Author: Nike Heinss

Another SFB1551 paper is out! “Bias in, bias out – AlphaFold-Multimer and the structural complexity of protein interfaces” was just published on Current Opinion in Structural Biology.   Highlights Protein interfaces involving disordered protein regions are underrepresented in training data...

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of hosting Sam Wilken from the University of California Santa Barbara. Sam is a postdoc at the Saleh Lab and has been working on biomietic materials, namely self-assembled DNA systems that mimic the non-equilibrium structural...

We are excited to announce that Michael te Vrugt (JGU, Physics Department) just joined the SFB1551 as fully funded member with project entitled “Nucleation dynamics in field theories for intracellular phase separation”  “The overall aim of this project is the investigation...

2025 marks two significant milestones in the global movement for gender equality and women’s empowerment: the 10th anniversary of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science and the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action....

Exciting News! Our New PINs & Socks Are Here! Remember the buzz from our last retreat when we announced the launch of our exclusive SFB1551 PIN collection and the brand-new Sock model? Well, the wait is over—they’ve officially arrived, and we...

Grateful for the inspiring talk, at the Joint New Year’s Colloquium, “The Beauty of Old Cells – Narrating Age Between Culture and Biology,” delivered by Prof. Mita Banerjee from the Obama Institute at Johannes Gutenberg University. The talk explored how...

Another SFB1551 paper is out! “Sequence determinants of protein phase separation and recognition by protein phase-separated condensates through molecular dynamics and active learning” was published on Faraday Discussions. Abstract “Elucidating how protein sequence determines the properties of disordered proteins and their phase-separated...

We are thrilled to announce an opening two fully funded Postdoctoral or PhD student positions in Biophysics and/or Chemical/Synthetic Biology in the Lemke Lab! BackgroundIn higher eukaryotes, proteins that lack apparent folded structure are enriched in many vital processes. The group...

We are excited to announce that Shikha Dhiman just joined the SFB1551 as fully funded member with project entitled “Covalent and Non-Covalent Macromolecular Approach for Precision and Switchable Protein Oligomerization: Exploring Fundamental Insights and Control Cellular Functions”   “In summary, our...

Another SFB1551 paper is out! “A genetically encoded anomalous SAXS ruler to probe the dimensions of intrinsically disordered proteins” was just published on PNAS Biophysics and Computational Biology. Abstract Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) adopt ensembles of rapidly fluctuating heterogeneous conformations, influencing their...