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Bioinorganic Chemistry Group at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

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@fau.de campus in snow — winter wonderland.
Quiet paths, soft light, everything slowed down. ❄️

26.01.2026 19:25 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Off to the synchrotron 🚀 Mara guiding our awesome students Samira and Yueheng through high-resolution structure solving. @fau.de #crystallography #desy #science

20.01.2026 18:19 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Artemis 2 - Rollout der Rakete soll morgen (17. Jan.) 13 Uhr MEZ beginnen. Zur Liveübertragung bitte ausreichend Popcorn bereithalten! Denn der riesige Crawler wird die Rakete mit einem Tempo von 1,6 km/h zum Startplatz befördern, sodass es Stunden dauern dürfte. www.nasa.gov/news-release...

16.01.2026 05:39 — 👍 149    🔁 17    💬 5    📌 0
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The IUCr 27th Congress and General Assembly will be held in Calgary, Canada, from August 11th-18th, 2026 - It's not too early to start planning - Learn more and sign up to express your interest -> zurl.co/FP2ho We'll be there!

12.01.2026 16:00 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Registration and abstract submission is open for eurobic18.eu. Hopefully we see all of you (bio)inorganic chemists in Groningen - the coolest place to be in Europe this summer (and probably also a bit wet but fantastic speakers!).

08.01.2026 07:48 — 👍 8    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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💥🔥 LATE POST BUT HUGE NEWS: WE HAVE A FRESHLY MINTED PhD!!! Bianca defended her dissertation in Düsseldorf two weeks ago. Congratulations, Dr. Axinte! @hhu.de

11.12.2025 18:32 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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🎄✨ Inorganic Chemistry Institute Christmas Celebration! ✨🎄
A wonderful evening with the entire institute — great conversations, good food, and festive spirit all around. Grateful for an amazing team and another year of discovery, experiments, and collaboration.

Happy holidays to everyone! 🔬❄️💙

10.12.2025 06:30 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Analyzing the complex chemistry of Glühwein with the lab — conclusions: excellent aroma profile, strong bonding effects. 😉🍷✨

03.12.2025 21:21 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Come to Potsdam!

29.11.2025 19:52 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Postdoc (m/f/d) in Endosymbiosis Research

📢Postdoc position available!🧪🧫🧬
Our group is seeking a motivated researcher to investigate the molecular mechanisms driving host–endosymbiont interactions.
Full details & application: karriere.hhu.de//index.php?a....
Please help us get the word out!

25.11.2025 11:24 — 👍 24    🔁 35    💬 0    📌 0
Children’s book in front of plant. Book looks like a composition notebook with red title „X-ray crystallography adventures!“ subtitle: cat & elephant‘s sugar crystal mystery. Two cartoons of a cat in a lab coat and an elephant in baking gear are on bottom right.

Children’s book in front of plant. Book looks like a composition notebook with red title „X-ray crystallography adventures!“ subtitle: cat & elephant‘s sugar crystal mystery. Two cartoons of a cat in a lab coat and an elephant in baking gear are on bottom right.

Thrilled to announce publication of the crystallography children’s book illustrated by undergraduate Justine Wong!

You can buy it here for $15: meitneriumpress.com

50% of profits will support undergrad education at the Cal Poly Pomona Crystallography Co-op.

#chemsky #chemchat

17.11.2025 16:26 — 👍 31    🔁 20    💬 3    📌 2
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Metalloproteins make up ~30% of the PDB archive.
To ensure FAIR data practices, wwPDB is remediating existing polyatomic metal-containing entries and CCDs — improving their chemical and coordination descriptions for better findability and reuse.

28.10.2025 14:43 — 👍 15    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
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New partnership between African Academy of Sciences and the European Research Council to boost scientific collaboration A new initiative to encourage collaboration between leading African researchers and European Research Council (ERC) grantees was signed by the European Commission and the African Academy of Sciences (...

A new partnership between the ERC and the African Academy of Sciences signed today opens opportunities for top African researchers and ERC grantees.

