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2023

March 2023 - BOW Meeting
Ana Mateos Maroto and Svenja Morsbach joined the next consortium meeting of the European project BOW „Biogenic Organotropic Wetsuits“ in Santiago de Compostela from March 20-22. It was great to meet partners at USC and as always very productive! more
March 2023 - Guest visit

March 2023 - Guest visit

Visit from scientists from Costa Rica. To study the extraordinary properties of the skin of the velvet worm (Epiperipatus biolleyi) native to Costa Rica, the AK-Landfester had three scientists from CeNAT as guests.
March 2023 - The Sense-Compute-Response Paradigm Workshop
Tsvetomir Ivanov gave a talk at The Sense-Compute-Response Paradigm Workshop in Darmstadt about his work on adaptive multi-compartmentalized microreactors obtained by oleyl alcohol-assisted polymersome assembly. It was a great opportunity to meet and discuss ideas with the leading researchers in the field. more
March 2023 - Defense time!

March 2023 - Defense time!

"Congratulations to Dr. Richard da Costa Marquez to the successful defense of his PhD thesis about Proteomic studies on intracellular nanocarrier trafficking and regenerative bone substitute materials .
February 2023 - SuperCol meeting
Francesca Mazzotta, Iain Harley, and Ingo Lieberwirth joined a SuperCol meeting in Fribourgh in February, where they discussed new aspects of super-resolution microscopy for the localization of functional groups on nanoscaled colloids. more
February 2023 - Defense time!

February 2023 - Defense time!

"Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Oberländer to the successful defense of her PhD thesis about the effect of temperature on the protein corona around nanoparticles and the exocytosis of nanoparticles from cells.
February 2023 - Group retreat

February 2023 - Group retreat

We had a great time at our first group retreat after a long time! Lots of aspects about sustainability were discussed in the middle of the snowy hills around the Tegernsee. Of course, we also did not miss a good snowball fight!
January 2023 - Stay in Waalwijk

January 2023 - Stay in Waalwijk

Francesca Mazzotta, working for the SuperCol project, started her industrial secondment at Covestro! For the next 10 weeks she will have the opportunity to see and understand how a company works and give her contribution to their scientific project. We wish her lots of luck! 
 

2022

December 2022 - Defense time!

December 2022 - Defense time!

"Congratulations to Dr. Thao Doan-Nguyen to the successful defense of her PhD thesis about mass transport phenomena as hidden gems for reducing the size of colloidal nanomaterials. Thao just returned to Thailand after one wonderful year in our labs in Mainz."
 
November 2022 - AK poster session

November 2022 - AK poster session

We had lots of great discussions about all the current research projects going on in our group. The first internal department poster session was a success!
October 2022 - BOW Consortium Meeting in Catania
We are halfway into our European project BOW and met with our partners from many different countries on the beautiful slopes of Etna. Ana Mateos Maroto and Svenja Morsbach participated in intense days of project discussions and team-building from October 2 - 6. more
October 2022 - ESCA project
Successful first vintage in our vinyard at MPIP. 10 liters of grape juice - ESCA free - wait to become great Riesling wine. It is part of our ESCApe project and closely connected to our newly founded company "Lignilabs". more
September 2022 - ECIS conference
This time at the 36th ECIS conference, María Martínez Negro presented her work about the characterization of PEG-protein interactions on nanoparticles using neutron scattering techniques. The conference was held from September 4-9 in Chania, Crete. You can check out the results in Biomacromolecules. more
July 2022 - Prague Meeting on Macromolecules
This year, Mareike Deuker from our group presented her PhD work about protein-nanocarrier interactions at the 84th PMM - Frontiers of Polymer Colloids. Again a great conference, which took place from July 24 - 28 in the beautiful city of Prague. Until next time! more
July 2022 - Summer School CRC 1066

