Welcome to the
Biostructural Interactions Group!
We study the molecular mechanisms and motions of (membrane) proteins from microorganism to man
Lab News!
07/2025 Vanessa joins us from Leipzig for her Master thesis and Emily from College of William & Mary in Virginia, USA for a summer internship! Welcome!
04/2025 - Welcome Julia to the group!
12/2024 - Jakob joins us for his master thesis! Willkommen!
11/2024 - Melanie joins us for her master thesis on trypanosomes, welcome!
09/2024 - Iryna submits her MSc thesis and Luca joins us for an internship from Tübingen! Congratulations and welcome!
06/2024 - We welcome Jan as a new postdoc!
09/2023 - Iryna joins us as a MSc student from Lisbon! Welcome!
08/2023 - A new Dr in the house! Congratulations Kerstin on a fantastic job bringing TRP channels and flaviviruses together in a super multidisciplinary PhD!
New Publications!
New paper with the Stallforth group now out in Cell! A chemical radar that allows bacteria to detect and kill their predators! read more here!
Victor's new paper on the interaction of fluorinated pipecolic acid inhibitors with microbial virulence factors has just been accepted in J. Med. Chem.!
Kerstin's new paper with the Hildt lab bridging our passion for TRP channels and Neglected Tropical Diseases out now: Zika virus replication is impaired by a selective agonist of the TRPML2 ion channel.
10.1016/j.antiviral.2024.105940
New paper with the Köhnke and Hertweck labs accepted in Angewandte Chemie! We investigated the structural dynamics of the rhizoxin PKS with an integrated structural biology approach and find a new ACP "parking position" on the core module! Congratulations Maria, Mai and all co-authors!
Awards and Recognitions!
We are part of the newly funded Carl Zeiss Foundation project Synthera! (https://www.carl-zeiss-stiftung.de/en/topics-projects/project-overview/detail/synthetic-therapeutic-microbes-for-tailored-antimicrobial-therapies-synthera)
Marta Bogacz wins poster award at the Gordon Research Conference 'Thiol-Based Redox Regulation and Signaling', Barcelona, Spain
Sreelakshmi P.V. receives a DAAD PhD Fellowship for her work on membrane receptor dynamics!
Kerstin Thriene (Microplastic subgroup) wins the best talk award at the EUROBIOFILMS conference in Copenhague!
Ute and Ryan Hibbs (UCSD) are elected chairs for the GRC 'Ligand Recognition and Molecular Gating'
Eric wins best talk award at the German Parasitology Society's Drug Design & Development meeting in Würzburg!
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Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences
Institute of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry
Cluster of Excellence "Balance of the Microverse"
Beutenberg Labs:
Bioinstrumentezentrum (BIZ)
Modul 2, Ebene 4
Winzerlaer Str. 2, 07745 Jena
IOMC Labs:
K018/19
Humboldtstrasse 10, 07743 Jena