubauer, R. Huber
Biomed. Opt. Express 6 (2015) 1534-1552

"Development of a refractometer"
C. L. Kufner
Young Researcher 22 (2007) 57-62