July 2022 - Summer School CRC 1066

Cool science during hot days: Part of the AK Landfester participated in the joint summer school of the Collaborative Research Center 1066 from Mainz and the CRC 1278 „Polytarget“ from Jena. They presented and discussed their projects about nanocarriers for drug delivery!
June 2022 - Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
Shoupeng Cao participated in the 71st Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. The event featured inspiring lectures by Nobel Laureates and fruitful discussions with the young scientists from all over the world. more
June 2022 - Stay in Eindhoven
Francesca Mazzotta, an ESR from the SuperCol ITN, just returned from her first secondment in the Technical University of Eindhoven. During her stay, she learned to collect and analyse DNA PAINT data to characterise functional groups on the nanoparticle surface. Many thanks to Ilja Voets and Peter Zijlstra for welcoming her in their groups. Additional acknowledgment to Bahar Rouhvand and  Bárbara Malheiros, two other ESRs from the same consortium, for guiding her in their beautiful lab. more
May 2022 - EMBL IC Symposium
On 31 May, a symposium was held at EMBL in Heidelberg to mark the opening of the imaging centre. Iain Harley, ESR from the SuperCol project, attended the event. In addition to excellent lectures on cryo-EM and superresolution microscopy, 3 of which were given by Nobel Laureates (Stefan Hell, Richard Hendersen and William Moerner), there was also the opportunity to visit the Imaging Centre and to discuss with colleagues at the poster session in the evening or even have a chat with one of the Nobel Laureates. more
May 2022 - SynCell Conference
Tsvetomir Ivanov and Lucas Silva participated in the International Conference on Engineering of Synthetic Cells and Organelles (SynCell 2022) in The Hague, Netherlands. Excellent talks and discussions about the future of this exciting field! more
May 2022 - Defense time!

May 2022 - Defense time!

Maximilian Brückner successfully passed his Ph.D. examination in May 2022. Congratulations!
May 2022 - CLINAM Conference

May 2022 - CLINAM Conference

Congratulations to Jenny Schunke and Michael Fichter for their poster prizes at the CLINAM conference. Jenny Schunke received the second prize in the category "Basic Nanomedicine Priorities", Michael Fichter the third prize in the category "Translational Nanomedicine Priorities".
April 2022 - EU project meeting
BOW consortium meeting: First in person meeting for the EU project BOW! Ana Mateos Maroto and Svenja Morsbach went to the beautiful city of Florence on April 6-8. It was great to see all our partners not only in a virtual environment but in real life. more
March 2022 - Ves4Us project finished

March 2022 - Ves4Us project finished

And just like that... our time with the EU project VES4US has already ended! A great and very successful period was summed up in the final annual meeting.
March 2022 - Defense time!

March 2022 - Defense time!

Junren Wang successfully passed her Ph.D. examination in February 2022. Congratulations!

2021

December 2021

December 2021

Wenxin Wei successfully passed his Ph.D. examination in December 2021. Congratulations!
November 2021

November 2021

Lorena Infante Teixeira successfully passed her Ph.D. examination in November 2021. Congratulations!
November 2021

November 2021

Congratulations to Dr. Mongkhol Prawatborisut who successfully graduated in Thailand. Mongkhol was a guest PhD student in our group for two years.
November 2021

November 2021

Shoupeng Cao has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship. Congratulations!
 
November 2021

November 2021

Congratulations to the members of the Silva Group for winning the 1st place at the MPIP Poster Day (November 4, 2021). The poster, "Multicompartmentalization and Adaptivity in Synthetic Cell-Like Systems", was presented by Arjaree Jobdeedamrong and Tsvetomir Ivanov.
 
