This is how diverse the laboratories of UniSysCat are! Just as diverse as the labs is the research: we bring together different disciplines of the natural sciences - from #biology, #chemistry, #physics to #materials science & #engineering.

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The #UniSysCat team of Dr. Patrick Scheerer and Dr. Andrea Schmidt focuses on understanding how signal transduction of membrane proteins works and how certain enzymes function. To do this, they analyze the structure of these molecules using X-rays.

#spectroscopy #crystallography #charité

🔎 What are the researchers in the #UniSysCat group of Dr. Patrick Scheerer and Dr. Andrea Schmidt from #Charité doing?

🧑Scientists from Berlin's University of Medicine in a catalysis research cluster? Yes, of course, they are studying structure and function of proteins and enzymes (biocatalysts).

🔎 What is the #UniSysCat group of Dr. Ingo Zebger doing?

⚡They work with light! Ingo Zebger heads the research group “Spectroscopic characterization of metalloproteins” at @tuberlin.bsky.social. They use light to study how enzymes function, the natural catalysts in our body and other organisms.

🔎What is the #UniSysCat group of Prof. Peter Strasser researching?

🧪An age without fossil carbon? That’s the dream of Strasser’s group "Electrochemical Catalysis, Energy and Materials Sciences" at @tuberlin.bsky.social. They study catalysts for clean energy storage and conversion technologies.

📢The next #UniSysCat colloquium is calling, feel free to join: Pedro Reis, machine learning scientist at Bayer, will talk about his work on modelling #proteins

🗓️Sept 10, 5:15-6:30 pm
📍C264 @tuberlin.bsky.social

🤓Please write to info@unisyscat.de for the zoom link

➡️Read more: shorturl.at/8JbDl

📽️ If you want to learn more about #photocatalysis and how the team of Michael Schwarze at @tuberlin.bsky.social develops new photocatalytic processes, watch also the video about photocatalytic water splitting on the Youtube channel of #UniSysCat.

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🔎 What are the researchers in the #UniSysCat group of Prof. Reinhard Schomäcker and Prof. Michael Schwarze doing?

🧪 In the group "Reaction Engineering" at @tuberlin.bsky.social everything is about developing and optimizing chemical reactions to make them sustainable and efficient. #greenchemistry

#UniSysCat scientist Prof. Peter Hegemann has been very committed to the construction of the new center for optobiology. He is considered one of the co-founders of #optogenetics.

Learn more about his lab in this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hZ-...

📢 The #UniSysCat summer #newsletter is out now! We are pleased to keep you updated about the latest research highlights, current news and events from our cluster of excellence. #catalysis #chemistry #research

🌐 Feel free to download it from our website or subscribe: www.unisyscat.de/news-events/...

🔎What is the #UniSysCat group of Prof. Peter Hegemann doing?

🧬Peter Hegemann is professor of "Experimental Biophysics" at @humboldtuni.bsky.social. His team is doing research on photoreceptor proteins with the aim to find out how these can sense light and react to it. #optogenetics #biophysics

Chemiewende – Wie grüne Chemie unsere Zukunft prägt Chemie umgibt uns überall – und doch denken viele nur an Schulunterricht und Reagenzgläser. In dieser Folge geht es darum, warum wir eine 'Chemiewende' brauchen, wie Chemie nachhaltiger werden kann un...

"Wir müssen mal anfangen über die #Chemiewende zu sprechen, die zentrale Rolle dieser Chemie- und Stoffwende in den ganzen Wenden mal begreifen.", so #UniSysCat Postdoc Benjamin Steininger im Podcast.

🎧 Hört rein: exzellent-erklaert.podigee.io/60-chemiewen...

@dfg.de @tuberlin.bsky.social

🌍Können wir mit #Chemie die Welt retten?

💪Auf jeden Fall kann, muss und wird die Chemie dazu beitragen unsere Welt nachhaltiger zu machen!

💡Im Podcast #exzellenterklaert beschreiben zwei Experten von #UniSysCat wie wir mit viel Innovationsgeist und Mut zur Veränderung die #Chemiewende schaffen.

🔎 What are the researchers in the #UniSysCat group of Prof. Peter Neubauer doing?

🌿Peter Neubauer leads the "Bioprocess Engineering" group at @tuberlin.bsky.social. His team is researching how renewable resources can be converted into valuable products with biotechnological methods. #sustainability

🦠Research Highlight: Three #UniSysCat research teams from @fmp-berlin.de and the Kozuch group from @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social joined to study the structure of the tetrameric proton channel of the influenza A virus as function of the pH. #biochemistry #medicine #NMR

➡️Read more: shorturl.at/If63R

🔜 #UniSysCat colloquium calling: Dr. Marcus Tze-Kiat Ng from Dunia Innovations visits @tuberlin.bsky.social on Wednesday, August 13 and will give a talk on his research on "autonomous laboratory systems". #AI #KI

🖐️You'd like to join? Please write to info@unisyscat.de
➡️More info: shorturl.at/jCUP3

Metalloradical-driven enzymatic CO2 reduction by a dynamic Ni–Fe cluster - Nature Catalysis The mechanism by which the [NiFe4S4] cluster of carbon monoxide dehydrogenases (CODHs) catalyses CO2 reduction is poorly understood. Now the structures of all catalytically relevant states of a CODH a...

