Group Members
Group Head
Senior Scientists
PhD Students
Aparna Palakkurussi Rathessan
PhD Candidate
Structure-Activity Relationship study of β - hairpin motifs
Master Students
Student Assistants
Administrative/Technical Staff
Susanne Reinhold
Medical Technologist for Laboratory Analysis (MTL)
Former Members |
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Guest Professors |
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Name |
Research Project |
Time Period / Current Employer |
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Dr. Kashiwada Ayumi |
De novo design of artificial alpha-helical coiled-coil peptides |
March-August 2009 Department of Applied Molecular Chemistry, College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University, Narashino, Chiba, Japan |
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Postdoctoral Researchers |
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Name |
Research Project |
Time Period / Current Employer |
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Dr. Johann Moschner |
Synthesis of fluorinated amino acids |
2015-2020 |
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Dr. Aileen Justies |
Attachment of polymer-peptide-conjugates to surfaces |
2012-2013 Université de Bordeaux, ENSCBP Institut Polytechniques de Bordeaux, France |
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Dr. Jérémie Mortier |
Chemoinformatics and molecular dynamics |
2010-2012 Postdoc, Freie Universität Berlin,Germany |
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Dr. Cosimo D. Cadicamo |
Peptide inhibitors of secreted aspartic proteinases |
2006-2011 Lead Pharma Medicine B. V. Nijmegen, Netherlands |
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Dr. Jyotirmoy Maity |
Synthesis of proline chimeras |
2010-2011 Postdoc, Karolinska Institute, Sweden |
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Dr. Rene Smits |
Synthesis of fluorinated amino acids for SPPS |
2005-2007 ABX GmbH, Radeberg, Germany |
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Doctoral Students |
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Name |
Research Project |
Time Period / Current Employer |
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Dr. Jakob Leppkes |
Site-specific fluorination of serine protease inhibitor BPTI for the investigation of protein-protein interactions |
2017-2022 |
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Dr. Dorian J. Mikolajczak |
Peptide-gold nanozymes as catalysts for green chemistry applications from cascade catalysis to carbon capture |
2016-2020 Postdoc, Nynke Dekker Lab, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands |
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Dr. Katharina Hellmund (geb. Hagen) |
Coiled-coil based 3D scaffolds as highly specialized biological microenvironments |
2015-2019 |
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Dr. Chaitanya Kumar Thota |
Multivalent Self-Assembling Peptide and Graphene-Peptide Derivatives Towards Nanomedicine |
2014-2019 |
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Dr. Ana Rita de Lima Fernandes |
Investigation of supramolecular assemblies based on peptide de novo coiled coil scaffolds |
2015-2019 |
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Dr. Susanne Huhmann |
Stabilization of peptides by site-specific incorporation of fluorinated amino acids: Model studies and the development of fluorinated, peptide-based HIV-1 fusion inhibitors |
2013-2018 |
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Dr. Federica Agostini |
From enzymatic in vitro and in vivo synthesis of fluorinated amino acids to fluorine-based bacteria |
2014-2018 Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany |
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Dr. Kristin Folmert |
Four Models for Peptide Engineering |
2012-2018 KNAUER Wissenschaftliche Geräte GmbH, Berlin Germany |
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Dr. Stella Vukelic |
Synthesis of fluorinated amino acids and their derivatives in flow |
2012-2016 Scientist, Galapagos, Mechelen, Belgium |
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Dr. Daniel Schöne |
Ladungs- und Peptidliganden-präsentierende coiled coil Peptide für multivalente Interaktionen mit Gold-Nanopartikeln und Tandem SH2-Domänen |
2011-2015 |
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Dr. Jan-Stefan Völler |
Activation, proofreading and translation of aliphatic fluorinated amino acids by class la AARSs |
2011-2016 Postdoc, AG Budisa, TU Berlin, Germany |
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Dr. Jason Heier |
De novo self-assembling peptides possessing esterase properties |
2010-2016 BAM, Berlin, Germany |
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Dr. Elsa Zacco |
Coiled-coil peptides as multivalent scaffolds for carbohydrates: From receptor targeting to vaccines exploiting sugar-protein interactions |
2011-2015 Postdoc, King's College, London, UK |
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Dr. Shijie Ye |
Site-specific incorporation of fluorinated amino acids into basic pancreatic trypsin inhibitor |
2007-2014 patent law training, Düsseldorf,Germany |
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Dr. Vivian Asante |
Investigation of the impact of fluorinated amino acids on protease stability of peptides |
2008-2014 Research Gate, Berlin, Germany |
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Dr. Elisabeth Nyakatura |
Studying the interaction profiles of nonnatural amino acids- towards predicting their specific applications at α-helical interfaces |
2007-2013 Postdoc, Albert Einstein College, New York, USA |
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Dr. Ulla I. M. Gerling-Driessen |
Structural characterization of coiled coil-based amyloid-forming model systems |
2007-2013 Postdoc, Bertozzi Lab, Stanford University, CA, USA |
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Dr. Enrico Brandenburg |
Investigations on the mechanism of amyloid formation |
2008-2012 |
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Dr. Raheleh R. Araghi |
α-helical coiled coil mimicry by alternating β-and γ-amino acid sequences |
2007-2011 Postdoc, MIT, Boston, MA, USA |
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Dr. Malgorzata Broncel |
How posttranslational modifications influence amyloid formation |
2006-2010 Postdoc, Imperial College of London, UK |
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Dr. Jessica Falenski |
O-glycosylation and depsipeptide bonds - folding aspects of α-helical coiled coils |
2006-2010 Deutsche Extrakt Kaffee GmbH, Berlin, Germany |
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Dr. Mario Salwiczek |
Biophysical aspects of single fluoroalkylamino acid substitutions within a natural polypeptide environment |
2005-2010 Postdoc, CSIRO Melbourne, Australia Glycouniverse, Berlin, Germany |
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Dr. Sarah C. Wagner |
Peptide-nanoparticle networks |
2006-2009 Postdoc, Bristol University, UK |
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Dr. Toni Vagt |
Investigation of the interactions of fluroalkyl substituted amino acids in a polypeptide environment |
2005-2008 Postdoc, ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
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Dr. Kevin Pagel |
Following polypeptide folding and assembly with conformational switches |
2004-2008 Postdoc, Carol Robinson, Oxford University, UK Professor, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
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Dr. Christian Jäckel |
Investigations on properties and interactions of non-natural (mainly fluorinated) amino acids in peptides and protein environments; design of novel foldamers as mimics of native protein secondary structures |
2004-2006 Postdoc, Donald Hilvert, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Novozymes A/S, Denmark Chr. Hansen A/S, Denmark |
