2015
Congratulations to Tanja on the arrival of her baby
Heartiest Congratulations to Tanja on the arrival of her baby! Peter arrrived by express delivery ;-) and had impressive 3510 g. We wish Tanja and Thomas a wonderful time with the little boy and make the best of the time. With best wishes for many rewarding years ahead with the family.
New paper in Nature Communications
Congrats to Moritz and David to their new paper appearing in Nature Communications. David and Moritz developed a high-resolution method that allows to image single G-protein coupled receptors and to simultaneously detect their binding to two different ligands. The work was done in collaboration with Brian Kobilka (Stanford) and Shaun Coughlin (UCSF).
New paper in Nature Communications
Congrats to Barbara on her new paper appearing in Nature Communications. Barbara developed together with the group of Andreas Hierlemann a micropillar assay that mimics the mechanical properties of the epithelia.
New paper in PNAS
Congrats to Cedrics new paper appearing in PNAS. Cedric found ways to mechanically control mitotic progression in animal mitotic cells.
New paper in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Congrats to Yosh to his new paper appearing in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. Yosh together with the group of Sebastian Hiller (Biozentrum, University of Basel) developed a new nanotechnological assay to study the chaperone assisted folding of integral beta-barrel proteins. By combining this assay with NMR spectroscopy it became possible to unravel the mechanisms of how periplasmic chaperones assist the folding of outer membrane proteins into lipid membranes.
Goodbye to David Alsteens
David accepted a fantastic offer for a full professorship at the University of Leuven, Belgium. The goodbye party was fantastic, we crossed the rhine with the ferry about 20 times and then torkeling to the barbecue. Daniel managed to burn all sausages and demonstrated hi excellent experimental skills. We are grateful that he gave the goodbye party an unforgetable taste which some had to wash off by swimming in the rhine at midnight. We wish David the very very very best! May the force be with you!
New paper in Nature Methods
Congrats to David and Moritz to their new paper appearing in Nature Methods. David and Moritz developed a high-resolution method that allows to image single G-protein coupled receptors and to simultaneously detect their free-energy landscape of ligand binding. The work was done in collaboration with Brian Kobilka (Stanford) and Shaun Coughlin (UCSF).
Tiebreak!
Our tennis star Moritz successfully passed his PhD exams at the ETH Zürich giving a perfect match. After all formalities have been done he will be the NEW Dr. super tennis in our lab. Apologize that we do cannot show any of the compromising pictures of the PhD party - after which Moritz right away went to Japan. We do not know whether or when he comes back ;-)
