Chris Oostenbrink

A watercolor rendering of a combined electrochemical reduction of CO2 to methanol with yeast based conversion of methanol to chemicals

8 PhD projects announced in a joint programme of BOKU University @bokuvienna.bsky.social TU Vienna @tuwien.at University Vienna @univie.ac.at on Green Chemistry!
Check details via the link ⬇️
The first 2 projects will be realised in my lab at BOKU.
www.tuwien.at/greenchem/en...

Glucose Oxidase Initiates Radical Polymerizations by Direct Electron Transfer to Monomers Glucose oxidase (GOx) is a widely used and studied enzyme, yet it continues to surprise with previously unknown activities. We report GOx to initiate radical polymerizations of acrylamides and methacr...

This is a paper by Eleonora Ornati and Iiulia Ushakova that I am really proud of. Who would have thought that the well-known Glucose Oxidase is up for some surprises, i.e., that it initiates radical polymerizations without the need for initiators or activation by light!
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Very happy to see version 2.0 of our advanced GROMOS tutorials out in LiveCoMS today! It shows how we can keep a tutorial up to date with the latest developments, but without having to start from scratch. A big ‘thank you’ to all co-authors for their work!

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Biomolecular Modeling: Goals, Problems, Perspectives Present day biomolecular modeling is limited in its application by four main problems: 1) the force-field problem, 2) the search problem, 3) the ensemble problem, and 4) the experimental problem. The...

Cool! It seems to be in line with the prediction of Wilfred van Gunsteren in 2006 in Angewandte. He predicted that we can do a whole human body for one second in the year 2172.

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Edgar Galicia Andrés presenting his talk on the Impact of Computer Simulations in Soil Science

Great start of the #MMSoilSci Symposium with a Keynote by Edgar Galicia Andrés on the Impact of Computer Simulations in #SoilScience followed by talks from Hessam Yazdani, Hannah Pollak, Milan Předota, and Sébastien Le Crom.
#MolecularModeling @bokuvienna.bsky.social

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Signpost to the symposium

Get together at BOKU University

Looking forward to three days of the International Symposium 2025 on Molecular modeling in soil science – achievements and perspectives #MMSoilSci hosted at @bokuvienna.bsky.social

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The hunting horn group of BOKU University “Gregor Mendl”

Our rector, Eva Schulev-Steindl, welcomes the international community of molecular soil modellers to BOKU University!

Our @cecamevents.bsky.social meeting on Molecular Modeling in Soil Science got started with the BOKU Hunting Horn Group and a welcome address by our Rector! Very excited about the program of the next days!

@bokuvienna.bsky.social #compchem #mmsoilsky

Good luck!

Congratulations to both you and to the university of Freiburg! Welcome to Europe!

Für unsere Stabsstelle am Department für Naturwissenschaften und nachhaltige Ressourcen suchen wir ein*e Office Manager*in im Bereich Forschung. Deadline am 18.9.! Join a great team @bokuvienna.bsky.social

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Johannes in front of one of his slides about the integration of experiments and simulation

This week, Johannes @jostoe.bsky.social did a brilliant job at presenting and defending his PhD thesis. It was pleasure to listen to the great discussion with examiners @sykhalid.bsky.social and Christian Schröder. Congratulations, Johannes!!

#compchem 💻🧪
@bokuvienna.bsky.social

BOKU University in Vienna is recruiting a full professor for Biochemistry! Check out the description below, apply and join us in beautiful Vienna.
@bokuvienna.bsky.social
🧪🧪🧪

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About one week left to apply for this PhD position in my group! Are you a computational chemist, with an interest in protein-protein interactions? Apply soon and join us in beautiful Vienna!

#compchem 🧪 @bokuvienna.bsky.social
@biotop-phd.bsky.social

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Our latest Best Practices article "Developing Monte Carlo Methodologies in Molecular Simulations" is out now and describes how to derive acceptance probabilities for a variety of Monte Carlo moves:
doi.org/10.33011/liv...