October 2021

October 2021

Congratulations to Suttiruk Salaluk who successfully passed his Ph.D. examination in Thailand. Suttiruk was visiting PhD student in our group in 2019/2020.
September 2021

September 2021

Shen Han successfully passed his Ph.D. examination in September 2021. Congratulations!
September 2021

September 2021

SFB1066 retreat in Oberlahr: It is great to have a in person retreat to discuss with PIs and students fascinating science about nanomedicine!
September 2021

September 2021

Marina Machtakova successfully passed his Ph.D. examination in September 2021. Congratulations!
September 2021

September 2021

Fabian Uebel successfully passed his Ph.D. examination in September 2021. Congratulations!
September 2021 - Opening of the Polymer Trail
We celebrated the official opening of our Polymer Trail! An educational project about the diverse world of polymers and plastics, their applications, challenges and chances. more
July 2021

July 2021

Niklas Huber successfully passed his Ph.D. examination in July 2021. Congratulations!
June 2021

June 2021

Marie-Luise Frey successfully passed her Ph.D. examination in June 2021. Congratulations!
April 2021

April 2021

We enthusiastically congratulate Doungporn Crespy and Raweewan Thiramanas for the rewards for their theses from the National Research Council of Thailand. Both graduated from Mainz after working successfully in our department.
April 2021

April 2021

Henry Halim successfully passed his Ph.D. examination in April 2021. Congratulations!
March 2021

March 2021

Yinzhou Guo successfully passed his Ph.D. examination in March 2021. Congratulations!
March 2021

March 2021

Cyrine Ayed successfully passed her Ph.D. examination in March 2021. Congratulations!

2020

December 2020

December 2020

Oksana Suraeva successfully passed her Ph.D. examination in December 2020. Congratulations!
December 2020

December 2020

Great news: the collaborative research center SFB1450 ("Multiscale imaging of organ-specific inflammation") with the University of Münster will start in January. We are proud of being part with one joint project "Nanocapsule-based functional analysis of myeloid cells and platelets in autoimmune diseases". We are looking forwards to fruitful interactions.
December 2020
Professor Katharina Landfester joined Nanoscale Horizons as the new Editorial Board Chair! more
December 2020

December 2020

Samaneh Rasoulinejad successfully passed her Ph.D. examination in December 2020. Congratulations!
November 2020

November 2020

Shafee Alkanawati successfully passed his Ph.D. examination in November 2020. Congratulations!
November 2020

November 2020

Long Yang successfully passed his Ph.D. examination in November 2020. Congratulations!
November 2020

November 2020

At the Poster Week of the Institute, which was held from November 2-6, 2020, Marina Machtakova presented her work on “Performing Chemical Reactions with Self-Sustaining Enzyme Nanocapsules”. She was awarded with the 1st Poster Prize.
October 2020

October 2020

Mengyi Li successfully passed her Ph.D. examination in October 2020. Congratulations!
October 2020

October 2020

Young-Gon Kim successfully passed his Ph.D. examination in October 2020. Congratulations!
September 2020

September 2020

Ilke Sentürk successfully passed her Ph.D. examination in September 2020. Congratulations!
September 2020

September 2020

Dongdong Xu successfully passed his Ph.D. examination in September 2020. Congratulations!
September 2020

September 2020

Sebastian Beckers successfully defended his PhD thesis about drug delivery in plants in an online exam. Congratulations!
September 2020

September 2020

On 02.09.2020 Andreas Riedinger presented a talk "Kinetically Driven Self-Assembly of Semiconductor Nanoplatelets" at the SimOEP'20 Online Conference.
June 2020

June 2020

Nadzeya Nazarova successfully passed her Ph.D. examination in June 2020. Congratulations!
June 2020

June 2020

Rebecca Momper successfully passed her Ph.D. examination in June 2020. Congratulations!
June 2020
We are happy that our recent paper "Immunoglobulins on the surface of differently charged polymer nanoparticles" by D. Prozeller et al. in Biointerphases is featured in a Scilight article. Check it out!

