Is was our absolute pleasure to help organise the @eurobic18.bsky.social together with Sylvestre Bonnet @unileiden.bsky.social. Special thanks to @wesleybrowne.bsky.social and everyone from @stratinghinst.bsky.social @rug.nl who contributed to a very successful and stimulating week at #EuroBIC18!
Bratislav Dačević
@hemadzer.bsky.social
🇷🇸 PhD student in radical and photobiocatalysis 💡🧬 @RoelfesGroup.bsky.social University of Groningen 🇳🇱
A fantastic week at @eurobic18.bsky.social in Groningen! It was a great pleasure to present my latest research and also to help behind the scenes as part of the conference support team. This was also a very good opportunity to reconnect with friends, collaborators, and colleagues.
See you at #EuroBIC18 next week in Groningen! I’ll be presenting my latest research on Wednesday morning. Looking forward to a great week of bioinorganic chemistry and catching up with colleagues!
Welcome to the official BS page of the 18th European Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference (EuroBIC 18), taking place in Groningen, the Netherlands 🇳🇱, from July 12–16, 2026. See you next week! Visit eurobic18.eu for the full programme, schedule, travel information, and other practical details.
⏰ Deadline approaching! The 15 March deadline for submitting abstracts for oral communications to EuroBIC18 is fast approaching! We are excited to announce an outstanding lineup of plenary and keynote speakers – check them out on our website: 🌐 eurobic18.eu
Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Netherlands’ Catalysis and Chemistry Conference (NCCC), where I presented my research on photobiocatalytic atroposelective biaryl coupling. I’m excited to share that I was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org EES Catalysis Best Talk Prize!
Season’s greetings from the Roelfes and Mayer groups! 🎉🎄 Warm wishes to our colleagues, collaborators, and friends across the community for a joyful holiday season and an inspiring New Year ahead. ✨🧪
📢📢 New paper out! AI and networks can be used to predict distal mutations in proteins, even in artificial enzymes! Check out the article here ----‐> doi.org/10.1016/j.ij... Thread 1/5 🧵
With #PFAS and other organofluorides wreaking havoc, we set out to engineer natural defluorinases for man-made organofluorides. All credit goes to the amazing @suzannejansen.bsky.social, who has outdone herself in this project! (1/5) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Engineering fluoroacetate dehalogenase by growth-based selections to degrade non-natural organofluorides
The widespread use of organofluorides in modern society has inadvertently led to the bioaccumulation of harmful pollutants, most prominently per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS). In princi...
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#RepArtZymes pre-conference in Basel also brought together some of our old and current group members. @zhizhou1619.bsky.social @reubenlg.bsky.social
📢📢📢 PhD Opportunity! Join our research group at RUG! We're seeking a motivated PhD student for a project on biocatalytic cascade processes combining natural and designer enzymes, supported by machine learning. Click below to learn more — and feel free to share! sites.google.com/rug.nl/roelf...
Roelfes group - Open Positions
PhD position on Hybrid biocatalytic cascades aided by Machine learning (1.0 FTE)
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Had an amazing week at the MetRaZymes @metrazymes.bsky.social Winter School in Hirschegg, Austria! It was a pleasure to learn, share, and connect with fellow researchers in our doctoral network. We organized and attended insightful lectures and workshops on ⬇️🧵
Our latest publication is out in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! We generated and engineered a novel artificial metalloenzyme for the enantioselective synthesis of a panel of γ-nitro-carbonyl compounds on a preparative scale.
Check out our latest preprint, in which we demonstrate the first example of using noncanonical 3-aminotyrosine (aY) as a catalytic residue for iminium activation in a designer enzyme! Thread ⬇️
Season's greetings from Roelfes and Mayer groups! Wishing our colleagues, collaborators, and the entire community a joyful holiday season and a prosperous New Year ahead! 🎉🎄✨🧪
OrgChem Starter pack has reached the 150 limit, so we started the sequel OrgChem2 go.bsky.app/GwH8tnF
Our OrgChem Starter Pack is growing with already 122 entries, but we will start a volume 2 if we go over the 150 limit! go.bsky.app/NSEFPFJ
We are thrilled to share our new noble-metal enzyme design approach. We used the in-vivo incorporation of a noble-metal-binding ligand for ArM design to bridge the versatility of noble metals with the catalytic power of enzymes. Thread ⬇️
We are delighted to introduce our new Boron Designer Enzyme for the kinetic resolution of α-hydroxythioesters. For this activity, the noncanonical amino acid and a natural lysine residue have to work together to form a Hybrid Catalytic Dyad!