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21st RTG Symposium will focus on Cellular Delivery

March 20,

2024

We are looking forward to an exciting program taking place on April 11-12, 2024 at FMP Berlin.

More to follow soon.

Congratulations to Zeinab Mahfouz!

January 31,

2024

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

20th RTG Symposium will focus on the topic "The colorful tree of life" 

January 3,

2024

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

View program here.

Congratulations to Kay Hommernick!

October 18,

2023

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

19th RTG Symposium will focus on Stereochemistry and Bacterial Communication

September 30,

2023

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

View program here.

Congratulations to our former PhD student Dr. Caroline Knittel!

September 12,

2023

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

Congratulations to our PhD student Milo Cornelissen!

June 28,

2023

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

See further information here.

18th RTG Symposium at Technology Park Humboldthain will focus on Structural proteomics

June 7,

2023

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).

View program here.

We are pleased to announced that ...

May 8,

2023

... 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.

Congratulations to our grad student Kay Hommernick and former PhD students Dr. Leonardo Kleebauer

April 17,

2023

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

See article here.

Congratulations to our grad student Manuel Gemander and former PhD students Dr. Caroline Knittel and Dr. Romina Schnegotzki

April 4,

2023

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

See article here.

Congratulations to Christian Stieger

March 28,

2023

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

Congratulations to Marius Wenz

March 21,

2023

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

Congratulations to our former PhD student Dr. Jan-Oliver Kapp-Joswig

February 6,

2023

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

Congratulations to our PhD student Nikolai Klishin and gratuated PhD student Marcus Michaelis

January 29,

2023

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

Congratulations to our PhD student Kay Hommernick

January 25,

2023

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

Congratulations to our PhD student Marius Wenz

December 26,

2022

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

Congratulations to Fabian Schildhauer

November 30,

2022

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

Congratulations to Milo Cornelissen

November 28,

2022

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).

17th RTG Symposium will focus on Affinity-based Protein-Profiling

November 7,

2022

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)

Congratulations to Marius!

October 30,

2022

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!

16th RTG Symposium will focus on Stephen B.H. Kent and the Legacy of Emil Fischer

October 10,

2022

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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15th RTG Symposium at HU Berlin will focus on Synthesis and bioactivity of modified peptides

September 22-23,

2022

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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Congratulations to Lena Grass (Wahl Lab)

September 14,

2022

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

14th RTG Symposium at FU Berlin will focus on intrinsically disordered peptides and methods to study them!

July 28-29,

2022

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

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Congratulations to Timur Bulatov (Süssmuth Lab)

July 13,

2022

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

3rd RTG Retreat will take place on June 23-24 in Wandlitz

June 23-24,

2022

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

Congratulations to Marcus Michaelis (Möller Lab)

May 25,

2022

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

13th RTG Symposium in Potsdam-Golm will focus on Peptide synthesis and structural Biology

May 6,

2022

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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Congratulations to Leonardo Kleebauer (Süssmuth Lab)

April 8,

2022

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

Congratulations to Romina Schnegotzki (Süssmuth Lab)

April 1,

2022

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

Congratulations to Ludwig Sinn (Rappsilber Lab)

March 29,

2022

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

12th RTG Symposium will be focussed on Peptide Aggregation and Self-Organization

February 24-25,

2022

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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Congratulations to Julia Krumbholz (Dittmann Lab)

January 21,

2022

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

11th RTG Symposium will focus on Membrane modelling & Spectroscopic Methods

November 1,

2021

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)

2nd RTG Retreat will take place in November 2021 at beautiful Hotel Amsee in Waren/Müritz

November 1,

2021

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

Stay tuned for a detailed program!

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Congratulations to our grad student Leonardo Kleebauer!

October 19

2021

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!

Congratulations to Dr. Anselm Schneider

September 30

2021

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

Congratulations to Dr. Caroline Knittel

September 21

2021

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

10th RTG Seminar - we will meet in person again!

September 8-9

2021

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

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Student representative election

July 9

2021

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

9th RTG Seminar - First in-person Meeting in 2021!

June 22-23

2021

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

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8th RTG Seminar - 4th Virtual Meeting

April 20-21

2021

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

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Congratulations to Dr. Anselm Schneider

April 15

2021

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

Congratulations to Kay Hommernick & Leonardo Kleebauer

March 31

2021

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

Congratulations to Dr. Anselm Schneider

February 19

2021

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

7th RTG Seminar - 3rd Virtual Meeting

February 17-18

2021

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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6th RTG Seminar - 2nd Virtual Meeting

December 10

2020

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

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Congratulations!

November 10

2020

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

Looking forward to Berlin Science Week!

November 1-10

2020

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

5th RTG Seminar

October 6-7

2020

We are excited to meet us again in person!

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

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„Die geheime Macht der Pilze“

September 21

2020

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

View plant e documetation at ZDF mediathek

4th RTG Seminar - 1st Virtual Meeting

May 26

2020

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

4th RTG Seminar

April 23-24

2020

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

Due to Corona crises the seminar is postponed!

1st RTG Retreat

March 2-3

2020

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

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New publication available

January 31

2020

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.

3rd RTG Seminar

January 23-24

2020

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

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Emil-Fischer Memorial Symposium

December 9

2019

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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Challenges in Peptide & Proteins Synthesis-Day

December 6

2019

Invited speakers: Stephen Kent (University of Chicago)

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2nd RTG Seminar

October 24 - 25

2019

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

Jim Naismith (Rosalind Franklin Insitute, UK)

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New Professor

September 13

2019

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

1st RTG Seminar

June 14

2019

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)

Launch of SynPepBio

December

2018

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.

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