UNISYSCAT - Key Persons
Al-Naji, M.; Popova, M.; Chen, Z.; Wilde, N.; Gläser, R.: Aqueous-phase hydrogenation of levulinic acid using formic acid as a sustainable reducing agent over Pt catalysts supported on mesoporous zirconia, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 8 (2020) 393.
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- Public Relations / Administrative Coordinator
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- Department of Physics / Genetic Biophysics / Room - 1.2.05
J.-P. Demers, B. Habenstein, A. Loquet, S. K. Vasa, K. Giller, S. Becker, D. Baker, A. Lange*, and N. G. Sgourakis*, High-resolution structure of the Shigella type-III secretion needle determined by solid-state NMR and cryo-electron microscopy, Nature Communications 2014, 5, 4976.
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- Advisor on Gender Equality
D. Gómez-Ríos, V. A. López-Agudelo, H. Ramírez-Malule, P. Neubauer, S. Junne, S. Ochoa, R. Ríos-Estepa, A Genome-Scale Insight into the Effect of Shear Stress During the Fed-Batch Production of Clavulanic Acid by Streptomyces clavuligerus, Microorganisms 2020, 8 (9). https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8091255
Smith, C.A.; Brandi, F.; Al-Naji, M.: Guterman, R.; Resin-supported iridium complex for low-temperature vanillin hydrogenation using formic acid in water, RSC Advances 11 (2021) 15835.
M. Horch, Rational redox tuning of transition metal sites: learning from superoxide reductase, Chemical Communications 2019, 55, 9148-9151.
E. Siebert, M. Horch, Y. Rippers, J. Fritsch, S. Frielingsdorf, O. Lenz, F. Velazquez Escobar, F. Siebert, L. Paasche, U. Kuhlmann, F. Lendzian, M. A. Mroginski, I. Zebger, P. Hildebrandt, Resonance Raman spectroscopy as a tool to monitor the active site of hydrogenases, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2013, 52, 5162-5165.
T. H. Lonsdale, L. Lauterbach, S. Honda Malca, B. M. Nestl, B. Hauer, O. Lenz, H 2-driven biotransformation of n-octane to 1-octanol by a recombinant Pseudomonas putida strain co-synthesizing an O 2-tolerant hydrogenase and a P450 monooxygenase, Chemical Communications 2015, 51, 16173-16175.
L. Lauterbach, O. Lenz, Catalytic production of hydrogen peroxide and water by oxygen tolerant [NiFe]-hydrogenase during H 2 cycling in the presence of O 2, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2013, 135, 17897-17905.
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- Expertise: Membrane Biophysics, Synthetic Biology
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- Expertise: Multiscale Modeling, Applied Mathematics for Chemistry
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P. Gelß, S. Matera, Ch. Schütte, Solving the master equation without kinetic Monte Carlo: Tensor train approximations for a CO oxidation model, Journal of Computational Physics 2016, 314(1), 489-502.
S. Matera, M. Maestri, A. Cuoci, K. Reuter, Predictive-quality surface reaction chemistry in real reactor models: Integrating first-principles kinetic Monte Carlo simulations into computational fluid dynamics, ACS Catalysis 2014, 4(11), 4081-4092.
S. Matera, K. Reuter, First-principles approach to heat and mass transfer effects in model catalyst studies. Catalysis letters 2009, 133(1-2), 156-159.
J.W. Straten, P. Schleker, M. Krasowska, E. Veroutis, J. Granwehr, A.A. Auer, W. Hetaba, S. Becker, R. Schlögl, S. Heumann, Nitrogen-Functionalized Hydrothermal Carbon Materials by Using Urotropine as the Nitrogen Precursor, Chemistry - A European Journal 2018, 24, 12298-12317.
E. Siebert, M. Horch, Y. Rippers, J. Fritsch, S. Frielingsdorf, O. Lenz, F. Velazquez Escobar, F. Siebert, L. Paasche, U. Kuhlmann, F. Lendzian, M. A. Mroginski, I. Zebger, P. Hildebrandt, Resonance Raman spectroscopy as a novel tool to monitor the active site of hydrogenases: new insights into structure and reactivity, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2013, 52, 5162-5165.
H. M. Müller-Werkmeister, J. Bredenbeck, A donor-acceptor pair for the real-time study of energy flow in proteins, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2014, 16, 3261-3266
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- Department of Biology
- Department of Chemistry
K. Deisseroth, E. Ferencczi, P. Hegemann, System for modulating the membrane potential of a cell, comprises nucleotide sequences encoding a light-activated protein and a response protein that responds to the passage of the ion through the cell membrane, 2014, WO2014179331A2.
