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Whether dormant bacteria begin to reproduce is no accident. Rather, they are simply waiting for a clear signal from a single protein in the cell interior. The Sauer lab have now deciphered the molecular mechanisms behind this.

The article "The in silico human surfaceome" has recently been published in PNAS and now has been recommended by the F1000 member Alejandro Schaffer to be of special significance in its field.

Congrats to the Robinson lab and Maik Müller for getting their paper out about the molecular mechanims of action of thanatin, natural occuring antimicrobial peptide that kills Gram-negative bacteria.

Together with the rest of IMSB we moved our lab to new a building, which meant 2-fold increase in office and lab space. We now got space to separate office and lab work, so we now can enjoy a coffe while doing bioinformatic analysis without atleast fearing that the coffe is contaminated. The move also meant we now got dedicated space for clinical proteomic work. You can now find us in the HPM2 building on the D floor for the clinical facilities and F floor for the research facilities. 

Our work on the identification of small molecule modulators of diguanylate cyclase by FRET-based high-throughput-screening was published in ChemBioChem.  

We welcome back Alex in our lab. She has been a Masters' student and now she will stay with as a research intern. Good luck, Alex!

Together with the rest of IMSB we moved our lab to a new building. For us it meant a physical move of one floor down and a few meters back, but it gave use the opportunity to put together a nice, big, open-space lab and equip it with all new instruments and items. You can find us now in HPM2, D24. Our mass specs joined the mass specs of the other IMSB groups in a massive underground lab. Watch some pictures of the progress