Said a final goodbye to my bench at the MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology today. What a feeling @mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social

Very happy to share my first preprint from my PhD 🎉 doi.org/10.64898/202... We develop an αHL-based framework to engineer and quantify selective diffusion across synthetic membranes using controlled nanopore chemistry. 1/7

Really enjoyed the 77th #MosbacherKolloquium ! Thanks to the organizers @gbmev.bsky.social for putting together such an amazing program and for giving me the chance to present my poster. To quote André Nadler: Membranes are great, science is great, and let's continue making discoveries! ;)

Just realized, that I have never posted my artwork on bluesky! So here are some of my favorite pieces I got to create during my PhD for different projects from @mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social What a journey it has been :)

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Very excited to finally share my PhD paper, about advancing #chloroplast #synbio through high-throughput plastome engineering of #Chlamydomonas. Huge thanks to the whole team! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A modular high-throughput approach for advancing synthetic biology in the chloroplast of Chlamydomonas - Nature Plants

This study reports a modular-cloning-based platform for high-throughput chloroplast engineering in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii that allows large-scale characterization of genetic parts and prototyping o...

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Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology@mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Turbo platform for plant research 🚀🪴 Extreme weather events due to #climatechange reduce crop yields. @reneinckemann.bsky.social & team led by Tobias Erb @synmikro.bsky.social has now developed a microalgae platform for fast and efficient tests of chloroplast gene variants s.gwdg.de/hznfNe

With this, the last bit of my PhD at @embl.org is finally out! We developed salad (sparse all-atom denoising), a family of blazing fast protein structure diffusion models. Paper: nature.com/articles/s42256-… Code: github.com/mjendrusch/salad Data: zenodo.org/records/14711580 1/🧵

EMBL@embl.org · 11mo ago

‘Salad’ – a new AI model from EMBL scientists – offers major improvements in synthetic protein design. Salad is significantly faster than comparable methods, and designing proteins that don't exist in nature can have applications in many scientific fields. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Just submitted my PhD thesis. Feeling kinda empty now...

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Modular Engineering of Thermo-Responsive Allosteric Proteins

Thermogenetics enables non-invasive spatiotemporal control over protein activity in living cells and tissues, yet its applications have largely been restricted to transcriptional regulation and membra...

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Excited to share a main project from my PhD, out now in @naturecomms.bsky.social! 📝 We've designed and brought to life the “CORE cycle” – a new-to-nature pathway that provides a novel route for biological CO2 capture 🦠🌱 nature.com/articles/s41... Take a look! Thread below... 🧵

Thrilled to have been part of the 76th Mosbacher Kolloquium! Huge thanks to @gbmev.bsky.social for organizing such an engaging conference! @anastasiagtz.bsky.so and I were excited to share our insights on differential transport across membranes, and we're truly honored to receive the poster award!

Really happy to share that our work on constructing six glyoxylate / glycolate sensors covering a three order of magnitude concentration range is out now in Nature Communications ! 🔥 Read below to see how we developed the sensors and what they are good for 🥳. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Computation-aided designs enable developing auxotrophic metabolic sensors for wide-range glyoxylate and glycolate detection - Nature Communications

Auxotrophic metabolic sensors (AMS) are vital for bioengineering but are often time-consuming to develop. Here, the authors present a workflow for designing versatile AMS, demonstrating their use for ...

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Super excited to see my main PhD project finally out in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41.... We show for the first time that a synthetic and engineered pathway can indeed exceed nature at one-carbon fixation.

One-carbon fixation via the synthetic reductive glycine pathway exceeds yield of the Calvin cycle - Nature Microbiology

An engineered one-carbon-fixation pathway increases biomass yields of Cupriavidus necator compared with the Calvin cycle and can support future, sustainable bio-based production.

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New protein ML preprint from my PhD project. We describe salad (sparse all-atom denoising), a family of efficient protein structure diffusion models and show that it works well on a bunch of protein design task previously described in the literature. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/N)