October 2019
Marie won the Erna Scheffler Sponsorship Award for her Master thesis. The ceremony took place at the German Federal Constitutional Court. Congratulations!
Marie and Ines gave popular scientific presentations at the "Bunte Nacht der Digitalisierung", a public event organized by the city of Karlsruhe.
Alexander and Jan got the article "Direct coupling analysis improves the identification of beneficial amino acid mutations for the functional thermostabilization of a delicate decarboxylase" published in Biological Chemistry.
Ines and Marie presented their work at the CECAM workshop "Protein simulations - current state of the art" at Tel Aviv University, Israel.
August 2019
Ines and Alexander got the article "Identification of evolutionary and kinetic drivers of NAD-dependent signaling" published in PNAS.
July 2019
Oskar got the article "diSTruct v1.0: generating biomolecular structures from distance constraints" published in Bioinformatics.
June 2019
Fabrizio got the article "Shedding light on the dark matter of the biomolecular structural universe: Progress in RNA 3D structure prediction" published in Methods.
May 2019
Ines successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations! She will continue to work in our group as a PostDoc for some months.
Fathia joined our group as a PhD student. Welcome!
Momin got the article "Rising Up: Hierarchical Metal-Organic Frameworks in Experiments and Simulations" published in Advanced Materials.
March 2019
Marie got the article "Rapid interpretation of small-angle X-ray scattering data" published in PLOS Computational Biology.
For 2019's "Girls' Day", ten interested girls from various high schools in and near Karlsruhe visited our group at SCC. Together with some collegues, Marie gave a short overview to our work at the institute's 3D visualization room and organized a workshop with programming games and a virtual-reality framework.
December 2018
Julian joined our group as a Master student. He has already worked with us as a Hiwi some time ago, so welcome back!
April 2018
Marie and Oskar started their work as PhD students in our group. Welcome back!
Alexander, Arthur, Marie, and Oskar attended a Helmholtz Analytics Framework meeting for the usecase "Structural Biology" together with the groups of Prof. Michael Sattler from Technical University of Munich and Prof. Gunnar Schröder from Forschungszentrum Jülich at the Bavarian NMR center, Forschungscampus Garching.
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For 2018's "Girls' Day", ten interested young ladies from different high schools in Karlsruhe area visited our group at SCC. Marie and Oskar gave a short introduction to our work at the institute's 3D visualization room and organized a workshop with programming games and small simulations.
March 2018
The whole group went to the DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section (SKM) together with the EPS in Berlin. Alexander organized a focus session on statistical physics-based methods in molecular evolution together with Prof. Martin Weigt from Institut de Biologie, Paris. Ines and Marie gave talks about their work and Arthur, Lars, Mehari, and Oskar presented their projects in the poster sessions.
January 2018
Arthur continues his work as a PhD student in our group. Oskar finished his Master thesis. Congratulations!
December 2017
Ines got the article "Simulation of FRET dyes allows quantitative comparison against experimental data" accepted in Journal of Chemical Physics.
November 2017
Marie and Arthur finished their Master theses. Lars finished his Bachelor thesis. Congratulations!
October 2017
Kickoff meeting of the Helmholtz Analytics Framework at Forschungszentrum Jülich. We are leading the use case "Structural Biology" with partners at KIT, Forschungszentrum Jülich, and Helmholtz Zentrum München.
Mehari got the review article "Biomolecular coevolution and its applications: Going from structure prediction toward signaling, epistasis, and function" published in Biochemical Society Transactions. Congratulations!
September 2017
Alexander started his work as a NIC group leader at Forschungszentrum Jülich. The group MBS will continue their work at KIT.
June 2017
Linda finished her Bachelor thesis 'Analysis of the Importance of the Score Value, Calculated by Direct Coupling Analysis, for Protein Folding' and continues her work as a HiWi.
April 2017
Lars joined our group as a Bachelor student. Welcome!
March 2017
The group attended the workshop 'Computer Simulation and Theory of Macromolecules 2017' in Huenfeld and Marie won a poster prize. Congratulations!
February 2017
Momin joined our group as a PhD student. Welcome!
Ines got the article "Bi-functional nanopatterned hydrogels control hematopoietic stem cell maintenance and proliferation" accepted in Advanced Functional Materials.
Alexander got the article "Large-scale identification of coevolution signals across homo-oligomeric protein interfaces by direct coupling analysis" accepted in PNAS.
Ines gave a presentation at the Biophysical Society Meeting in New Orleans, USA.
Alexander gave a presentation at Google, Mountainview, USA.
Alexander gave a presentation at CTBP, Rice University, USA.
January 2017
Claude finished his PhD. Congratulations!
Oskar joined our group as a Master student. Welcome!
November 2016
Arthur joined our group as a Master student. Welcome!
