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Gert Weber from the MX group has won second place at the HZB Technologietransfer price competition with his project "Enhanced cyanobacterial protein colourants for food industry, solar technology and scientific applications". Congratulations! Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin BESSY@HZB

MX group abroad: this month, Laila Benz and Bill Scanlan from the MX group are at the Australian Synchrotron near Melbourne, visiting the MX beamlines and doing some exciting experiments! Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin BESSY@HZB lightsources.org

This Thursday at 1.00 pm CET, Tatjana from the MX group will talk about "Crystallographic Fragment Screening at the HZB" as part of the ECA lunchtime webinars - if you are interested, register for this free talk here: eventbrite.com/e/24th-eca-lun… Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin BESSY@HZB lightsources.org

New paper out ACS_Omega, with data collected at BL 14.1 and 14.2 and with contributions from Manfred S. Weiss and Jan Wollenhaupt. You can read the paper here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin BESSY@HZB

To all of our users, we wish a very merry christmas and a great start into a healthy and sucessfull new year, filled with exciting discoveries!

Are you interested in a post-doc position that allows you to do exciting science using x-ray crystallography? Then come and join us as part of the joint MX collaboration! More information and how to apply here (website in german): haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/st… Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin BESSY@HZB

Exciting news: the first 2024 structures with data collected at our MX beamlines are out in the Protein Data Bank! 8RNV, 8RNW and 8RNX are structures of Lysozyme soaked with Ruthenium compounds. Check them out at the PDB! rcsb.org/structure/8RNV BESSY@HZB lightsources.org Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin

Very happy news: after the cyber attack, our beamline 14.2 is now back in operation - our first happy users are collecting their data and using our new sample changer! Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin lightsources.org BESSY@HZB

Out now in ChemMedChem: a paper describing the development of inhibitors against Furin, a protease involved in the activation of Influenza virus, featuring contributions from our group and data collected at BL 14.2. Read it here: doi.org/10.1002/cmdc.2… Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin BESSY@HZB

Out now, in Structural Biology: A new paper from Neumann et al, with contributions from Jan Wollenhaupt and Manfred S. Weiss. Read all about it here: doi.org/10.1107/S20597… BESSY@HZB Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin

Hot of the press in ChemMedChem: A new paper with contributions from Manfred S. Weiss and Jan Wollenhaupt, featuring data collected at BL 14.2. It describes new Furin inhibitors partly based on fragments, even making front cover! doi.org/10.1002/cmdc.2… Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin BESSY@HZB

Yesterday, four our group outing, the MX group did a little 35 km bike tour through the beautiful countryside south of berlin – while the weather was a bit overcast, much fun was had!

We are very happy to host the 11th Joint MX day on the 4th of July in Adlershof, a full day of interesting science with exciting talks from structural biology groups from all over Berlin. The Joint MX day starts at 9:30 and you can find the program here: helmholtz-berlin.de/forschung/oe/p…

Hot off the press: a new paper in the European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, with contributions from Manfred S. Weiss. Read all about the structure-based mapping of the KDM4D binding pocket here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ejme… Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin BESSY@HZB Elsevier Chemistry

Out now in Structural Biology : A new paper with contributions from Manfred S. Weiss, about crystallographic fragment screening against a protein from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Read all about it here: doi.org/10.1107/S20597… BESSY@HZB Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin

If you want to know how an internship during the HZB Summer Student Program looks like, read this blog post from Christina Papaefthymiou, who stayed with the MX group, working on PET-degrading enzymes and tells you all about it here: science.hzbblog.de/journey-into-s… Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin BESSY@HZB

Out now in Structural Biology Communications: a new paper about crystallographic fragment screening against an enzyme from Bacillus subtilis, with contributions from Manfred S. Weiss and Jan Wollenhaupt . Read all about it here: doi.org/10.1107/S20532… Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin BESSY@HZB

Exiting news: a new publication describing the HZB-MX F2X fragment-screening facility in all aspects is out in Applied Research. Read all about our facility here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ap… Congratulations to Tatjana, Melanie and the entire F2X-team. Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin BESSY@HZB

Just published in Structure: A review with contributions from Manfred S. Weiss, detailing the challenges, state-of-the-art and future directions for integrated structural biology at European research infrastructure sites. doi.org/10.1016/j.str.… Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin BESSY@HZB Instruct-ERIC