CeNS: News

Apply for the attocube Research Award 2013!

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:46:00 +0200

The attocube Research Award honours outstanding, highly motivated students of CeNS and/or WSI/ZNN who performed excellent research in the framework of a Masters/Diploma or PhD thesis showing strong innovative ideas and pointing at potential industrial applications. The 2009 established prize is awarded annually by the CeNS spin-off company attocube systems AG.

Two prizes are awarded annually:

2.500 Euro for completed Masters'/Diploma Thesis
5.000 Euro for completed PhD Thesis

In addition to the prize for the applicant, the supervising laboratory of the PhD student receives twice this prize money: 10.000 Euro for supervision of PhD Thesis.

The awardees will be invited to present their research at the CeNS workshop "Nanosciences: Great Adventures on Small Scales" in San Servolo/Venice (16-20 September 2013).

Who can participate?
Master/Diploma and PhD students who performed their thesis under the supervision of a CeNS member and finished their Master, Diploma or PhD Thesis between June 16, 2012 and June 15, 2013 (date of certificate). Candidates should be proposed for the award by a member of CeNS or WSI/ZNN.

Further information

CeNS Travel Awards - Financial support for conferences or workshops

Fri, 31 May 2013 10:08:00 +0200

The Center for NanoScience announces a limited number of Travel Awards for LMU CeNS associates. The travel awards can be used for active participation (talk or poster) in a scientific conference or workshop.

Further information

Cancer research

Tue, 28 May 2013 17:50:00 +0200

LMU researchers have developed a scheme for the preparation of nanoparticles that offer a highly versatile system for targeted drug delivery directly into diverse types of tumor cells. more...

Presseinformation der LMU (deutsch)
Publication "Targeted Drug Delivery in Cancer Cells with Red-Light Photoactivated Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles"

DNA damage

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:03:00 +0200

Adventitious changes in cellular DNA can endanger the whole organism, as they may lead to life-threatening illnesses like cancer. Researchers at LMU now report how byproducts of respiration cause mispairing of subunits in the double helix. more...

Presseinformation der LMU (deutsch)
Publication "Unexpected non-Hoogsteen–based mutagenicity mechanism of FaPy-DNA lesions"

Welcome!

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:49:00 +0200

Petra Schwille studied physics and philosophy in Stuttgart and Göttingen, and graduated 1993 with Diploma in physics at the Georg August University, Göttingen. She obtained her Ph.D. in 1996 from the TU Braunschweig, with a thesis on fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, performed at the MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen. After a postdoctoral stay at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, she returned to the MPI Göttingen as a research group leader, financed by the BMBF Biofuture grant, in 1999. In 2002, she accepted a chair of biophysics at the newly established BIOTEC center of the TU Dresden. Since 2012, she is scientific director of the department Cellular and Molecular Biophysics at the MPI of Biochemistry, Martinsried. Her scientific interests range from single molecule biophysics to the synthetic biology of reconstituted systems.

Link to Petra Schwille's website

Uni-Physiker wollen Medikamente wirksamer machen

Tue, 14 May 2013 08:30:00 +0200

Evolution

Tue, 07 May 2013 08:49:00 +0200

After accretion of the Earth, chemical evolution in the oceans led to the production of molecules that could store and transmit genetic information. LMU physicists now show how modest temperature gradients could have started the process. more...

Presseinformation der LMU (deutsch)
Publication "Escalation of polymerization in a thermal gradient"

Optogenetics

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:26:00 +0100

A German-American team has modified nerve-cell receptors involved in regulating synaptic plasticity so that they react to light. The approach promises new insights into the basis of learning and the pathogenesis of neurological diseases.
more...

Presseinformation der LMU (deutsch)
Publication "Optical control of metabotropic glutamate receptors"

New CeNS Student Representatives

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:12:00 +0100

Hsin-Yi Chiu (LMU Chemistry Department, group of Prof. Bein), Svenja Lippok (LMU Physics Department, group of Prof. Rädler), and Cornelius Weig (LMU Physics Department, group of Prof. Frey) have been elected as the new CeNS student representatives. Congratulations!

The student representatives will serve as contact persons for all CeNS associates, CeNS board and management and will initiate and organise student-related events.

Welcome!

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:49:00 +0100

Julien Polleux studied "Physical Chemistry" at the University of Bordeaux and received his Diploma degree in 2002 for his work on the synthesis of Au@SiO₂ core-shell nanoparticles. He subsequently started his PhD studies at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in the group of Prof. Antonietti and Prof. Niederberger, where he studied the formation and the assembly of metal oxide nanoparticles mediated by small polydentate ligands in nonaqueous solvents. He showed how to control the assembly of functionalized anatase nanoparticles into nanowires via "oriented attachment" and elaborated fast one-step approaches to synthesize WO_3-x ordered nanostructures. In 2005, he decided to interface cell biology and moved to Prof. Dunn's group at UCLA, where he worked on the differentiation of pluripotent stem cells through the formation of embryoid bodies on hydrophobic self-assembled monolayers, in close collaboration with Prof. Wu. After a short stay in Prof. Spatz's lab, he moved in 2008 to Prof. Fässler's group at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry near Munich to focus on integrin-mediated adhesion. Over the last years, he developed several micro/nanofabrication techniques to design functional culture substrates, which have the ability to 1) simultaneously engage different classes of cell surface receptors for cross-talk studies by using binary nanoarrays and 2) reversibly manipulate integrin binding with the help of thermoplasmonics. By combining these approaches, he aims at dynamically controlling the interactions between the extracellular matrix and various transmembrane receptors in order to investigate reciprocal signaling circuits with high-resolution live-cell imaging.