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Luise Franz from the Hackenberger group has successfully defended her PhD thesis on "Cell specific delivery of functional proteins and nanobodies via rationally designed cell-penetrating peptides". Congratulations! She will continue as PostDoc at the FMP Berlin.

Congratulations to Stella Scholz from the Dittmann group for successfully defending her PhD Thesis at the University Potsdam. She works as teacher for chemistry and biology in Brandenburg.

The 22nd RTG Symposium was hosted at TU Berlin. Guest speakers were Aphrodite Kapurniotu (TU Munich), Bernd Reif (Helmholtz and TU Munich), José Martins (Ghent University) and Micha Fridman (Tel Aviv University). Here is the full agenda.

The RTG members met at Hotel Bollmannsruh am Beetzsee, Brandenburg. The career development focus was publishing in academia and guests were Christine Lang (microbiologist and entrepreneur, Berlin), Pierre Stallforth (Leibniz-HKI, Jena), Ute Hellmich (University Jena) and Andrew Jamieson (University of Glasgow). Full agenda.

Dr. Erik Werner has been appointed as new Project Coordinator and follows Maria Seidel in this position. Dr. Werner is a chemist by training, earned a PhD in structural biology and has experience in research project management and scientific motion design. The Research Training Group thanks Maria Seidel for her great support over the past years and wishes her all the best in her future career.

Guest speakers at the 21st RTG Symposium at FMP Berlin were Jan VIncent Arafiles (FMP Berlin), Ines Neundorf (University Köln), Harald Kolmar (University Darmstadt, Shiroh Futaki (Kyoto University) and Christian Widman (University of Lausanne. Here the full meeting agenda.

Zeinab is the most recent PhD student from our graduate school who has defended her PhD thesis!

Invited Speakers are: Julia Schumacher (BAM Berlin), Silvia Vignolini (MPI of Colloids and Interfaces, Berlin) as well as Norina Ackermann (Adidas)

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Kay is the most recent PhD student from our graduate school who has defended his PhD thesis!

Invited Speakers are: Jay Siegel (Zurich), Michael Meijlers (Ben Gurion University Tel Aviv) and Yuki Goto (University of Tokio).

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Our former graduate student Dr. Caroline Knittel has been awarded as the winner of Max-Bergmann-Kreis Young Scientists Award 2023!

Milo has won the UvA Thesis Prize 2023 for his master thesis "Incorporation of Directional and Quinone-Functionalised Macrocycles in Covalently Synthesised Rotaxanes."

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Invited Speakers are: Dina Schneidman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Guilia Glorani (MDC Berlin), Pascal Albanese (CEA Grenoble), Markku Varjosalo (University of Helsinki) and Antonio Calabrese (University of Leeds).

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... our review process is complete, and we have succeeded!

The DFG will award our RTG for the second funding period! Great thanks to the DFG, all the reviewers, our guests from the universities and Berlin senate, as well as our PhD students and contributing PIs, for their time and valuable support.

See DFG news here.

Their contributions on the transcriptional activation of albicidin resistance protein AlbA has been accepted for publication in Chemical Science.

See article here.

Their contributions on the discovery of lanthipeptide curvocidin has been published in Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed.

See article here.

Chris is the most recent PhD student from our graduate school who has defended his PhD thesis!

Marius is the most recent PhD student from our graduate school who has defended his PhD thesis!

His work on the CommonNNClustering has been published in the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling.
See article here.

Their work on the paxillin LIM3 domain is now available as preprint.
See article here.

His work on albicidin got published in Nature Catalysis!
See article here.

... and his collaborators from Suessmuth Lab for publishing another story on amatoxins - preprint available here.

Fabian is the most recent PhD student from our graduate school who has defended his PhD thesis!

Milo has won a Unilever Research Prize 2022 for his Master's project at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences under the supervision of Francesco Mutti (Biocatalysis) and Jan van Maarseveen (Synthetic Organic Chemistry).

