The Biophysical Chemistry Workgroup

3D-Tracking

mRNA-Export

Our work group is devoted to the analysis of molecular dynamics in the context of biological or biomimetical systems; our core area is the analysis of molecular kinetics within supra-molecular complexes on the single molecule level.

We employ state-of-the-art light microscopy techniques like confocal scanning microscopy and single-molecule microscopy using different illumnation techniques.

Our labs are equipped for the preparatory biochemistry and all standard protocols from cell to molecular biology.

A further key aspect of our work is the development of new or the improvement of existing light microscopic methods; current emphases are light sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM), confocal LSFM and 3D particle tracking.

Ter-Meer Prize 2022 for Dr. Jan Ruland


(Bildrechte UGB/B.Frommann)	Unser ehemaliger Doktorand und aktueller PostDoc Dr. Jan Ruland ist der Preisträger des ter-Meer-Preises 2022! Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Jan!

Die Geheimrat Dr.-Edmund-ter-Meer-Stiftung wurde als unselbständige Stiftung der Universitätsgesellschaft Bonn begründet. Anlass waren der 75. Geburtstag des Geheimrates Dr.-Edmund-ter-Meer, das 50-jährige Bestehen der von ihm in Uerdingen gegründeten Anilin-Farbenfabrik (der heutigen BAYER AG, Werk Uerdingen) sowie sein 50-jähriges Dienstjubiläum. Der Geheimrat Dr.-Edmund-ter-Meer Preis ist mit 2.000 Euro dotiert und wird jährlich für die beste Doktorarbeit der Chemischen Institute der Universität Bonn verliehen. Die Preisverleihung findet seit 2016 im Rahmen der Wintersoiree der UGB statt.


Peyer-Imhoff Prize 2022 for Annika Krüger
		It is our great pleasure to announce that our PhD student Annika Krüger received the Sigrid Peyerimhoff-Preis 2022! She received the price for her outstanding MSc-work with the title "Investigation of the antimicrobial mode of action of Teixobactin on biomimetic membrane model systems". Congratulations to Annika, great job! (Video of the celebration)
About the Award: In 2019, emeritus chemist Sigrid Peyerimhoff (on the left in the upper image) set up an endowment fund under the umbrella of the University Bonn Foundation. The aim of the foundation is to promote the field of chemistry in science and research at the University of Bonn. To fulfil this purpose, a so-called consumption fund has been set up, which annually awards the Sigrid Peyerimhoff Sponsorship Prize – in the amount of 2,000 euros for an outstanding master's thesis of a student in chemistry and - as well as the Sigrid Peyerimhoff Research Award - in the amount of 3,000 euros to a young scientist for an excellent publication (for example, dissertation, habilitation thesis, postdoctoral thesis) in the field of physical and theoretical chemistry. (Image © Susanne Lonski)

Peyer-Imhoff Prize 2022 for Annika Krüger

It is our great pleasure to announce that our PhD student Annika Krüger received the Sigrid Peyerimhoff-Preis 2022!

She received the price for her outstanding MSc-work with the title "Investigation of the antimicrobial mode of action of Teixobactin on biomimetic membrane model systems".

Congratulations to Annika, great job!

(Video of the celebration)

About the Award:
In 2019, emeritus chemist Sigrid Peyerimhoff (on the left in the upper image) set up an endowment fund under the umbrella of the University Bonn Foundation. The aim of the foundation is to promote the field of chemistry in science and research at the University of Bonn. To fulfil this purpose, a so-called consumption fund has been set up, which annually awards the Sigrid Peyerimhoff Sponsorship Prize – in the amount of 2,000 euros for an outstanding master's thesis of a student in chemistry and - as well as the Sigrid Peyerimhoff Research Award - in the amount of 3,000 euros to a young scientist for an excellent publication (for example, dissertation, habilitation thesis, postdoctoral thesis) in the field of physical and theoretical chemistry.

(Image © Susanne Lonski)

Recent Publications:

Press release August 4th, 2022:

Lastenaufzug hilft Bakterien, eine Tarnkappe zu bauen: Bakterieller Membrantransporter unterstützt Krankheitserreger, sich vor dem Immunsystem zu verstecken

Der Transport von Substanzen über die Membran in die Zelle ist an spezifische Membrantransportproteine gebunden. Forschern des Universitätsklinikums Bonn (UKB) und der Universität Bonn ist es nun in Zusammenarbeit mit einem internationalen Team gelungen, die molekulare Struktur einer ganz neuen Klasse von solchen Membrantransportern aufzuklären. Beteiligt waren neben den Bonner Wissenschaftlern auch Forscher der Universität York. Die Studie ist jetzt im Fachmagazin Nature Communications erschienen.

[Vollständige Presseerklärung]

Press release Okt 27, 2021

Researchers film fundamental life process:	Study by the University of Bonn shows how the machines that build proteins are transported out of the nucleus

Image © Dr. Jan Ruland, AG Kubitscheck / University of Bonn
All proteins in a cell are assembled by complicated molecular machines. The precursors of these ribosomes are produced in the cell nucleus and then enter the cell through the so-called nuclear pores. Researchers at the University of Bonn and ETH Zurich have now filmed this fundamental process in living cells for the first time. Their experiments improve the understanding of how ribosomes are created. The study is published in the journal Nature Communications.
[Video from the publication]	[Pressemitteilung]	[Press release]

Press release Mar 20, 2020
The mode of action of daptomycin :	Research group of the University of Bonn solves a 30-year-old puzzle
	One of the last arrows in the quiver in the fight against dangerous bacteria is the reserve antibiotic daptomycin. It is used primarily when conventional drugs fail due to resistant bacteria. Although the antibiotic was developed around 30 years ago, its exact mode of action was previously unclear. Scientists at the University of Bonn have now deciphered the puzzle: Daptomycin blocks the integration of important building blocks into the cell wall of the pathogens, thereby killing the bacteria. The results have now been published in the journal "Nature Communications".
Bild © Fabian Grein	[Pressemitteilung] [Press release]

Addendum:

The editors at Nature Communications have put together an Editors’ Highlights webpage of recent research on Therapeutics
and one of the editors, Sonja Schmid, has chosen to feature our article there.

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The Biophysical Chemistry Workgroup

Ter-Meer Prize 2022 for Dr. Jan Ruland

Peyer-Imhoff Prize 2022 for Annika Krüger

Lastenaufzug hilft Bakterien, eine Tarnkappe zu bauen: Bakterieller Membrantransporter unterstützt Krankheitserreger, sich vor dem Immunsystem zu verstecken

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