Out now, in Structural Biology: A new paper from Neumann et al, with contributions from Jan Wollenhaupt and Manfred S. Weiss. Read all about it here:

doi.org/10.1107/S20597…

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Out now in ChemMedChem: a paper describing the development of inhibitors against Furin, a protease involved in the activation of Influenza virus, featuring contributions from our group and data collected at BL 14.2. Read it here:

doi.org/10.1002/cmdc.2…

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Very happy news: after the cyber attack, our beamline 14.2 is now back in operation - our first happy users are collecting their data and using our new sample changer!

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Exciting news: the first 2024 structures with data collected at our MX beamlines are out in the Protein Data Bank! 8RNV, 8RNW and 8RNX are structures of Lysozyme soaked with Ruthenium compounds. Check them out at the PDB!

rcsb.org/structure/8RNV

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Are you interested in a post-doc position that allows you to do exciting science using x-ray crystallography? Then come and join us as part of the joint MX collaboration! More information and how to apply here (website in german):

haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/st…

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To all of our users, we wish a very merry christmas and a great start into a healthy and sucessfull new year, filled with exciting discoveries!

New paper out ACS_Omega, with data collected at BL 14.1 and 14.2 and with contributions from Manfred S. Weiss and Jan Wollenhaupt. You can read the paper here:

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

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This Thursday at 1.00 pm CET, Tatjana from the MX group will talk about 'Crystallographic Fragment Screening at the HZB' as part of the ECA lunchtime webinars - if you are interested, register for this free talk here:

eventbrite.com/e/24th-eca-lun…

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MX group abroad: this month, Laila Benz and Bill Scanlan from the MX group are at the Australian Synchrotron near Melbourne, visiting the MX beamlines and doing some exciting experiments!

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Gert Weber from the MX group has won second place at the HZB Technologietransfer price competition with his project 'Enhanced cyanobacterial protein colourants for food industry, solar technology and scientific applications'. Congratulations!

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Manfred Weiss visiting the MX beamline 5C at PAL. From left to right: Eo Chul-Soo (beamline assistant), Manfred Weiss, Jeong Jae-Hee (responsible for fragment-screening experiments) and Kim Yeon-Gil (5C beamline scientist).

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A very successful and interesting workshop on crystallographic fragment-screening IUCr2023, with over 50 participant and contributions from Tatjana. Watch out for the full summary on the IUCr newsletter!

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Out now in Structural Biology: a paper with data from BL14.1 and contributions from Manfred S. Weiss and Jan Wollenhaupt. If you want to read more about fragment-based approaches targeting mycobacterial thioredoxin reductases, check the paper out here:

journals.iucr.org/d/issues/2023/…

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Want to know more about BESSY? Read this Tagesspiegel article, detailing “A night at BESSY”, including a description of our beamlines and short interviews with two of our users. A worthwhile read (only in german)!

tagesspiegel.de/wissen/eine-na…

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First PhD from the MX group! Congratulations to Dr. Tatjana Barthel, who just defended her thesis and passed with flying colours!!

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Out now in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications: new paper with contributions from Manfred S. Weiss , showcasing a structure from a Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein which was solved with the help of an alphafold model!

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37336124/

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Happening now at the #BESSYusermeeting : the poster session, including posters by our fantastic users, such as Atilla Ambrus from Semmelweis University, presenting a really cool study about pathomechanisms in human lipoamide hydrogenase deficiency!

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Now at the #BESSYusermeeting : Irena Senkovska speaking about her work on metal organic frameworks, and how she uses the crystal structures solved at our MX beamlines to develop flexible MOFs with a range of different applications!

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Now at the #BESSYusermeeting : Prof Jon Hughes, one of the users at our MX beamlines, talking about his work on phytochrome and the numerous structures he and his group have solved to understand this protein!

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This afternoon at ECS8, we also heard from the MX groups' Laila Benz, who presented everything you need to know about crystallography as a screening technique!

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