J. H. Jeoung, M. Bommer, T. Y. Lin, H. Dobbek, Visualizing the substrate-, superoxo-, alkylperoxo-, and product-bound states at the nonheme Fe(II) site of homogentisate dioxygenase, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2013, 110, 12625-12630.
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- Institute for Biochemistry Und Biology / AG Biochemie / Arnimallee 14
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- Financial Assistant
- Office Manager
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- Expertise: Solid State NMR Spectroscopy, Supramolecular Protein Assemblies
- Research Interests
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- Expertise: Surface Science, Nanoparticles, Electrochemistry
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- Research Interests / Development of New Analytical Methodology and Instrumentation for X - Ray Spectroscopy and Microscopy
R. Schiwon, K. Klingan, H. Dau, C. Limberg, Shining light on integrity of a tetracobalt-polyoxometalate water oxidation catalyst by X-ray spectroscopy before and after catalysis, Chemical Communications 2014, 50, 100-102.
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- Expertise: Biological Chemistry, Photoswitchable Kinases
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L. M. Yates, D. Fiedler, A stable pyrophosphoserine analog for incorporation into peptides and proteins, ACS Chemical Biology 2016, 11, 1066-1073.
A. Klauss, M. Haumann, H. Dau, Alternating electron and proton transfer steps in photosynthetic water oxidation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2012, 109, 16035-16040.
V. Živanović, G. Semini, M. Laue, D. Drescher, T. Aebischer, J. Kneipp, Chemical mapping of Leishmania infection in live cells by SERS microscopy, Analytical Chemistry 2018, 90, 13, 8154-8161.
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- Expertise: Optimal Experimental Design, Kinetic Parameter Estimation, Reactive Flow Simulation in CFD
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- Expertise: Data Analytics and Machine Learning, Novel Materials
J. M. Lorenzi, T. Stecher, K. Reuter, S. Matera, Local-metrics error-based Shepard interpolation as surrogate for highly non-linear material models in high dimensions,The Journal of Chemical Physics 2017, 147(16), 164106.
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- Researcher
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- Vice Spokesperson
D. Stöppler, C. Song, B.-J. van Rossum, M.-A. Geiger, C. Lang, M. A. Mroginski, A. P. Jagtap, S. T. Sigurdsson, J. Matysik, J. Hughes, H. Oschkinat, Dynamic nuclear polarization provides new insights into chromophore structure in phytochrome photoreceptors, Angewandte Chemie 2016, 128, 16251-16254.
E. Siebert, M. Horch, Y. Rippers, J. Fritsch, S. Frielingsdorf, O. Lenz, F. Velazquez Escobar, F. Siebert, F. Lendzian, M. A. Mroginski, I. Zebger, P. Hildebrandt, Resonance Raman spectroscopy as a novel tool to monitor the active site of [NiFe] hydrogenases: new insights into structure and reactivity, Angewandte Chemie 2013, 52, 5162-5165.
UniSysCat researcher Maria Andrea Mroginski is convinced: catalysts have enormous potential in the fight against the climate crisis. Elena Matera asked her about her research on catalysts for sustainable energy production.
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- Expertise: Theoretical Chemistry, Quantum Chemistry, Energetics
- Research Interests / Development and Applications of Quantum Chemical Methods to Calculate NMR and EPR Parameters
M. Kaupp, D. Danovich, S. Shaik, Chemistry is about energy and its changes: a critique of bond-length/bond-strength correlations, Coordination Chemical Reviews 2017, 344, 355-362.
S. Ghassemi Tabrizi, V. Pelmentschikov, L. Noodleman, M. Kaupp, The Mössbauer-parameters of the proximal cluster of membrane-bound hydrogenases revisited. A density-functional theory study, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 2016, 12, 174-187.
M. Parthey, M. Kaupp, Quantum-chemical insights into mixed-valence systems: within and beyond the Robin-Day scheme, Chemical Society Reviews 2014, 43, 5067-5088.
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- Department of Chemistry, TU Berlin / Institute of Chemistry
A. Indra, P. W. Menezes, K. Kailasam, D. Hollmann, P. Strasser, M. Schröder, A. Thomas, A. Brückner, M. Driess, Nickel as a co-catalyst for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution on graphitic-carbon nitride (sg-CN): What is the nature of the active species?, Chemical Communications 2016, 52, 104-107.
P. W. Menezes, A. Indra, N. R. Sahraie, A. Bergmann, P. Strasser, M. Driess, Cobalt-manganese-based spinels as multifunctional materials that unify catalytic water oxidation and oxygen reduction reactions, ChemSusChem 2015, 8, 164-171.