Invited Sepeakers: Prof. Dr. Stephen Sieber (TU Munich), Prof. Dr. Markus Kaiser (Universität Düsseldorf),  Prof. Dr. Hermen Overkleeft (Leiden University),  Prof. Dr. Steven Verhelst (KU Leuven) and Prof. Dr. Ed Tate (Imperial College London)

Marius (Keller Lab) has published this important article on The occurrence of ansamers in the synthesis of cyclic peptides in collaboration with the Suessmuth group!

Invited Speakers: Prof. Dr. Stephen Kent (U Chicago, USA), Prof. Dr. Ashraf Brik (Technion Haifa, Isreal),  Prof. Dr. Christian Becker (Universität Wien, AT)

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Invited Sepeakers: Prof. Dr. Carlo Unverzagt (Universität Bayreuth), Prof. Dr. Diana Imhof (Universität Bonn),  Prof. Dr. Knud Jensen (University Copenhagen, DK), Prof. Dr. Christian Heinis (EPFL Lausanne, CH) and Dr. Robert Zitterbart (Belyntic GmbH, Berlin)

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Lena is the ninth PhD student from our college, that defend her thesis very successfully!

Invited Sepeakers: Prof. Dr. Florian Stengel (Universität Konstanz), Dr. Stefan Knauer (Universität Bayreuth) and  Dr. Sigrid Milles (FMP Berlin)

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Timur is the eighth PhD student from our college, that defend his thesis very successfully!

Invited Sepeakers: Prof. Dr. Ali Tavasolli (University of Southampton), Prof. Dr. Sam Gellmann (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Prof. Dr. Ronald Raines (MIT),  Prof. Dr. Anne Conibear (Universität Wien) and former RTG-members: Dr. Romina Schnegotzki, Dr. Ludwig Sinn and Dr. Marcus Michaelis

Marcus is the seventh PhD student from our college, that defend his thesis very successfully!

Invited Sepeakers: Prof. Dr. Oliver Zerbe (Universität Zurich), Dr. Jesko Koehnke (University of Glasgow) and  Prof. Dr. Han Sun (FMP Berlin/ TU Berlin)

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Leonardo is the sixth PhD student from our college, that defend his thesis very successfully!

Romina is the fifth PhD student from our college, that defend her thesis very successfully!

Ludwig is the fourth PhD student from our college, that defend his thesis very successfully!

Invited Sepeakers: Prof. Dr. Hans Börner (HU Berlin), Prof. Dr. Jean Chmielewski (Purdue University),  Prof. Dr. Aphrodite Karpurniotu (TU München), Prof. Dr. Derek Woolfson (Bristol University), Prof. Dr. Hanna Rapaport (Ben Gurion University of the Negev) and Prof. Dr. Joel Schneider (National cancer Institute, NIH)

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Julia is the third PhD student from our college, that defend her thesis very successfully!

Invited Sepeakers: Prof. Dr. Bert de Groot (MPI Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen), Prof. Dr. Karin Hauser (Universität Konstanz), Dr. Jaczek Kozuch (Freie Universität Berlin), Prof. Dr. Mischa Bonn (MPI for Polymer Research, Mainz) and Dr. Benedict Kemper (Corden Pharma International GmbH)

...that will deal with the career opportunities for young natural scientists!

Stay tuned for a detailed program!

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Leonardo (Suessmuth Lab) has published this important artical in Chemical Science on the  Improvement of the antimicrobial potency, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties of albicidin by incorporation of nitrogen atoms, that has been highlighted by Chemical View!

Our former graduate student Dr. Anselm Schneider has been awarded as the winner of Max-Bergmann-Kreis Young Scientists Award 2021!

Caroline is the second PhD student from our college, that defend her thesis very successfully!

Invited Speakers: Mathias Selbach (MDC Berlin) & Marcus Bantscheff (GSK Heidelberg)

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Congratulations to Luise Franz (AG Hackenberger) and Marius Wenz (AG Keller)! They have been elected as new student´s representatives in our RTG committee.

