Biophysical Chemistry

Visit from Hebrew U - Enjoying the TUDO Mensa cuisine with Paul Harris!

Comparing SAXS and smFRET with Jan Lipfert: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

The conserved lysine residue in transmembrane helix 5 is pivotal for the cytoplasmic gating of the L-amino acid transporters Abstract. L-Amino acid transporters (LATs) play a key role in a wide range of physiological processes. Defects in LATs can lead to neurological disorders a

A new papers from 2025: smFRET on a membrane transporter (academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...) with Manuel Palacin from Barcelona!

Congrats to Gabriel for winning a price for the best presentation at the "Tag der Chemie 2025" at TU Dortmund.

Tag der Chemie 2025 (ccb.tu-dortmund.de/fakultaet-cc...) - and a photo from a "student party"

Visitors from LMU and a functioning ÄKTA in Dortmund - thanks Nico!!!

January 2025: A visit to our satellite lab at LMU. Nice to be here again!

Christmas Time in Dortmund

Congrats to Gabriel for winning the Picoquant Student Award on the 2024 Workshop!

December 2024: Welcome to Dr. Mostofa Ataur Rohman who joins our lab as an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoc - congratulations on obtaining the grant and welcome to the lab!

Modular Design and Scaffold‐Synthesis of Multi‐Functional Fluorophores for Targeted Cellular Imaging and Pyroptosis A modular approach is established to synthesize multi-functional fluorophores via a scaffolding approach using the Ugi four-component reaction. The characterization and applications of a small librar...

November 2024: Welcome to Dortmund Siyu Lu! We wish you a fruitful continuation of your PhD here! We start with a common publication on functional dyes with a previous postdoc from our lab at Nanjing Tech University - Dr. Lei Zhang: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A ‘Swiss army knife’ microscope that doesn’t break the bank The parts of a 3D-printed device can be changed out, allowing for versatility as well as ultrahigh resolution.

Congrats Gabriel, the team and our collaborators from Hebrew U on two new papers on compact microscopes (www.science.org/doi/full/10....) and their applications to virus detection (www.cell.com/iscience/ful... - we got even featured in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/d41....

November 2024: Hongbin Wu moves from Munich to Dortmund to start his PhD - welcome Hongbin!

September 2024: Dr. Thomas Peulen joins the BPC group - a warm welcome!

Setting up an µsALEX confocal and refurbishing our MicroTime 200 - exciting to see our first single-molecules in the new lab!

September 2024: The Cordes lab "Biophysical Chemistry" starts officially in Dortmund. Bye bye Biocenter and LMU (a last impression of the PSB-group@LMU below):