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banner informing about the conference Recombinant Protein Production RPP12, 7-9 October 2025, in Ulm in Germany

Just 5 more days to register and submit your abstract!
If you are working on Recombinant Protein Production, RPP12 is the conference to go! Oct. 7-9, Ulm, Germany.
Abstract submission and early bird registration still open until August 15!
www.efbiotechnology.org/RPP

Bene in front of an image of the cover of his thesis, entitled ‘The joys and pitfalls of accelerated enveloping distribution sampling’

It’s been a while already, but PhD student Bene did a great job at defending his PhD thesis, entitled ‘The joys and pitfalls of accelerated enveloping distribution sampling’. Congratulations, Dr. Bene!

Are you passionate about AI & molecular engineering? Just ‼️one‼️ week left to apply to the 2 PhD positions currently open in our team at Chalmers! 🎓 Apply to join us in here in lovely Gothenburg, Sweden 🇸🇪🤩

For details: ailab.bio/join-us

Interested in enhanced sampling for molecular dynamics simulations? Check out the latest LiveCoMS tutorial on Running Gaussian-accelerated Molecular Dynamics Simulations in NAMD:

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We will have a fully funded PhD position available in the context of out doctoral program Biomolecular Technology of Proteins. The project involves simulations of protein-protein interactions. Join us in beautiful Vienna and check out biotop.boku.ac.at/application2...

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Iuliia in front of a powerpoint slide describing some of her plans to continue her work at BOKU.

Today, Iuliia Ushakova presented her PhD project in the context of the @metrazymes.bsky.social program. Iuliia did the first part of her PhD at the
@bruns-lab.bsky.social, and now continues @bokuvienna.bsky.social ! Thanks to the @ec.europa.eu for making this possible.

Roelfes group - Open Positions PhD position on Hybrid biocatalytic cascades aided by Machine learning (1.0 FTE)

📢📢📢 PhD Opportunity!

Join our research group at RUG! We're seeking a motivated PhD student for a project on biocatalytic cascade processes combining natural and designer enzymes, supported by machine learning.
Click below to learn more — and feel free to share!

sites.google.com/rug.nl/roelf...

It really was a wonderful retreat! Thanks for all the great talks and discussions.

On show now in Venice at #UniversePavilion (in frame of #biennale)
Kristina Puljakova' wonderful piece on space survival aied by biotechnology.
The artist (2nd right) together with @bokuvienna.bsky.social scientists who worked with her during the lab residency

Welcome to Bluesky, BioToP! Looking forward to seeing the great BioToP-science highlighted here!

It was a great event, where I taught and learned a lot. Very happy that Metrazymes and @ec.europa.eu made this possible. We currently have two participants visiting our lab!

we are hiring:
Senior Scientist at the Institute of Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology @bokuvienna.bsky.social
- experience in bacterial biotechnology
- active German knowledge necessary for undergrad teaching
Initial contract until end of 2025. Extension possible!
boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...

If anyone has any tips for fellowships or grants or giftfunds our group can apply for (in the US), please send our way.

So far, we've not had much luck in raising funds... 💰 In this relatively popular area, so I feel like I'm doing something wrong 😅

Final boarding call for your future in bioengineering🚀

Takeoff tomorrow Mar 31, 23:59—last chance to apply for our PhD positions

🎯Computational Design of Optimal Bioprocesses
🔬Optimal Compartmentalization of Metabolic Pathways

Hop on before it’s too late www.circularbioengineering.at/jobsprogram2

There is still (a little bit) of time to apply for a PhD position revolving around QM/MM simulations in my group. Check out position ‘PhD 3.11’ at www.circularbioengineering.at/jobs

Martini-Based Coarse-Grained Soil Organic Matter Model Derived from Atomistic Simulations The significance of soil organic matter (SOM) in environmental contexts, particularly its role in pollutant adsorption, has prompted an increased utilization of molecular simulations to understand mic...

It implements this great work by Lorenz Dettmann:

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