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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 beutiful 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!

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)

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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.