🇪🇺🌍👉 bit.ly/3WXAka1

23.10.2025 15:12 — 👍 26    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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Register Now for Webinar: Exploring the Workhorses of Biotechnology On November 6, learn how to use RCSB.org to analyze plastic-degrading enzymes

Register Now for Webinar: Exploring the Workhorses of Biotechnology
On November 6, learn how to use RCSB PDB tools to analyze plastic-degrading enzymes

23.10.2025 17:05 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Shout-out and kudos to the organizers, other speakers, advisory committee, and all the participants. See you next year! @spanlabfau.bsky.social @ctfm-lab.bsky.social @fau.de @chemdiva.bsky.social (3/3)

10.10.2025 18:26 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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PDB101: Register Now for Webinar: Exploring the Workhorses of Biotechnology PDB-101: Training, Outreach, and Education portal of RCSB PDB

Register Now for Webinar: Exploring the Workhorses of Biotechnology
On November 6, learn how to use RCSB PDB to analyze plastic-degrading enzymes

02.10.2025 16:25 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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My student Mara Hebeis wowed the crowd at HEC27 🚀 with stunning HDAC6–inhibitor structures, opening new doors for tackling therapy-resistant leukemia. @fau.de

02.10.2025 13:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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At HEC27, my student Reyana Ganguly gave a fantastic talk on spectroscopy & crystallography insights into how electron transfer pathways drive alkane monooxygenases. Brilliant work!🌟

02.10.2025 06:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@marahebeis.bsky.social @konstantinbikbaev.bsky.social @fau.de

28.09.2025 18:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Three days in Halberstadt for HEC27 🌍🧬 Inspiring international science + proud moments as three of my PhD students gave fantastic talks! 👏 #HEC27 #Biocrystallography

28.09.2025 15:15 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hier kann man sich noch anmelden für unsere Experimentalvorlesung mit JJ
Chemistry: form.hhu.de/institut-fue... 🙂

01.09.2025 15:50 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Wer heute Langeweile hat und mehr über Lebensmittelchemie wissen möchte kann die neue Folge des Podcasts des CVUA Stuttgart hören, wo ich über das Berufsbild und Studium spreche (neben anderen Dingen!)

apfel-vogel-stories.podigee.io/23-neue-epis...

06.09.2025 10:12 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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How did life get multicellular? Five simple organisms could have the answer Single-celled species that often stick together in colonies have researchers rethinking the origin of animals.

Single-celled species that often stick together in colonies have researchers rethinking the origin of animals. A feature in Nature explores how five organisms are helping researchers define how life became multicellular. 🧪

30.08.2025 16:26 — 👍 49    🔁 21    💬 1    📌 0
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The Radical S-Adenosyl-l-methionine Enzyme HydE Forms an Fe(I)Fe(I) Dimer En Route to the [FeFe] Hydrogenase H-Cluster [FeFe] hydrogenases are highly efficient metalloenzymes that catalyze hydrogen conversion via a sophisticated active site cofactor known as the H-cluster. Biosynthesis of its [2Fe]H subcluster, which ...

is the dimer core of the H-cluster of FeFe hydrogenase formed by rSAM chemistry in HydE?

pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

30.08.2025 17:27 — 👍 17    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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Looking forward to an exciting seminar with Leo Kurian @kurianlab.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social on Sept 11. He will speak about
#RNA regulatory principles of engineering fate in living systems
More info: www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en
Everyone's welcome! @sfb1348.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de

28.08.2025 14:47 — 👍 9    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Research Associate in Molecular Modelling of RNAs

#Postdoc opportunity to join my group at KCL to work on RNA modelling for 2 years (+1 year pot. extension). #CompChem #ChemPostDoc #PostDocJobs #RNA Apply by 17th September!

www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/123725-...

28.08.2025 09:32 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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PhD Candidate in Chemical Biology and Immuno-metabolism The Faculty of Science Leiden, the Leiden Institute of Chemistry and Leiden Institute of Biology are looking for a PhD candidate to pursue research on the development of drugs modulating immunometabolism.   Immune dysregulation contributes to many human diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular…

Exciting #PhD Opportunity in #DrugDiscovery at Leiden University!

The group of @mads-chem.bsky.social of the @led3hub.bsky.social is thrilled to announce a new PhD position at the intersection of #ChemicalBiology and #Immunology.

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
#ChemBio #ChemSky

23.08.2025 13:36 — 👍 2    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Congrats George @cutsail-lab.bsky.social ! Hope to see you in Munich soon

13.08.2025 17:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ich hoffe, dass es im Herbst klappt!

08.08.2025 20:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Viele Grüße in die alte Heimat!

06.08.2025 18:21 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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