Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung

🧿The color blue is as coveted as it is rare in nature. 🔵🔵Ribbon-tailed stingrays get their intense blue spots from the regular 3D arrangement of specific skin cells that reflect blue wavelengths.🔵🔵 Scientists envision mimicking this mechanism to produce colors without pigments and dyes. 🎨 https://lnkd.in/dNWZJTeT Venkata A. Surapaneni, Michael J Blumer, Kian Tadayon, Ashlie J. McIvor, Stefan Redl, Hanne-Rose Honis, Frederik H. Mollen, Shahrouz Amini, mason dean City University of Hong Kong Technische Universität Dresden Medizinische Universität Innsbruck

Excited to share our latest work by Anna-Dorothea Heller in PLOS One, together with Angelo Valleriani, showing a #3Dcomputational model based on evolutionary #gametheory to simulate #bone #remodeling. IMPRS on Multiscale Bio-Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Biogipuzkoa, Ikerbasque 👉 https://bit.ly/3S94HZm

Synthetic #nanomaterials with ad hoc properties and shapes from sugars? ❗ New insights into how complex sugars aggregate and arrange themselves make mimicking their properties a more likely scenario.❗ Scientists have: 1) synthesized unprecedentedly long chains of sugars (specifically: #cellulose, #chitin, and #xylan). The key addition: #phosphates (to keep the building blocks apart) 2) used #enzymes to remove the phosphates and assemble these sugar chains into different shapes (plate-like, spiral, and hexagonal) 3) observed the sugar chains with powerful microscopes Results: ➡️The type& position of the sugars in the chain directly affects its final shape. ➡️Enzymes can trigger the formation of sugar structures 📰 https://lnkd.in/e5GQN8ct Paper in Angewandte Chemie by Jaap van Trijp, Nives Hribernik, Jia Hui Lim, Marlene Dal Colle, Yadiel Vázquez Mena, Yu Ogawa, Martina Delbianco

Pfauenfedern oder Schmetterlingsflügel, wie die des Tagpfauenauges, faszinieren durch ihre Farbenpracht. Verantwortlich für diesen schillernden Effekt sind jedoch keine Pigmente, sondern winzige Strukturen, die das Licht auf besondere Weise reflektieren. Auch einige Bakterien haben das Talent, ähnlich glitzernde und schillernde Strukturen zu bilden. #Bakterienkolonien mit dieser Begabung haben Forschende vom Exzellenzcluster „Balance of the Microverse" der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena nun genauer unter die Lupe genommen. Das internationale Forschungsteam untersuchte darin, welcher Mechanismus diese #Bakterienarten befähigt, Licht zu reflektieren, ohne Pigmente zu verwenden. An der Studie beteiligt waren Forschende vom Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung, dem Leibniz-Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, der Universiteit Utrecht, der University of Cambridge und dem NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research. Im Rahmen der Studie wurde die DNA von 87 gefärbten und 30 farblosen Bakterienstämmen sequenziert und Gene identifiziert, die für diese Kolonien verantwortlich sind. Wie das Team in der Fachzeitschrift „Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences“ (PNAS) berichtet, wurde mithilfe Künstlicher Intelligenz ein Modell entwickelt, das auf der Grundlage der DNA vorhersagen kann, welche Bakterien diese Farben produzieren. Mehr dazu hier: https://lnkd.in/eMubPgew Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung #bioökonomie #dasistbioökonomie #bioökonomieforschung

🎉 Breaking Ground in Biotech! 🎉   We're thrilled to announce that GlycoUniverse GmbH & Co. KGaA has won the Brandenburg Innovation Award 2024 (Brandenburger Innovationspreis) for their groundbreaking Glyconeer® 3.1! This revolutionary sugar synthesizer is transforming the biotech industry by making the production of complex carbohydrate chains faster, more affordable, and environmentally friendly.   With its roots in the cutting-edge research of the Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung lead by Peter Seeberger, Glyconeer® 3.1 is a testament to the incredible impact of scientific innovation.   Congratulations to the entire GlycoUniverse team around Kim Le Mai Hoang, Ph.D. for this well-deserved recognition! Your work is a shining example of how research can lead to transformative technologies that benefit the pharma and biotech sectors.   We're proud that several MPG (Generalverwaltung der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft München) patents contributed to this success, underscoring the value of our research in real-world applications.   Here's to many more innovations that will shape the future of biotechnology! 🚀🌟   Find out more in our news: https://lnkd.in/dhEG2hk3   #Innovation #Biotech #Pharma #GlycoUniverse #MaxPlanck #Glyconeer #BrandenburgInnovationAward #ResearchToMarket

