📣 Upcoming seminar (UCSF | QBI)
We’re excited to share that Prof. Christian Freund will be giving a seminar:
🗓️ Feb 6
🕛 12:00–1:00 PM
📍 Mission Hall, Room 1400 (UCSF)
Christian’s presentation will explore connections between protein structure & dynamics with key questions in molecular immunology.
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Lab life update 🧪📓
Recurring procedures meeting today: quick check-in on protein workflows, contamination control, orders, and protocols.
🎯 Best takeaway: troubleshooting works best when it’s collective.
📷 Snapshot from the meeting.
#LabLife #Reproducibility #TeamScience
16.01.2026 10:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
15.01.2026 15:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Behind the Scenes of the Freund Lab #1
Meet Dr. Francesco Cannizzaro, Scientific Coordinator.
He helps increase the impact of our research — from results to visibility, collaborations, funding, and translation.
Swipe the images + see the rest in the reply 👇
#ScienceCommunication #ResearchManagement
15.01.2026 15:45 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Are you our new speaker(s) for Pint of Science Berlin 2026?
We’re currently “brewing” the program, and we’re looking for speakers both English as well as German speakers are welcome. If you love your topic, we'd love to hear from you.
Reach out directly to me if interested.
#scicomm #outreach
10.01.2026 15:54 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Postdoc + fellowship on your mind?
The Freund Lab is open to hosting postdocs with strong ideas who want to develop an independent project and apply for fellowships (WB, MSCA, EMBO, AvH).
Get in touch: CV + short project sketch → francesco.cannizzaro@fu-berlin.de
#Postdoc #Fellowship #AcademicSky
06.01.2026 11:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our UCSF–FU Berlin online Christmas gathering 🎄
Across time zones and an ocean, we celebrate our collaboration, and reflect on how important it is to stay connected.
Grateful for this team and looking forward to strengthening this relationship further!
#ResearchCollaboration #AcademicPartnerships
17.12.2025 12:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
graphical abstract
New work from our group: a model of MHC-II antigen exchange on hour–day timescales shows that susceptibility to the exchange catalyst HLA-DM is proportional to the peptide–MHC-II off-rate.
Link to the publication:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#AntigenPresentation #MHCII #Immunology
17.12.2025 10:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Interested in doing a research project in molecular and structural biology?
The Freund Lab (Freie Universität Berlin) is always happy to hear from motivated students looking to engage in research projects.
Curious? Reach out and let’s talk!
12.12.2025 13:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great scientific exchange during the October UCSF visit to Berlin
Two days of discussions on SNARE complexes, disease-relevant mutations, and approaches at the interface of structural biology and neuroscience (see attached photo).
@ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social, @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
12.12.2025 13:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
UCSF Visit in Berlin and Joint Seminar
link to the article: www.bcp.fu-berlin.de/en/chemie/bi...
#EinsteinVisitingFellowship #collaboration #neuroscience #structuralbiology
12.12.2025 13:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
UCSF Visit in Berlin and Joint Seminar
www.bcp.fu-berlin.de/en/chemie/bi...
#EinsteinVisitingFellowship #collaboration #neuroscience #structuralbiology
12.12.2025 13:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New initiative at TRR186 📣
As coordinators of the consortium, we’ve launched press releases for outstanding publications to increase visibility and showcase collaborative science — starting with the recent work by @cecclementi.bsky.social and others.
check it out here: 👉 www.trr186.de/en/node/186
12.12.2025 10:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great discussion at this week’s TRR186 Online Seminar 🧬
— a real snapshot of how diverse approaches come together across our consortium.
We were also happy to introduce a new panel format to help connect ideas across projects.
Thanks to all speakers and participants for the open exchange. #DFG
12.12.2025 10:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
retreat
A successful TRR 186 PhD & postdoc retreat in Berlin: 3 days of project updates, posters, workshops on “AI in Science” and publishing, plus time for community building.
Big thanks to the organizers: Tamina Werk, Ana Knez, Ali Lashkari, Yagmur Urem
Details: www.trr186.de/en/node/185
08.12.2025 08:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
MHCII
🧪 Introducing our research: MHCII antigen processing & presentation
We study how HLA-DM, HLA-DO and MHCII polymorphisms shape CD4⁺ T cell epitopes, linking the structural dynamics of peptide loading to immune recognition in infection, autoimmunity and cancer.
🔗 www.bcp.fu-berlin.de/en/chemie/bi...
08.12.2025 08:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Group photo of our research team
Science is never a solo project.
From PhD students to our professor, lab managers, postdocs, staff scientists and scientific coordination: this is the team that makes ideas move from whiteboard to experiment. Check out our new group photo below!
05.12.2025 14:13 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Kicking off the TRR186 Online Seminar series on Thu 13th!
Last Thursday we kicked off the #TRR186 online seminar series with a tour of our latest research: from coarse-grained MD & CD95 activation to membrane translocation, neurotransmitter release, clocks & membrane dynamics. Details: www.trr186.de/en/node/181
17.11.2025 13:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hello Bluesky! 👋
We are the Freund Lab at Freie Universität Berlin. We focus on the mechanisms and molecular logic that govern the molecular interactions of proteins.
Here we’ll share our research highlights, collaborations, and a bit of lab life.
Happy to connect with the community!
17.11.2025 13:17 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Publishing trusted research across science, technology, and medicine. We connect researchers, authors, and institutions through journals, books, conferences, and scholarly events worldwide.
We focus on quantitative #modeling of #material properties and functions, especially in #catalysts and #energy conversion devices.
Based in Berlin Dahlem.
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Associate Professor @ University of Sao Paulo. Structural biologist. Protein crystallographer. Interested in protein-ligand interactions and modeling
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Lead of Cancer Metabolism Lab at @NCI.
Studying lipid metabolism in brain tumors.
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Research evolution & adaptation, immune response & memory, and synthetic biology.
"I hope some day you'll join us, and the world will be as one."
Postdoc in the Merchant Lab | PhD in microbiology from UC Berkeley | systems biology, photosynthesis, microbial ecology, and diurnal cycles
To drive a new era of discovery in disease-oriented science and to mentor tomorrow’s leaders in an inspiring and diverse environment.
