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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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Professor Katharina Landfester joined Nanoscale Horizons as the new Editorial Board Chair! more

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Ernesta Heinrich successfully passed her Ph.D. examination in January 2020. Congratulations!

The Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPIP, Germany) and the Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC, Thailand) opened the 1^st 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.

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

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".

Domenik Prozeller successfully passed his Ph.D. examination in 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).

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.