News and Updates

Review on functionalizing nucleic acids as biomaterials published in Small, co-authored with the Weil group at MPIP.

New collaborative paper with the Weil group published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. on how co-assemblies regulate the catalytic activity of peptide fibrils.

Aiswarya Rajeev joins the Biomolecular Systems and Design Lab as our first doctoral researcher, working on membrane activity of self-assembling peptide fibrils.

Collaborative paper with the Synatschke group on designing peptide fibril hydrophobic cores for enhanced neural regeneration published in Small Science.

Torsten John appointed Liaison Lecturer (Vertrauensdozent) for the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry (DBG) at Constructor University.

Contributed talk on molecular mechanisms of peptide assembly for biomaterials at the SupraLife Final International Conference, Aveiro, Portugal.

Torsten John appointed Deputy Study Program Chair for the M.Sc. Advanced Materials programme at Constructor University.

Torsten John appointed Liaison Lecturer (Vertrauensdozent) for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, mentoring and supporting scholarship holders.

Invited talk on peptide self-assembly at interfaces at the Bremen Life Sciences Meeting, Bremen, Germany.

Two contributed talks at ACS Spring National Meeting in San Diego on peptide self-assembly and amyloid fibril formation.