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Those who like to continue following our work, we are now also on
@fuhrmannlab
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🦠🔬 Do you have a degree in in Pharmacy, Biotechnology, Microbiology, or related and would like to pursue PhD work? We have an opening 👇 to work on our
@ERC_Research
Starting Grant
@UniFAU
We are looking for a motivated candidate to join our group by October 2024 (Please RT!)
I am very thrilled to be appointed Professor for Pharmaceutical Biology
@UniFAU
today! I look very much forward to be part of the Department of Biology. Thanks also to
@Helmholtz_HIPS
for the support in the past years. A new challenge starts now!
@Hornegger
@FAU_Germany
@GSEV10
Very pleased to receive my appointment as Associated Junior Professor at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of
@Saar_Uni
! Thanks for the opportunity to strengthen my connection with the university and
@Helmholtz_HIPS
As guest editor at
@ADDReditors
you not only get the great opportunity to contribute to the issue, but they also send you a printed journal version! (not available commercially 🤭) It feels pretty good to hold it in my hands! Thanks to
@H_Ghandehari
and CMLehr
@Helmholtz_HIPS
Thanks to
@JulieNguyenLab
and
@DPMP_UNC
for hosting me during my
#GalenusFoundation
visiting professorship and for the opportunity to present our research today! If I didn't already have a wonderful home institution
@UniFAU
I would definitely move here 😉
Are you a young investigator and keen to contribute to our "New frontiers in biomedical engineering" themed issue in
@JCRnEDITORS
? Check out the submission call below 👇and make sure to apply! Please RT 🔬⚕️
I am co-editing this with
@MaiselLab
@SSnipstad
and Eiji Yuba 👏🧬
Every time a PhD student from our group
@UniFAU
finishes its viva examination, they decorate a little wooden cube to have a memory of the different lab members and times. Now, I can already pile them into a small pyramid! Looking forward to the future artists in our group!
Thanks
@ChristineHorejs
for your visit today! Great presentation on how to publish and an introduction to the new journal
@natrevbioeng
It was wonderful to catch up again!
Extremely happy to see my contribution to the Orations of
@JCRnEditors
published 👇. I discuss sustainability issues that I believe we need to address in our upcoming research. Download your personal copy using the link below! Thanks to
@DesmedtSmedt
Today, we had the PhD viva of our student Maximilian Richter. Max is the first BION student to defend his work
@Helmholtz_HIPS
. Congratulations and very well done! Thanks Max for the excellent work in the past years.
Very pleased to share our latest manuscript in ACS Applied Bio Materials. We investigated the influence of probiotic culture conditions on their vesicles. Thanks to all contributors!
On my way to Chapel Hill NC for a visiting guest professorship donated by the Galenus Privatstiftung! I will be with
@JulieNguyenLab
at University North Carolina for a month to establish new research connections with
@FAU_Germany
Looking forward to an interesting stay!
More wonderful news this week - our manuscript was just published in Small! Congrats to our student Thomas Kuhn.
Probiomimetics—Novel Lactobacillus‐Mimicking Microparticles Show Anti‐Inflammatory and Barrier‐Protecting Effects in Gastrointestinal Models
A very recent manuscript looks at the transport and diffusion of
#ExtracellularVesicles
within hydrogel matrices Very nice work on fundamental mechanical EV processes in the extracellular matrix
Congrats to
@adriely_goes
for successfully completing your PhD viva today
@Helmholtz_HIPS
! You can be proud of yourself and the work you have done. I look forward to have you as postdoc in our new lab
@UniFAU
🧫🧪👏
🦠🔬 Do you have a degree in in Pharmacy, Biotechnology, Microbiology, or related and would like to pursue PhD work? We have an opening 👇 to work on our
@ERC_Research
Starting Grant
@UniFAU
We are looking for a motivated candidate to join our group by October 2024 (Please RT!)
During cleaning, we found this poster (left 👈) which displays the lab members in 1987. My amazing team prepared our replica (right👉) with the current members. Have a look at the individual details that everyone paid attention to – I am extremely excited! PharmBio rocks !🌟❤️🤓
Retreat des Department Biologie
@UniFAU
in Waischenfeld. Wir haben zu Forschungsschwerpunkten & Strategie der nächsten Jahren diskutiert. Danke an alle für die intensive und engagierte Beteiligung! 🦠🖥️🧬🌱 Ich sehe uns auf einem sehr guten Weg.
