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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)
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)
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.
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)
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)
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.