The new course Python for Statistics is open for registration up to the deadline August 25, 2024. To register, just email python_for_statistics@AppliedStatistics.de with subject 'Registration'. The course takes place on September 2-3-4, 2024 online, from 9am to 4pm every day. For a description of the course, see below or visit https://lnkd.in/e3Wbs_A6 ** COURSE DESCRIPTION ** This course will delve into the development of straightforward, simple and effective Python scripts working on a case study. Participants will get the opportunity to implement statistical analysis while simultaneously learning Python. The course includes hands-on examples and notebooks. It’s designed to be highly interactive, featuring in-class exercises and group work whenever possible. Participants should bring a background in statistics and interest in seeing their knowledge applied to solve concrete statistics questions. We will learn how to plot and describe the data, how to manipulate basic data-structures in Python, how to write functions that compute confidence intervals, perform hypothesis testing, linear regression, contingency tables, and bootstrapping. It is suited for people with statistics knowledge, interested in improving their programming skills in Python. The course will take place remotely, you will have your own Jupyter notebook to work with and code while we do the course. At the end of the “Python for Statistics” course, you will have your own functions and routines to perform your analysis without the help of other software packages. A bit of practice in any programming language is necessary for a smooth participation. Knowledge of basic statistics is a prerequisite to participate. However, this course is not suited for experts in programming or in Python. After the class, the participants will receive a full set of Jupyter notebooks containing all solutions to the exercises, including additional information and methods. In addition, they will receive a set of short summaries about the statistics methods covered during the classes. Participants actively taking part in the course will receive a participation certificate.

🔋 Die Anmeldung für das Sodium Battery Symposium ist gestartet! Vom 23.-25.9. wird es im Technologiepark Adlershof 31 Vorträge renommierter Wissenschaftler:innen und Unternehmen zum Stand der Forschung im Schwerpunktthema Natrium-Batterien geben. Außerdem wird Raum für Diskussionen und Networking geschaffen. Jetzt Tickets sichern unter folgendem Link: 👉 Registrierung: https://buff.ly/4c1CsmT 👉 Seite der Veranstaltung mit allen Infos https://buff.ly/3wOJD2Y #battery #internationalsodiumbatterysymposium #berlin #NaBatteries #humboldtuniversität #chemistry Technologiepark Adlershof Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin Philipp Adelhelm

Save the date for the #exhibition #opening at #Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin on July 12th, 7 pm! Under the new discursive #platform »More Than Human: Design after the Anthropocene«, created by Claudia Banz, Heidi Jalkh has been invited to curate a project in collaboration with co-curators Gisela Pozzetti and Valentina Aliaga Vargas. 🌎 The »Matter of South - Biomaterial Cultures from Latin America« project will explore how #biomaterial initiatives in this region harness local culture and #biodiversity to create new material cultures. This endeavor also aims to reframe our relationship with the immediate #environment while questioning and providing #alternatives to the established extractivist model. ✍️ The project features a series of discussions focused on drafting the »Matter of South manifesto«, hands-on workshops, and a pop-up exhibition. These events will tap into the characteristics of biomaterials initiatives, highlighting the aspects that shape Latin American biomaterial #identity, enriched by the region's diverse contexts and #bio-cultural #diversity. 🗺️ At the center of this exhibition will be »The Biomaterial #Archive«, an #installation featuring samples and an interactive #map that illustrates the diverse landscape of Latin American biomaterials. This #collaborative, #interdisciplinary, and independent #network aims to document and showcase projects, groups, and individuals involved in biomaterial and #biomanufacturing processes throughout Latin America. 📆 The exhibition will be on display until August 26th, 2024. A two-day international symposium on this topic will be held on July 17th-18th. More info coming soon: https://lnkd.in/dzfJf_23

How can #bacteria shimmer? And how can we use their mechanisms to envision #sustainable, #pigment-free colors? ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eAz6xXqY Scientists sequenced a wide range of bacterial DNA and identified several proteins associated with the formation of #structuralColor = iridescent hues that change depending on the internal, periodic arrangement of nano-scale building blocks and their interference with light. (🫧Think of a soap bubble or the wings of a peacock).🦚 The team wants to take color out of the lab and into the industry: bacteria take up little space, are easy to feed, and multiply quickly. We could grow them to produce colors and ditch dyes and pigments that require a lot of energy and water, and are sometimes toxic. Aldert Zomer, Colin Ingham, F.A. Bastiaan von Meijenfeldt, Alvaro Escobar Doncel, Gea T. van de Kerkhof, Raditijo Hamidjaja, Sanne Schouten, Lukas Schertel, Karin H. Müller, Laura Catón, Richard Hahnke, Henk Bolhuis, Silvia Vignolini and Bas E. Dutilh Utrecht University, University of Cambridge Friedrich Schiller University Jena PNAS Nexus PNAS journal

Ludovico Aloisio from Politecnico di Milano presented his research on thiophene-based #bioelectronic & #biocompatible materials.