Merry Christmas!!! We wish you all a Merry Christmas, restful holidays, and all the best for the year 2026!

It was a colorful hour full of explosions, 💥 shining colors 🌈 and eye-opening facts about light. Many thanks to Uwe Karst, Michael Holtkamp, and the whole lecture-team for the spectacular #Christmaslecture “Let there be light!”. Video: Linus Peikenkamp @uni-muenster.de. Music by pixabay radio.

Time to celebrate🎉: The @dfg.de has announced that Armido Studer receives the "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize" for his pioneering research in Organic #RadicalChemistry. We congratulate him for this great acknowledgement of his outstanding research activities at @uni-muenster.de!

At the same event, Julia Soika received the Rectory Prize for her excellent doctoral dissertation at our faculty. One of the cutting-edge topics in her thesis was the application of a well-known versatile thermal Aluminum-Salen catalyst in #photocatalysis. Congratulations!

At the traditional annual "summa cum laude"-reception, the Rectorate of the @uni-muenster.de has honored 18 PhD-graduates from our faculty for their outstanding theses in #Chemistry, #FoodChemistry and #Pharmacy, graded with the best possible result. Congratulations for your great achievement!

Great news for our young researchers: The international research training group (IRTG) "Functional pi-Systems: Activation, Interaction and Application (pi-Sys)" @uni-muenster.de is funded by the DFG for additional 4.5 years. Many thanks to the whole IRTG-team for their long-standing dedication!

Professional Analyses by high school students: This week, more than 100 chemistry enthusiasts from 6 regional schools are visiting the Karst-Labs. At the annual event "LK Lab Instrumental Analysis" they take up the lab coat and use our state-of-the-art instruments to solve everyday analytical tasks.

Join us for our annual christmas lecture on December 16th at 5 pm in the lecture hall C1. This year, Uwe Karst and Michael Holtkamp explore the fascination of light under the topic "Let there be light!". How do we perceive it? How can we make colorful light? And how does chemistry come into play?

Open doors for future chemists, food chemists, and pharmacists: More than 900 guests explored our labs and lecture halls at the yearly University day @uni-muenster.de . Photos: Valerie Hollwedel, Hauke Engler

Congratulations to Frank Glorius (@gloriusfrank.bsky.social) and Wolfgang Zeier who made it onto the Clarivate "Highly Cited Researchers 2025" list. @uni-muenster.de @gloriusgroup.bsky.social roup.bsky.social Photos by Lukas Walbaum (left) and Peter Dziemba (right).

Congratulations to Dmitrii Kalinin, Verena Spiegler, and Diddo Diddens who officially completed their habilitation procedures @uni-muenster.de this month. Thank you for your inspiring inaugural lectures! (Photos: Uni MS - Hauke Engler, Alina Siutkina)

Great project on the combined use of light- and redox-switching in hydrogels is now published in Nat. Commun. We can generate all types of stable redox patterns and actuation under ambient conditions using light for spatio-temporal control!

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Check out the most colourful work of my PhD, available now from Nature Communications! (It's open access, you have no excuse not to read) Thank you to my collaborators, among others @robertheinchem.bsky.social @feringalab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reminder: Die Uni Münster lädt alle Interessierten am 27.10. zum Tag der Lehre ein! Unter dem Titel „Die Lehre(n) der Zukunft: Gemeinsam forschend lernen und lehren“ geht es um aktuelle und innovative Lehrkonzepte. Wer nicht vor Ort dabei sein kann, kann die Veranstaltung im Live-Stream verfolgen.

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Die Universität Münster lädt alle Interessierten am 27. Oktober zu einem Tag der Lehre 2025 ein. Unter dem Titel „Die Lehre(n) der Zukunft: Gemeinsam forschend lernen und lehren“ können sich alle Inte...

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Time to celebrate: on friday, our latest 30 PhD graduates in #chemistry and #pharmacy were awarded the highest academic degree during a festivity in the "Schloss" @uni-muenster.de. We congratulate everyone who recently achieved this important stepstone in their career! Photo: Uni MS - Simone Krause

Wo sonst Fußball-Zweitligist Preußen Münster @preussen06.bsky.social kickt, hieß die Universität heute (8. Oktober) ihre Erstsemester willkommen. Rektor Prof. Dr. Johannes Wessels und Bürgermeisterin Angela Stähler begrüßten mehr als 4.000 „Erstis“.

Universität Münster begrüßt neue Studierende im Preußenstadion

Wo sonst Fußball-Zweitligist Preußen Münster kickt, hieß die Universität heute (8. Oktober) ihre Erstsemester willkommen. Rektor Prof. Dr. Johannes Wessels und Bürgermeisterin Angela Stähler begrüßten...

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The Institute for Chemical Education @uni-muenster.de welcomed 32 children aged 6 or above and their parents with playful chemical experiments. According to this year’s motto “playing time” well known board games were explored from a new perspective.

