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Come join the new Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Design as a group leader Cool science in a great scientific environment in wonderful and very family friendly Copenhagen There are two positions that can either be at TT assistant or associate prof level employment.ku.dk/tenure-track...

Excited to share our latest with @birtehoecker.bsky.social: CANVAS, a de novo enzyme design strategy that builds active sites by adding tailored lids to minimal TIM barrels. Several designs reached kcat values of 13–26 s⁻¹, on par with the median natural enzyme. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Registration open! Join us next April on the Belgian coast 🇧🇪 for the FEBS Advanced Course “Generative AI for Protein Engineering” 🧬 A unique, hands-on week dedicated to thinking and designing like a protein engineer. 👉 Info & apply: …proteinengineering2026.febsevents.org #ProteinDesign

📣New CRC 1357 Publication: The Key to Enzymatic Degradation of Polybutylene Terephthalate (PBT): Influence of Semicrystalline Properties on Degradation doi.org/10.1002/cssc...

📣New CRC 1357 Publication: Congrats to Onur Turak, Protein Design @birtehoecker.bsky.social, & co-authors and their new article: A third type of PETase from the marine Halopseudomonas lineage Structure & sequence features of type III PETases reported! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

In collaboration with @birtehoecker.bsky.social, we’ve unlocked enzymatic activity in a minimal de novo TIM barrel by designing a custom lid for catalysis! 🧵👇 #ProteinDesign #EnzymeDesign Customizing the Structure of a Minimal TIM Barrel to Create a De Novo Enzyme www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Early bird registration for 𝐄𝐔 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 is open! 🎉🎉🎉 Come join us for three days of protein design fun! (October 20-22, 2025) Direct registration link: pretix.eu/SBD/RCon2025/ Website: europeanrosettacon.org We are looking forward to seeing you! Please share this far and wide:)

We proudly present our GBM-Master awardee 2025: Emma Düthorn. Emma did her thesis in the Mustroph lab and finished 1st in the Bayreuth MSc in Biochemistry & Mol.Biology. We also enjoyed a great GBM lecture by Clara Schroeder (Uni Leipzig) and the Bayreuth JuniorGBM summer party! @gbmev.bsky.social

Two great weeks at the beautiful UNSW campus in Sydney come to an end - lots of fun discussions with the Curmi lab about protein motors and how to design artificial ones!

Great talks & discussions at the 76th Mosbacher Kolloquium last week - in particular fantastic Lynen Lecture by Tanja Kortemme @kortemmelab.bsky.social and Eduard-Buchner award lecture by Dorothee Kern! And great to see so many old and new friends. @gbmev.bsky.social

Meet our three poster prize winners that were awarded by GBM president Harald Kolmar: Benedict Wolf (Heidelberg), Julian Beck (Bayreuth) and Lisa Schmidt (Berlin). Thank you @febsopenbio.bsky.social for supporting us!

Congratulations Dorothee! Laudatio given by Janosch Hennig, co-organizer of the meeting.

Feodor-Lynen-Lecture delivered by Tanja Kortemme (UCSF) at the Mosbacher Kolloquium. Congratulations!

Join us for the #GBMLunch 📅 February 12 🕛 12:00 PM Lukas Milles @lfmilles.bsky.social from the Gene Center of LMU & MPI of Biochemistry, Munich will be presenting on: “Reconstructing biological function with de novo protein design” The session will be chaired by @birtehoecker.bsky.social

📣 Save the dates 📅 We are organizing a Benzon Symposium on "Protein structure prediction and design" with what I think is an amazing set of speakers Meeting will take place in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 on Sept. 1–4, 2025, and abstract submission will open in March (benzon-foundation.dk/benzon-sympo...)

Registration is open: 76. Mosbacher Kolloquium "AI-driven (r)evolution in structural biology & protein design" from 20.03.2025–22.03.2025 mosbacher-kolloquium.org Early registration: January 31, 2025 Poster abstracts: January 31, 2025 Please RT!