Jan Löwe focuses on the Bacterial Cytoskeleton, which he helped to discover. His work has demonstrated that the vast majority of bacteria contains homologues of the eukaryotic protein actin and tubulin. The bacterial proteins facilitate diverse and fundamental biological processes such as cell division, cell shape maintenance and DNA segregation through the formation of intracellular fibres. Jan did his PhD in the group of Robert Huber at the Max-Planck-Institute in Martinsried, Germany, before he moved to the MRC-LMB in Cambridge to work with Linda Amos. Jan is a member of the Royal Society (London) since 2008 and also a fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge, UK. Since 2010 Jan is joint head of the Structural Studies Division at LMB.