PhD candidate Kjersti Oberle standing next to advisor James Bour in Schaap Lecture Hall
Kjersti, of the Bour Lab, is one step closer to her PhD after giving her 4th year talk on: "Catalytic Synthesis of Highly Microporous Polymers via Olefin Metathesis" at #wsuchemistry. Congratulations, Kjersti! #ChemSky #NextStopPhD #chembio
He also hinted at a new class of synthetic antibiotics that is in current development at Roche. Hopefully there are many more new antibiotics in the future. (8/8)
#Antibiotics #DrugDiscovery #DrugDevelopment #ChemBio #Chemistry #cryoEM #AMR #Resistance #Bacteria #SAR #Synthesis #Zosurabalpin
We are very happy that Thomas Clairfeuille from Roche visited us today for a very well attended LED3 Lecture. He talked about "The discovery and mechanism of lipid transport inhibition by the antibiotic Zosurabalpin".
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Antibiotics #DrugDiscovery #ChemBio #ChemSky
Lots of interest on nitrogenase cofactors assembly across @natureportfolio.nature.com Nitrogenases are enzymes that reduce atmospheric dinitrogen (N2) to ammonia (NH3) so that nitrogen can enter the biosphere. Three studies now focus on NifEN #chembio people: let's dive in!
Amazing talk by @janavolaric.bsky.social from our Molecular Physiology Department and @led3hub.bsky.social at #KNCVMCCB2026. She talked about her postdoctoral research in the Ed Tate lab into optical control of S-acyltransferase activity in mammalian cells.
#ChemSky #ChemBio #GeneticCodeExpansion
Nice article about #wsuchemistry student April Sweet Tapayan, recipient of the prestigious 2026 ACS Women Chemists Committee (WCC) Merck Research Award! So nice we are mentioning it twice:) Go, April! #chembio #Chemsky
clas.wayne.edu/chemistry/ne...
Laura Wijffelaars gave an interesting talk at #KNCVMCCB2026. She talked about her research into an ACKR3 inverse agonist with potential in the treatment of #MultipleSclerosis.
#ChemSky #ChemBio #DrugDiscovery #MS
Interesting talk by Karlijn Meerman at #KNCVMCCB2026. She talked about her #PhD research in the @feringalab.bsky.social about making photoswitchable cyclic peptides in collaboration with Nathaniel Martin of our @led3hub.bsky.social.
#ChemSky #ChemBio #Peptides #PhotoSwitch
How can virtual screening be combined with in-house synthesis to quickly evaluate hits?
@seanmckenna.bsky.social from our @led3hub.bsky.social talked about his exciting work on COMBINAUT that allows automated synthesis and purification.
chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....
#ChemSky #ChemBio #DrugDiscovery
She gave an amazing award lecture on "Enzymes made of DNA and RNA", with a laudatio by Andrea Rentmeister (@rentmeisterlab.bsky.social).
@gdchbiochem.bsky.social @gdchbiochem.bsky.social h.de #Biochemistry #Chemistry #ChemBio #RNA #DNA #Structure
Interesting talk by Emira Visser at #KNCVMCCB2026. She talked about her #PhD research in the group of Luc Brunsveld on the development of molecular glues for the interaction between Carbohydrate Response Element Binding Protein (ChREBP) and 14-3-3.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#ChemSky #ChemBio
The final stage of my #conference tour is today in Amsterdam at the spring meeting of the #MedChem and #ChemBio division of #KNCV in Amsterdam #KNCVMCCB2026.
Looking forward to a full day of exciting Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology #research.
(1/2)
mccb.kncv.nl/activities/f...
#Biochemistry2026 comes to an end!
We especially want to thank our organizers, Claudia Höbartner (@chlab.bsky.social) and Kathrin Lang (@klanglab.bsky.social), for an amazing job and all participants for making this a great conference. (1/2)
#Biochemistry #Chemistry #ChemBio
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Congratulations to the winners of the poster awards at #Biochemistry2026:
Felix Veitl
Stefan Jungwirth
Evgeniia Dorinova
We thank the Royal Society of Chemistry and Wiley for sponsoring the poster prizes!