#FAUfamily
@Hornegger
@lab_albert
Today,
@JulieNguyenLab
and I went to
@DukeU
to visit the lab of
@daniel_reker
. It was very nice to see the campus and to have lunch together! Thanks for having us.
It has been really a wonderful new year party today! First, brainstorming, then a vegetarian buffet, a pub quiz and chatting. Everything is very unique on our construction site. PharmBios rock! 🪨🎸🥳
I presented this morning at the
#ESCDD
conference in Egmond aan Zee () and highlighted the need to develop new therapeutic avenues against
#AMR
. Thanks to the organisers and
@DesmedtSmedt
for having me at this very special symposium 🦠🇳🇱🙏
@UniFAU
@GSEVorg
Gibt‘s den etwas zu feiern?🍾Ja, die Einweihung unseres
@uniFAU
Forschungszentrums Neue Wirkstoffe NeW! Wann? Am 6.7.23 ab 9 Uhr.
Anmeldungen gern unter:
Danke an
@fau_go
für das Leihen des Lastenrads, um die Getränke zu transportieren.
#FAU_together
Last day in Chapel Hill with a visit to the Old Well
@UNC
. Thanks
@JulieNguyenLab
and
#Galenusfoundation
for making this possible! Time to say goodbye (but only until we meet again 😉)
Had a visit by
@AdvSciNews
Editor Ulrike Kauscher yesterday and we went out for lunch with Marc Schneider from
@Saar_Uni
. We had a great day with scientific chats and then Ulrike went for the conference
@LeibnizWGL
INM. Thanks for visiting
@Helmholtz_HIPS
Very pleased to see our manuscript in press in ADDR! Congrats to PhD student Leila from
@Helmholtz_HIPS
for this wonderful achievement.
@H_Ghandehari
@ADDReditors
Bacterial Extracellular Vesicles: Understanding Biology Promotes Appli...
Very pleased to learn that
@Eilien17
has been selected top Young Scientist by the Local CRS Chapter Germany to give a talk at the virtual CRS Annual Meeting 2020
@CRSOfficial
Congratulations for this wonderful achievement!
@CRS_YSC
Great success of the 3rd EVIta Symposium. We thank our sponsors, local organizers, invited speakers and 210 enthusiastic participants!
Three young members were awarderded for the best oral presentations and six for the best posters... bright future for our community! We rock!
We had two intense days of research retreat with colleagues from
@UniFAU
@UniJena
and
@Saar_Uni
to find a common focus for a collaborative research program. Thanks to everyone who contributed! I am convinced this will be fruitful 🦠🔬🧬
We had a great PhD Day today with many exciting talks, an amazing presentation by
@PStallforth
and lots of networking within the department Biology! Thanks everyone who helped organising it 🦠🧑🔬🌱
Congrats to
@adriely_goes
for her manuscript being accepted in Nanoscale!
@nanoscale_rsc
@knutdrescher
Interaction of myxobacteria-derived outer membrane vesicles with biofilms: antiadhesive and antibacterial effects - now published in Nanoscale
I am surprised (somewhat shocked) by the amount of single use packaging here in the US - so much rubbish! Luckily,
@DPMP_UNC
the water fountain counts how many plastic bottles have been saved and they use rainwater to flush the toilets (check the last line on the toilet sign 😂)
I am
@unibern
today to visit my very good friend and colleague
@luciani_lab
and refresh my Swiss memories! Gave a talk this morning - can you spot my
@UniFAU
socks 🧦? Thanks 🙏 Paola for inviting me!
More great news - our review article on
#ExtracellularVesicles
and their potential for vaccination is now published in ADDR. Congrats to PhD student
@MinaMehanny
!
Extracellular vesicles as antigen carriers for novel vaccination avenu...
I bought a coffee mug this morning to express my temporary affiliation with
@UNC
(and to save a few disposable coffee cups). I think this goes well with my home made cream cheese bagel 😋
Are you an experienced postdoc interested to establish your independent junior research group?
We have a call for open topic applications to initiate your junior research group in the Department of Biology
@UniFAU
More information at:
Please RT!
Plogging accepted! We participated in the
@UniFAU
activity to collect rubbish from the university campus. Thanks to the group and FAU green office for organising this.
Very happy to be featured as member of the
@CRS_FG_bMimetic
! Thanks for this opportunity to say that potato planting is almost as important as research 🤣
On my way to a PhD viva in Italy – of course by TRAIN! Lots of time to catch up on old emails and to think about new research ideas. (Bahnfahrer sind Klimahelden!)
#ClimateAction
We are currently looking for a postdoctoral research associate with expertise in pharmaceutical biology, plant natural products and/or
#extracellularvesicles
More information here: or by contacting me directly.
Please share
We went for dinner with
@MinaMehanny
, who is visiting our group for one week to teach us isolation of primary blood cells. I believe it is a good sign when alumni come back.
#FAUtogether
Our group went on a kayaking trip today on the river Wiesent. Those five hours on the water were challenging but really nice. Thanks to everyone who joined!
Ich war heute beim Empfang
#WelcomeToBavaria
vom
@StMWK_Bayern
und der Bayerischen Staatskanzlei in der Residenz München! Dort habe ich
@Hornegger
und einige andere Kollegen von der
@UniFAU
getroffen. Tolle historische Location, gute Musik und leckerer fränkischer Wein! 🍷🎺
Episode ll - Return to Duke! I went back to
@DukeU
and gave a talk. Thanks
@daniel_reker
for organising the additional discussions. Really glad to meet interesting researchers.
And thanks to
@GoTriangle
for the bus ride - free of charge!
Yesterday we transferred our vegetable plants from the green house to the lab's terrace! Let's hope they survive. Thanks PharmBios for the nice afternoon.
Excited to be hosting
@FuhrmannGregor
(
@UniFAU
) tomorrow 9/23 for our first "Quantitative BioDesign" seminar
@DukeEngineering
. His talk at 2pm in Wilkinson 132 is open to the whole
@DukeU
community and a great way to learn more about extracellular vesicles for drug delivery!
Closing of our
#GSEVUKEV2020
Meeting - thanks to sponsors, speakers and the discussions! Congrats also to Hannah Mizen, the winner of our Fire Talk Award.
Thanks to those PharmBios who went to today's
@UniFAU
gathering for peace in the Schloßpark Erlangen with
@KathrinFuhrman6
! It is important to show that we are against war. 🇺🇦☮️
A list of specific ways in which you can help is available at
#PeaceInUkraine
We just published a manuscript in
@nanoscale_rsc
which discusses the influence of light-stimulation on the antibiotic activity of myxobacterial vesicles 👇
Very nice collaboration with
@Helmholtz_HIPS
!
Maybe finishing on my journey in science to the position where I am now. I did a postdoc at Imperial College London in . Wonderful experience - who can spot me on the picture?
What do you do with the best research group? Take them out for Christmas lunch! Thanks PharmBios for the brainstorming and of course the mulled wine at the Christmas market. So glad to have you 🎄
We published a manuscript on bacteriomimetic liposomes to encapsulate a new energy-coupling transport inhibitor developed by
@HirschLab
Congrats to our PhD student Menka and thanks for the great collaboration
@Helmholtz_HIPS
!
Our paper on streptococcal vesicles as potential vaccination avenue is now available as PDF! Streptococcal Extracellular Membrane Vesicles Are Rapidly Internalized by Immune Cells and Alter Their Cytokine Release
BION had a wonderful virtual Christmas lunch together! First some scientific brainstorming, then vegan food in reusable take-away containers and finally an online escape room. Thanks all for being around - this was great!
New manuscript by
@MinaMehanny
on spray drying of bacterial membrane vesicles for potential vaccination avenues now online in the International Journal of Pharmaceutics
@ELSpharma
Spray-dried Pneumococcal Membrane Vesicles are Promising Candidates fo...
I guess this is what they call a city escape – I was 7 min in Zurich, half an hour in Milan and 20 hours in Pavia. Then back by night train enjoying my single compartment and breakfast somewhere between Salzburg and Munich!