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May 2020

May 2020

Tobias Haider successfully passed his Ph.D. examination in May 2020. Congratulations!
May 2020

May 2020

Tassilo Gleede successfully passed his Ph.D. examination in May 2020. Congratulations!
May 2020

May 2020

On 07.05.2020 Andreas Riedinger presented a talk "Kinetically Driven Self-Assembly of Semiconductor Nanoplatelets" at the NanoGe NC Online Conference.
April 2020

April 2020

On 30.04.2020 Andreas Riedinger presented a talk "Kinetically Driven Self-Assembly of Semiconductor Nanoplatelets" at the Nano Plus Online Meetup.
March 2020
Calum Ferguson recently represented the group in the RSC poster day, a virtual chemistry poster competition, on March 3rd. During the poster day, 700 delegates shared their poster on twitter, with over 5,000 total tweets and participants from over 55 different countries. It was a great event! more
February 2020

February 2020

The last Meeting of Max Planck University of Twente Center for Complex Fluid Dynamics took place at Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz in February. During the meeting more than 50 participants from all working teams exchanged new ideas and strengthened the collaboration within the center.
February 2020

February 2020

Congratulations! Stefan Peil's master thesis was awarded with the Biofach Award. (Foto: left: Jürgen Tölke; Geschäftsführer Biofino, right: Stefan Peil, Nürnberg Biofach 2020, 13.2.2020)
January 2020

January 2020

Ernesta Heinrich successfully passed her Ph.D. examination in January 2020. Congratulations!
January 2020
Dr. Svenja Morsbach was selected as one of the "Polymer Chemistry Emerging Investigators 2020", featuring her research in the corresponding special issue published in january. Congratulations! more
January 2020

January 2020

Sino-European Price: Dr. Kai Zhang was selected as one of the “2019 Top 10 Leading Chinese Talents for Science and Technology in Europe”. He was awarded at the 11th FCPAE Europe Forum in Dublin, Ireland. Congratulations!

2019

December 2019

December 2019

Marc Müller successfully passed his Ph.D. examination in December 2019. Congratulations!
October 2019

October 2019

On 26.09.2019, Olga Koshkina presented a talk "Controlled Synthesis of Perfluorocarbon-loaded Polymeric Nanoparticles for 19F MRI: from the Bench towards the Clinics" at the 3rd Molecular Imaging Symposium MoBi 2019 in Münster.
October 2019

October 2019

On October 1st, 2019, the EU project AlternativesToGd started in which we participate as a partner.
October 2019

October 2019

The Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPIP, Germany) and the Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC, Thailand) opened the 1st Max Planck Partner Laboratory of Thailand. The newly founded International Research Center is headed by Assoc. Prof. Daniel Crespy and will focus on the creation of sustainable polymer materials. Prof. Dr. Katharina Landfester, Prof. Dr. Volker Mailaender, Dr. Heloise Therien-Aubin, and Dr. Manfred Wagner participated to the opening ceremony on the 03rd of October 2019. The Max Planck-VISTEC Partner Laboratory has successfully gathered scientific and financial commitments from VISTEC and the MPIP to ensure a long term and fruitful collaboration between both institutes.
September 2019

September 2019

We are delighted to have Prof. Yanlei Yu and Prof. Jia Wei from Fudan University for their visit.
September 2019

September 2019

Dr. Svenja Morsbach visited the University of Hasselt for giving a lecture at the Nanotechnology Crossing Borders symposium on September 26th, 2019 about the "Characterization of Nanocarriers in Biological Media".
September 2019

September 2019

Domenik Prozeller successfully passed his Ph.D. examination in September 2019.
September 2019

September 2019

On 19.09.2019 Andreas Riedinger presented a talk "Kinetically Driven Self-Assembly of Semiconductor Nanoplatelets" at the NaNaX9 conference in Hamburg.
September 2019

September 2019

Dr. Banu Iyisan gave a talk about "Temperature Sensing in Cells by Polymeric Upconversion Nanocapsules" at the 33rd Conference of the European Colloid and Interface Society (ECIS) ECIS in Leuven (Belgium).
August 2019

August 2019

We welcome Yun Gao and Xiaojie Yin in Kai Zhang's group, both coming from the Shanghai University where they work in the group of our former group member Liping Lv.