The poster awards were awarded for these posters: (1/4)
#Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio
In the final talk of #Biochemistry2026, Stefan Raunser (@raunser-lab.bsky.social) gave an exciting overview of his group's research on "Unlocking the secrets of the cytoskeleton and heart muscle".
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
#Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio #Structure #cryoEM
Interested in uncovering how the #Golgi reacts to stress? Apply NOW to the @hellerschmiedlab.bsky.social @imprs-lm.bsky.social #chembio #cellbio #biochemistry
Julia Bartoli gave an insightful talk at #Biochemistry2026 about the topic "A host tRNA Drives Assembly of a Cytoplasmic Viral Transcription Machine".
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Biochemistry #cryoEM #ChemSky #ChemBio #tRNA #RNA #Virus
@gdch.de
"Dynamics of A-Minor Interactions in the Bacterial Ribosome"
Christian Steinmetzger (@stonebutcher.bsky.social) talked at #Biochemistry2026 about his work on this topic in the group of @katjapetzold.bsky.social.
#Biochemistry #Ribosome #ChemSky #ChemBio #NMR
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Great talk by Kathrin Leppek (@katleppek.bsky.social) at #Biochemistry2026. She talked about her work on the topic "Synthetic circRNAs employ IRES activity for translation in cells and in cell-free translation systems".
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#ChemSky #Biochemistry #ChemBio #RNA #IRES
Interesting talk by Sabine Schneider (@sabschn.bsky.social) at #Biochemistry2026. She talked about her group's work on "Novel TET3 enzymes for next-generation epigenetic sequencing".
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#Epigenetics #Biochemistry #ChemBio #ChemSky #Sequencing #TET
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How can #extremophilic #archaea make proteins in almost boiling water?
At #Biochemistry2026, Schraga Schwartz gave a lecture about the many interesting #RNA modifications these organisms are using and how they can be studied.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio
The third day of #Biochemistry2026 is off to a great start with an inspiring lecture by Schraga Schwartz. He talked about "RNA at the Edge: Extreme Biology as a Lens on RNA Modification Principles".
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio #RNA #extremophiles #Archaea
Congratulations to Claudia Höbartner (@chlab.bsky.social) on being awarded the prestigious Albrecht-Kossel-Preis of the @gdch.de at #Biochemistry2026. A very well deserved honor.
Claudia gave an amazing award lecture on "Enzymes made of DNA and RNA".
#Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio #RNA #DNA
The award was presented by GDCh president, Ruth Bieringer, with a laudatio by Andrea Rentmeister (@rentmeisterlab.bsky.social). (2/2)
#Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio #RNA #Structure #Award
We are excited that we could today award four Young Scientist Awards for outstanding publications and dissertations over the last two years.
The awardees are Johannes Morstein, Sarah Emmert, Frederik Schmidt and Lukas Zeisel. Congratulations to all awardees! (1/3)
#Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio
Can the functions of #metalloenzymes be further improved using non-canonical amino acids?
In her talk at #Biochemistry2026, Alexandra Deliz Liang talked about the usage of genetic code expansion in order to improve the activity of metalloenzymes.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#ChemSky #ChemBio
Alexandra Deliz Liang gave an exciting talk at #Biochemistry2026. She talked about her group's research on "Metalloenzyme engineering with genetic code expansion".
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio #ProteinEngineering #Metalloenzyme
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Max Heckelmann from the group of Don Hilvert presented his research at #Biochemistry2026. He talked about the "Generation and Evolution of de novo Designed Chorismate Mutases".
#ProteinDesign #Evolution #Biochemistry #ChemBio #ChemSky
Can proteins with a certain function be designed from scratch?
Interesting talk by Birte Höcker at #Biochemistry2026. She talked about her group's research on "Design for function - building enzymes from scratch".
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#ProteinDesign #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio #AI
Xinlai Cheng gave an interesting talk at #Biochemistry2026. He talked about his group's research into "Targeting the Spliceosomal Protein USP39 Through Allosteric Ligands and PROTAC-Induced Degradation".
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#Splicing #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio
