Johan Isaksson

• Born 1974 in Sweden
• Two children (twins, 5 years old) and a little sister scheduled for early March.
• Hobbies: Fishing, Sea kayaking, Hiking, Dreaming of the spare time we had to spend on hobbies before we got kids. The latter dominates lately. I still cook, that’s something.
• PhD in Bioorganic Chemistry (Title: Nucleic Acids NMR studies – Structure and Dynamics) from Uppsala University, 2005, Supervisors: Tatiana Maltseva (later Agback) and Jyoti Chattopadhyaya, Opponent: Douglas H. Turner, Rochester
• 2005-2009: Worked in the NMR group at Medivir AB, a small to medium sized pharmaceutical company in Stockholm
• 2009-2011: PostDoc for John Sigurd Svendsen, UiT
• 2012-  Researcher, UiT. Managing the UiT NMR lab and SmallStruct.
• Scientific interests: NMR studies of Structure and Dynamics, and interactions between biomolecules and/or biomembranes.
• Main scientific activities: Structure elucidation, conformation analysis and configuration, interactions between small molecules/peptides and proteins or membranes, protein-protein interactions, protein dynamics and enzyme characterization. Drug discovery.
• Supervisor for Ravdna Sarre and Philip Rainsford. Employing another PhD student Q3 2018 (RCN-FRIPRO) and a postdoc in 2019 (RCN-DLN)