Jakob joined our group as a Master student. Welcome!
October 2016
Alexander gave a presentation at "Nacht der Wissenschaft".
Marie joined our group as a Master student. Welcome!
Michael finished his Master thesis in CS (jointly with group of Prof. H. Meyerhenke).
Alexander gave a presentation at International Study Group for Systems Biology in Jena, Germany.
September 2016
Alexander gave a presentation at GridKa School Karlsruhe.
June 2016
Alexander was an oppenent of PhD Candidate Anna Bille at Lund University (Sweden). Anna succesfully defended. Congratulations.
Alexander gave a presentation at Lund University, Sweden.
May 2016
Alexander gave a presentation at From Computational Biophysics to Systems Biology, Ankara, Turkey.
Alexander gave a presentation at Biomolecular Simulations across Scales, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
April 2016
Hannah Rickmann and Ralf Schnaterer finished their project "Proteinfaltung am Computer" inside our high-school outreach program "Simulierte Welten". We hope you enjoyed the experience!
Alexander gave a presentation at Coevolutionas in proteins and RNA, Cargese, France.
December 2015
Claude got the article "Revealing the Global Map of Protein Folding Space by Large-Scale Simulations" accepted in Journal of Chemical Physics.
November 2015
Alexander got the article "Constructing a folding model for protein S6 guided by dynamics deduced from NMR structures" accepted in Journal of Chemical Physics.
October 2015
Claude was given a best talk award at the XIXth European Contress of Lepidopterology.
September 2015
Benjamin and Sebastian got the article "Direct-Coupling Analysis of nucleotide coevolution facilitates RNA tertiary structure prediction" published in Nucleic Acids Research.
Alexander got the publication "Coevolutionary inference of mutational landscapes: Capturing the context-dependence of mutations in the beta-lactamase TEM-1" accepted in Molecular Biology and Evolution.
August 2015
Sebastian finished his Master thesis. Congratulations!
Fabian finished his Bachelor thesis. Congratulations!
Jan joined our group as HiWi. Welcome!
Carlos joined our group as HiWi. Welcome!
Alexander presented our research at the Stadtfest Karlsruhe.
June 2015
Ines won the Erna Scheffler Sponsorship Award for her Master thesis. The ceremony took place at the German Federal Constitutional Court. Congratulations, Ines!
http://www.kit.edu/kit/english/pi_2015_062_erna-scheffler-sponsorship-award.php
David Oberacker (Gymnasium Neureut) and Joshua Hellinger (Bismark-Gymnasium) finished their project "Proteinfaltung am Computer" inside our high-school outreach program "Simulierte Welten". We hope you enjoyed the experience!
School Colloquium „Simulierte Welten“ at SCC
May 2015
Fabian joined our group as a Bachelor student. Welcome!
April 2015
Ines continues her studies as a PhD student in our group. Welcome back!
March 2015
Alexander got a publication accepted in Methods Enzymology.
January 2015
The lecture "Theoretical molecular Biophysics" (WS2014/2015) got top grades from students (LQI 100/100, graded "very good" as total grade).
December 2014
Ilaria joined our group. Welcome!
November 2014
Claude got a publication accepted in Nature Communication.
Update:
Links http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150105/ncomms6846/abs/ncomms6846.html
Press releases: http://www.kit.edu/kit/english/pi_2015_16157.php
Ines finished her master thesis.
August 2014
Sebastian joined our group.
July 2014
Ramneek did a very nice video clip on protein folding simulations.
May 2014
March 2014
February 2014
January 2014
Abhinav finished his postdoc with us and joined Shell.
November 2013
Benny got an article accepted in Nucleic Acids Research.
October 2013
Shalini John Lovis joined our group as a postdoc. Ines Reinartz joined our group as a master student. Claude Sinner started his PhD. Welcome!
August 2013
Benny got an article accepted in Bioinformatics.
An article together with the group of W. Wenzel got accepted in FEBS Letters.
July 2013
Visit of Prof. A. Möglich.
June 2013
Claude finished his Diploma thesis. Congratulations!
June 2013
Application for WE-Heraeus seminar accepted.
January 2013
Prof M. Weigt visited our group.
December 2012
Visit of Dr. A. Stadler (FZ Jülich).
Visit of Thomas-Otavio Peulen (HHU Düsseldorf).
October 2012
Dr. Jeff Noel (Rice University, TX, USA) visited our group for a month.
October 2012
Prof. Changbong Hyeon (KIAS, Korea) visited our group for two weeks.
April 2012
Our article "Structural basis of histidine kinase autophosphorylation deduced by integrating genomics, molecular dynamics and mutagenesis" has been accepted for publication in PNAS.
July 2011
Abhinav joined our group.
June 2011
Benjamin joined our group as a PhD student.
April 2011
The group started @KIT.
