Lab news

The last week of January was full of possibilities to present our research: Lilli and Shivangi presented their research in Basel, at the ISCB, while Aleksandr and Bekas presented their posters at the annual Research Festival of the Faculty of Medicin of Leipzig University.

The LamersLab had the first lab retreat! We spend two days in Zeitz, talking since and projects, cooking together, doing team building and visiting the "Brikettfabrik" learning something about cultural aspects of the area. It were intense and great few days! A special thanks to Lilli, which took over the main responsibility for organizing our trip!

The Pre-Doc Award at University Leipzig is awarded each year to 15 tandems of Pre-Docs and their junior-PI. It supports the graduates in preparation for doctoral research in multiple layers: funding them for one year, supporting them in career development and grant apllication writing. The junior-PIs are supported through the peer-cohort and coaching to strengthen their supervisorial skills.

The Lamers lab is very proud to be part of this year cohort with two tandems: Pharmacist Maximilian Hoffmann and MSc Tom Götze both proposed reasearch projects which have been selected for support. Congratulations and well done! That leaves Christina Lamers with double fun supervising two talented students on their way to a PhD.

Looking forward to an exciting Pre-Doc year!

PhD student Bekas Alo presented his poster "Development of new tool compounds to investigate binding sites of complement-related

integrin receptors" at the DPhG Annual Meeting in Tübingen in such a brilliant way, that it was awarded a poster price. Well deserved Bekas!

Our KIWI consortium consisting of BioNTech, University Mainz, Fraunhofer IMM und IZI-BB and University Leipzig starts with the second project to develop novel special lipids for mRNA therapeutics. Looking forward to great collaborations!

Abdul holds a PhD in Medicinal Chemistry, from the University of Tours (France) on the "Design, synthesis, biological evaluation and 3D-QSAR analysis of novel bioinspired imidazo[1,2-a:4,5-c’]dipyridines with antiproliferative, anti-migration and anti-invasive activities in triple negative breast cancer." He is super active publishing studies on computational design of possible therapeutics. Now he joins us to combine computational work with experimental data to develop novel macrocyclic peptides. Great to have you!

Finally, after long month of waiting our CEM Multi Pep I synthesizer arrived and was installed today! The first solid phase peptide synthesis is already running...

The ChemCore lab and LamersLab celebrated together by playing robot-beer pong, Tabu and Cards against humanity. Thanks all for participating and prepare the delicious snacks! It was a great year, more to come...

Preparing the lab as we need it, throwing out old stuff from former groups, thanks to all helping hands!