Invited Speakers: Norbert Sewald (Universität Bielefeld), Thomas Pillow (Genentech), Annette Beck-Sickinger (Universität Leipzig) & David Spring (University of Cambridge)

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Invited Speakers: Lars Haustedt (AnalytiCon Discovery GmbH), Jens-Peter von Kries (FMP Berlin) & Jürgen Maier-Rosenkranz (JMR Analytik)

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Our former graduate student Anselm has published this outstanding article on cell penetrating peptides in NatureChemistry!

Kay & Leonardo (Suessmuth Lab) has published this fantastic article on Acetylenic Replacement of Albicidin’s Methacrylamide Residues!

He is the first grad student of our RTG to defend.

Invited Speakers: Eric Schmidt (University of Utah), Oscar Kuipers (University of Groningen), Lutz Schmitt (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf) & Karsten Schnatbaum (JPT Peptides Technologies)

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...will be a colorful mix of Phd student´s talks and lecture on Good Manufacturing Practice (organized by GMP Academy)

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Christian Hackenberger receives breaktrough award in the category life sciences at Berlin Science week 2020

Vera Meyer (Category Science in the Arts) and Christian Hackenberger (Category Life Science) are nominated for the Falling Walls

We are excited to meet us again in person!

Invited speakers: Vera Meyer (TU Berlin) and Heiko Möller (Universität Potsdam)

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An environmental documentary about the secret power of fungi, shot at Meyer Labs.

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Invited speakers:  Frank Gombert (GPRS, Basel, CH)

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Invited speakers: Ali Tavassoli (University of Southampton, UK) and Frank Gombert (GPRS, Basel, CH)

Due to Corona crises the seminar is postponed!

Invited speakers: Christian Becker (Universität Wien, AU) and Dominik Sarma (belyntic, Berlin, GER)

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Congratulations to our RTG student Caroline Knittel and Prof. Suessmuth on the publication A Convergent Total Synthesis of Death Cap Toxin α-Amanitin published in Angew Chem Int Ed Engl.

Invited speakers: Sereina Riniker (ETH Zurich, CH) and Thomas Vorherr (Novartis, Basel, CH)

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Invited speakers: Geert-Jan Boons (Utrecht University), Thomas Carell (LMU München), Yael David (Sloan-Kettering Institute), Samuel Gellman (UW Madison/Wisconsin), Don Hilvert (ETH Zurich), Catherine Jackson (University of Oxford), Yasuhiro Kajihara (Osaka University), Stephen Kent (University of Chicago), Eric Kool (Stanford University), Hermen Overkleeft (Leiden University) and Helma Wennemers (ETH Zurich)

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Invited speakers: Stephen Kent (University of Chicago)

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Invited speakers: Helge Bode (Universität Frankfurt a.M.) and

Jim Naismith (Rosalind Franklin Insitute, UK)

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Bettina Keller has been appointed professor for Theoretical Chemistry at the Freie Universität Berlin

Invited speakers: Virginia Cornish (Columbia University, USA), Barbara Imperiali (Massachusetts Insitute of Technology, USA), Richard Payne (University of Sydney, AUS) and Ralph Schoenleber (Bachem AG, GER)

TU Berlin is to act as host university of the new Research Training Group (RTG2473/1) “Bioactive Peptides – Innovative Aspects of Synthesis and Biosynthesis”. The German Research Foundation (DFG) approved the funding of this new RTG on 9 November 2018. Spokesperson will be Prof. Roderich D. Süssmuth. The RTG will conduct research in the areas of molecular biology, biochemistry, biological chemistry and bioanalytics. The German Research Foundation will provide the RTG with funding of approximately EUR 4.5 million over a period of four and a half years from 1 April 2019 until 30 September 2023. Find out more details in the corresponding press release No. 228/2018 and the TU Intern Issue 12/2018.