Using large, cooled magnets, Maik Derks is studying how antibiotics bind to molecules in bacteria. How does this binding work? Is there any way to improve the antibiotic? This is what he is trying to find out. Read the full interview bit.ly/3yELHWW

Happy to see the project I worked on during my masters has led to a publication in ChemEurJ: Chemistry - A European Journal. Congratz & thanks all!! Hidde Elferink #BoltjeResearchGroup #IMM Radboud University NWO Domain Science (Inactive) doi.org/10.1002/chem.2…

Boltje and co-workers Radboud University report chloromethyl glycosides as versatile synthons to prepare glycosyloxymethyl-prodrugs #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ch…

Nice count this year! #vogeltelling

Thanks to Barend's amazing data and the AmyloFit platform, we could propose a mechanism for the membrane-catalysed aggregation of IAPP! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

March 11, Friday, noon CET / 6 am EST, Konstantin Ivanov Intercontinental Magnetic Resonance Seminar Series, Markus Weingarth Markus Weingarth Utrecht University, The Netherlands, The mechanisms of Lipid-targeting Antibiotics sites.google.com/view/nmr-semin… #NMRchat #NMR #NMRevents

I'm delighted to share that I got an #ERC Consolidator grant! It's called champANTIBIOTICS - because 🍾 ➕ 💊 go well together 😜. Several positions on Structural Biology & Antibiotics will become available soon. #ERCCoG #NMR Faculty of Science, Utrecht University Utrecht University @Bijvoet_Centre 1/2

Chemistry in America grinds to a halt as SCOTUS votes 6-3 to ban transition states.

Witnessed a launch of #1_2GHz 28.8 T #ultrahighfield #NMR from Bruker. 🤩🥳 Wish lots of beautiful and great results 💝 UtrechtNMR @Bijvoet_Centre Utrecht University

#Teixobactin, isolated from 'unculturable' bacteria, is considered the first new 💊#antibiotic💊 in 30 years. But how does it kill bacteria? We show teixobactin uses a new mechanism that involves a double attack on the cell envelope Out nature nature.com/articles/s4158… #NMR 1/n

Got the super cool opportunity to talk in the dutch radio about our group's recent paper on the mode of action of #teixobactin!! Huge thanks & congratz to Rhythm Shukla Markus Weingarth for the great work!

. ChemEurJ: Chemistry - A European Journal (open) Lipids in Membranes by Solid-State NMR, Roy van Beekveld @RoyVanBeekveld Maik Derks Maik Derks Raj Kumar, Leanna Smid, Thorben Maass, João Medeiros-Silva, Eefjan Breukink, Markus Weingarth* Markus Weingarth Utrecht University …mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100… #NMRchat #NMR

Curing our new NMR tube holder, welcome to the lab capybara!!

Specific Lipid Studies in Complex Membranes by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy (M. Weingarth et al.) Maik Derks @RoyVanBeekveld Raj Pandit Joao Medeiros Silva Markus Weingarth @Bijvoet_Centre onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ch…

🧲💊 Happy to be part of 2023 #RSCPoster! Have a look at our joint poster with ⁦Markus Weingarth⁩ and ⁦PhoenixNMR⁩ about ultra high field solid state #NMR and it’s probes and applications! Happy to answer and questions in the comments below! 🔧 #RSCEng #RSCChemBio

Check out our collaborative poster with PhoenixNMR Jasmin Schönzart. We recently got two brandnew exciting #NMR probeheads from PhoenixNMR for 1200 & 800 MHz that will substantially strengthen our mechanistic studies on #antibiotics. #RSCPoster #RSCENG Maik Derks Rhythm Shukla

🔥Hot off the press⬇️⬇️⬇️ in Nature Microbiology nature.com/articles/s4156… Plectasin is a complex peptide 💊 #antibiotic, isolated from funghi. We show that plectasin uses a new Calcium-dependent supramolecular mechanism to ensnare its target on the membrane surface. 1/4 #NMR

OUT NOW: Fungal derivied plectasin uses a calcium-sensitive supramolecular killing mechanism to block bacterial cell wall synthesis by Maik Derks Markus Weingarth Utrecht University Faculty of Science, Utrecht University Department of Chemistry (Utrecht University) nature.com/articles/s4156…