Here, we present MDPath, a novel tool to study allosteric communication pathways within protein structures: Unraveling Allosteric Communication Paths of Drug Targets through Molecular Dynamics Simulations. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

MDPath: Unraveling Allosteric Communication Paths of Drug Targets through Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Understanding allosteric communication in proteins remains a critical challenge for structure-based, rational drug design. We present MDPath, a Python toolkit for analyzing allosteric communication paths in molecular dynamics simulations using NMI-based analysis. We demonstrate MDPath’s ability to identify both established and novel GPCR allosteric mechanisms using the β2-adrenoceptor, adenosine A2A receptor, and μ-opioid receptor as model systems. The toolkit reveals ligand-specific allosteric effects in β2-adrenoceptor and MOR, illustrating how protein–ligand interactions drive conformational changes. Analysis of ABL1 kinase in complex with allosteric and orthosteric inhibitors demonstrates the broader applicability of the approach. Ultimately, MDPath provides an open-source framework for mapping allosteric communication within proteins, advancing structure-based drug design (https://github.com/wolberlab/mdpath).

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Die Zukunft der Batterieproduktion nimmt weiter Fahrt auf. Am 1. Oktober wurde in Münster der Grundstein für den 2. Bauabschnitt der Forschungsfertigung Batteriezelle (FFB Fab) @fraunhofer.bsky.social gelegt. Die Uni Münster ist mit dem Batterieforschungszentrum MEET beteiligt. #Batterien

Zukunftsstandort Nordrhein-Westfalen: Grundsteinlegung für Batterieproduktion der nächsten Generation in Münster

Die Zukunft der Batterieproduktion nimmt weiter Fahrt auf –  mitten in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Wirtschafts- und Klimaschutzministerin Mona Neubaur, Wissenschaftsministerin Ina Brandes und Dr. Rolf-Dieter...

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We welcome all new students at our faculty. Have a good start!!!

Congratulations to Thomas Schmidt @pharmacampus-ms.bsky.social on receiving the Innovation Award of the "Gesellschaft für Phytotherapie e. V." for his outstanding research @uni-muenster.de on using topical arnica tincture to treat cutaneous leishmaniasis. Publication: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Welcoming the next chemical talents: on our interactive information day, more than 80 high school students explored our faculty. At our practical lab stations, they discussed chemistry with our researchers and instructors and got informed about the studying opportunities.

Congratulations: the Institute of Business Administration at the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy @uni-muenster.de has celebrated its 25th anniversary. We thank the institute for its numerous networking activities and its longstanding contribution to the research and the visibility of the faculty.

The faculty congratulates junior group leader Line Muradi from @uni-muenster.de for receiving the @L'Oréal / @unesco.org "For Women in Science"-Award for her outstanding research in using water as an environmentally benign solvent for photochemistry. Photo: Getty Images for L’Oréal.

Der Hochschultag Münster mit Vorträgen und Schnuppervorlesungen für Studieninteressierte findet am 13. November statt. Anmeldungen sind ab sofort möglich! www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.ph...

Jetzt anmelden: Hochschultag Münster am 13. November

Vorträge und Schnuppervorlesungen, Infostände und Beratungsangebote: Am 13. November findet der nächste Hochschultag in Münster statt. Anmeldungen sind ab sofort möglich.

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An international team of scientists including Jun.-Prof. Marcel Rey from @uni-muenster.de has developed laser driven microgears. For the first time, movable gears smaller than a hair's diameter were presented, breaking the former threshold of 0.1 mm. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Das Dekanat des Fachbereichs Chemie und Pharmazie sucht Verstärkung in der Fachbereichsverwaltung. Bewerbungen sind noch bis zum 30.09. möglich. Die vollständige Ausschreibung finden Sie unter www.uni-muenster.de/CPJobs/stell....

After an interactive workshop our student's team is well prepared and highly motivated for their mentoring activities. Now they are looking forward to helping the new students in Chemistry, Food Chemistry and Chemistry Education during their first semester.

Today marked a great start of the second funding period of the SPP 2363 with the first day of our Kick-off meeting at the @leopoldina.org in Halle. Special thanks to Esther Heid for an truly inspiring talk connecting molecular representation, model architectures and reactivity! 🧪💻

A team led by Prof Simon Lux has analysed the future energy demand associated with the EU's goal of strengthening local battery supply chains in Europe. According to their projections, Europe will have to generate significant amounts of energy for local battery cell production: uni.ms/3o7eg #battery

Researchers at the University of Münster analyse future European energy demand for battery cell production

A team led by Prof Simon Lux has analysed the future energy demand associated with the EU's goal of strengthening local battery supply chains in Europe. According to their projections, Europe will hav...

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Am 29. September veranstaltet das MExLab Chemie @chempharmms.bsky.social einen Studieninformationstag (ab 16 Jahre) und eine Lehrkräftefortbildung – für beide Veranstaltungen kann man sich noch bis zum 19. September anmelden. #Chemie #Didaktik Alle Infos: www.uni-muenster.de/Chemie.MExLab/