G. Tan, T. Szilvási, S. Inoue, B. Blom, M. Driess, An elusive hydridoaluminum(I) complex for facile C-H and C-O bond activation of ethers and access to its isolable hydridogallium(I) analogue: syntheses, structures, and theoretical studies, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2014, 136, 9732.
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- Expertise: Computational Chemistry, Theoretical Spectrocopy
M. Horch, L. Lauterbach, M. A. Mroginski, P. Hildebrandt, O. Lenz, I. Zebger, Reversible active site sulfoxygenation can explain the oxygen tolerance of a NAD+-reducing [NiFe] hydrogenase and its unusual infrared spectroscopic properties Journal of the American Chemical Society 2015, 137, 2555-2564.
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- Group Leader
- Research Interests
UniSysCat group leader Peter Neubauer has won Agilent's Thought Leader Award, which is endowed with 1.9 million US Dollars. We asked him, how this award will impact his research in UniSysCat.
T. Kurt, A.-M. Marbà-Ardébol, Z. Turan, P. Neubauer, S. Junne, V. Meyer, Rocking Aspergillus: morphology-controlled cultivation of Aspergillus niger in a wave-mixed bioreactor for the production of secondary metabolites, Microbial Cell Factories 2018,17 (1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12934-018-0975-y
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- Expertise: Theoretical Photophysics and - Chemistry
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- Expertise: Flow Chemistry, Carbohydrate Chemistry, Automation
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- Expertise: Homogeneous / Heterogeneous Tandem Systems
S. Reschke, S. Mebs, K. G. V. Sigfridsson-Clauss, R. Kositzki, S. Leimkühler, M. Haumann, Protonation and sulfido versus oxo ligation changes at the molybdenum cofactor in xanthine dehydrogenase (XDH) variants studied by X-ray absorption spectroscopy, Inorganic Chemistry 2017, 56, 2165-2176.
P. Schrapers, T. Hartmann, R. Kositzki, H. Dau, S. Reschke, C. Schulzke, S. Leimkühler, M. Haumann, Sulfido and cysteine ligation changes at the molybdenum cofactor during substrate conversion by formate dehydrogenase (FDH) from Rhodobacter capsulatus, Inorganic Chemistry 2015, 54, 3260-3271.
T. Hartmann, S. Leimkühler, The oxygen-tolerant and NAD+-dependent formate dehydrogenase from Rhodobacter capsulatus is able to catalyze the reduction of CO 2 to formate, FEBS Journal 2013, 280, 6083-6096.
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- Group Leader
- Research Interests
C.-Y. Huang, A. Bonasera, L. Hristov, Y. Garmshausen, B. M. Schmidt, D. Jacquemin, S. Hecht, N,N'-Disubstituted indigos as readily available red-light photoswitches with tunable thermal half-lives, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2017, 139, 15205.
The Einstein Professorship of chemist Stefan Hecht strengthens Berlin's material sciences: with his team, he researches new materials with improved properties.
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- Expertise: Organometallic Chemistry and Homogeneous Catalysis
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F.-J. Schmitt, Z.Y. Campbell, M.V. Bui, A. Hüls, T. Tomo, M. Chen, E.G. Maksimov, S.I. Allakhverdiev, T. Friedrich, Photosynthesis supported by a chlorophyll f-dependent, entropy-driven uphill energy transfer in Halomicronema hongdechloris cells adapted to far-red light, Photosynthesis Research 2019, 139(1-3):185-201.
N.N. Sluchanko, Y.B. Slonimsky, T. Friedrich, E.G. Maksomov, Topology of the OCP-FRP protein complex topologies suggest a mechanism for controlling high light tolerance in cyanobacteria, Nature Communications 2018, 9(1):3869.
S. Wilkening, F.-J. Schmitt, M. Horch, I. Zebger, O. Lenz, T. Friedrich, Characterization of Frex as an NADH sensor for in vivo applications in the presence of NAD+ and at various pH valuesm, Photosynthesis Research 2017, 133(1-3): 305-315.
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- Department of Biology and Biochemistry
P. Fricke, V. Chevelkov, M. Zinke, K. Giller, S. Becker, and A. Lange, Backbone assignment of perdeuterated proteins by solid-state NMR using proton-detection and ultrafast magic-angle spinning, Nature Protocols, 2017, 12, 764-782.
C. Schlesiger, L. Anklamm, W. Malzer, R. Gnewkow, B. Kanngießer, A new model for the description of X-ray diffraction from mosaic crystals for ray-tracing calculations, Journal of Applied Crystallography 2017, Vol. 50, 1490-1497.