Our latest work just hit bioRxiv! Combination of High-Resolution x-ray structures and biological assays reveal new insight in Suramin related drug resistance.

📢New preprint from Erec Stebbins and Nina Papavasiliou's labs. Congrats to all who contributed to this fascinating work through a collaboration of scientists from DKFZ, University of Basel and EMBL Full-text in the link below 👇🏼

Die Neue Runde #Jugendforscht läuft an - Ich bin gespannt darauf welche Projekte bis nächstes Frühjahr ausgetüftelt werden und hoffe auch viele bekannte Gesichter wiederzusehen!

#mpm20 first day was great! Second presentation on Thursday and until then: talks talks talks :)

Nanobody Mediated Macromolecular Crowding Induces Membrane Fission and Remodeling in the African Trypanosome biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

Our latest work (and my PhD main project) is now in bioRxiv! Nanobody-VSG xray structures re-cast the understanding of the back-and-forth host-pathogen interaction and new insight in membrane fission events, without a dedicated protein machinery! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Also our other work got published today in Nature Microbiology ! Another great collaboration on the quite old drug suramin and its pathway with visualisation of the corresponding VSGsur crystal structure! nature.com/articles/s4156…

Der 56. Jugend forscht Wettbewerb startet mit den Regionalwettbewerben! Mein drittes Jahr im Ehrenamt der Jury Biologie wird dieses mal allerdings nicht vor Ort in der Sparkasse Herford stattfinden, sondern dieses Jahr komplett online. Ich freue mich auf viele spannende Arbeiten!

When corona happened we paused our current projects and worked together with many scientists from different fields to fight the virus. The project on virus-, and especially mutant-, detection, ( w/ B.Casati as first and Riccardo Pecori as corresp. author) is out now as pre-print!

really cool work - check it out!

Finally, our work on immune epitope mapping and membrane shedding events (induced by molecular crowding) on the trypanosome surface has been published! Super happy - really cool project and fantastic collaboration with @ZEB_UniWue. 🥳 cell.com/cell-reports/f…