The #UniSysCat scientists Holger Dobbek @dobbek-lab.bsky.social (@humboldtuni.bsky.social) & Christian Lorent & Ingo Zebger (@tuberlin.bsky.social) showed how the flexibility of the nickel ion in the active site makes it the key player in CO₂ activation & conversion.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧪Research Highlight: From pollutant to valuable chemical product – Two new #UniSysCat studies show how bacteria convert the greenhouse gas CO₂. The studies have recently been published in #NatureCatalysis.

@dobbek-lab.bsky.social & @humboldtuni.bsky.social & @tuberlin.bsky.social & @nature.com

💚 You want to know more about the research of the "Functional Materials" team? Check out their website or the #UniSysCat website…

Photos taken by Thomas Humphrey. © UniSysCat

#energy #sustainability #womeninscience #material #nanotechnology #chemistry #biochemistry #biophysics #catalysis

🔎 What are the researchers in the #UniSysCat group of Prof. Arne Thomas doing?

⚙️ Arne Thomas, co-speaker of UniSysCat, leads the "Functional Materials" group at @tuberlin.bsky.social. They design nanostructured and porous materials for instance for filtration, storing gases or as catalyst carriers.

🧪Wie schaffen wir die #Chemiewende? – darum geht's im #Podcast “ #exzellenterklaert" mit #UniSysCat. Benjamin Steininger und Martin Rahmel sprechen über die grüne Zukunft der #Chemie und erörtern wie wir sie erreichen.

🎧Reinhören: exzellent-erklaert.podigee.io

@tuberlin.bsky.social #wisskomm

🔎 What are the researchers in the #UniSysCat group of Prof. Juri Rappsilber doing?

🧬 Juri Rappsilber, currently UniSysCat's speaker, leads the group "Bioanalytics" at @tuberlin.bsky.social, that is researching proteins, the fascinating molecules that drive nearly all processes in living organisms.

🔎 You want to know what the #UniSysCat research group of Prof. Holger Dobbek from @humboldtuni.bsky.social is doing?

🔬 They try to understand how certain enzymes function. They study structure and working mechanism of enzymes using techniques like protein crystallography.

#biology #catalysis

👋Feel free to join the next #UniSysCat colloquium! The talk will be held hybrid at @tuberlin.bsky.social & online (get the zoom link from info@unisyscat.de)

🧪Patricia Rodriguez Macia from @uniofleicester.bsky.social will talk about her work on artificial metalloenzymes.

➡️Info: shorturl.at/MOpIR

Peter Seeberger re-elected as Vice President of the DFG On July 2, the Vice Presidents of the German Research Foundation (DFG) have been elected. UniSysCat member Prof. Dr. Peter Seeberger, director at the MPICI and the CTC, has been re-elected for his sec...

#UniSysCat member Peter Seeberger was re-elected as Vice President of @dfg.de. The director at @mpici.bsky.social & founder of #CTC is starting his second term in office. We're pleased about his election, as Seeberger is very committed to the green transformation of #chemistry.

➡️ shorturl.at/Kx1di

The 2025 Gerhard Ertl Lecture Award goes to Prof. Dr. Héctor D. Abruña Every year, the Gerhard Ertl Lecture Award honors an outstanding scientist in the field of electrocatalysis. This year, Prof. Dr. Héctor D. Abruña receives the prestigious award named after UniSysCat'...

This year's Gerhard Ertl Lecture Award is well deserved - #UniSysCat heartily congratulates the esteemed catalysis researcher and pioneer of clean energy technologies Prof. Abruña! 👏

Save the date: The award ceremony takes place on December 10, 2025 at the @fhi-mpg.bsky.social.

shorturl.at/JKtyq

A look back at this year's EC²/BIG-NSE retreat at Döllnsee. The retreat featured excellent scientific presentations from #PhD students, sparking lively discussions across disciplines.

Read more: shorturl.at/rFas6

The EC²/BIG-NSE is an international doctoral program closely connected to #UniSysCat.

📽️ New video: What is a #hydrogenase and how does it work?

🧪 Hydrogenases are very cool biocatalysts that can split hydrogen! #UniSysCat researchers want to learn from it since #hydrogen is the #energy carrier of the future.

➡️ Check out what they already found out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqLw...

💚 "I like being a researcher, because you can work together with so many different people. That makes it interesting." as #UniSysCat scientist Philipp Isbrücker says. The chemist Philipp is a is doing his #PhD in the group of Prof. Schomäcker at @tuberlin.bsky.social.

📽️ youtube.com/shorts/ojVcx...

Would you like to watch more videos like that about Maik? Check out our Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsEk...

We asked some #UniSysCat researchers what they like about doing research. And their answers are inspiring!