Harnessing Chemistry, Physics and Engineering for a sustainable tomorrow
NUS-LMU-TUM Workshop

Program at the Department of Chemistry, LMU Butenandtstr. 5-13,
Building F, Basement, Butenandt Lecture Hall
Tuesday. April 8^th

2:00 pm - 2:05 pm

Prof. Ivana Ivanović-Burmazović (LMU)
Welcome Words 

2:05 pm - 2:25 pm

Prof. Ning Yan (NUS)
Catalytic valorization of renewable carbons

2:25 pm - 2:30 pm

Discussion

2:30 pm - 2:50 pm

Prof. Frédéric Laquai (LMU)
How the Energetic Landscape in Organic Solar Cells Controls the Device Efficiency

2:50 pm - 2:55 pm

Discussion

2:55 pm - 3:15 pm

Coffee Break

3:15 pm - 3:35 pm

Prof. Ian Sharp (TUM)
Advanced Semiconductors and Engineered Interfaces for Sunlight-to-Chemical Energy Conversion

3:35 pm - 3:40 pm

Discussion

3:40 pm - 3:55 pm

Prof. Aliaksandr Bandarenka (TUM)
Low-cost high-energy aqueous Na/K-ion batteries

3:55 pm - 4:00 pm

Discussion

4:00 pm - 4:15 pm

Dr. Erkan Aydin (LMU)
A Brief Overview of High-Efficiency Perovskite-Based Tandem Solar Cell Research at LMU Munich

4:15 pm - 4:20 pm Discussion

4:20 pm - 4:30 pm

Prof. Ivana Ivanović-Burmazović (LMU)
Decoding Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer: Lessons for Sustainable Energy
Closing Remarks

Nadine Gogolla,Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry

Dissecting the neural circuits of emotion

Prof. Joseph Rogers

Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen

"Discovery of de novo biopharmaceuticals: cyclic peptides and designed proteins"

Prof. Narayanan Ravishankar, Materials Research Centre Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Insights into Nanostructure Growth, Structure and Stability Using Electron Microscopy

Symposium Pharmazeutische Biotechnologie 28./29. April 2025

Veranstaltungsort: MARTINSRIED BMC N01.017

9:00 – 9:40
Prof. Clara Schoeder, Universität Leipzig
New biotechnological and immunological drugs through computational protein design

9:40 - 10:20
Prof. Peter Loskill, Universität Tübingen
Recapitulating Complex Immunocompetent Tissues using Organ-on-chip and Organoid Technologies

10:20 - 11:00
Prof. Sarah Hedtrich, University of British Columbia
Human (Disease) Models To Tackle Inflammatory and Genetic Diseases of Human Epithelia

Symposium Pharmazeutische Biotechnologie 28./29. April 2025

Veranstaltungsort: GROSSHADERN ICEM 0.010

9:00 – 9:40:
Dr. Andrea Schmidts, Technische Universität München
Engineering resilient CAR-T cell therapies

9:40 - 10:20:
Prof. Ulrich Lächelt, Universität Wien
Genome Editing & Nucleic Acid Therapeutics: Platform Technologies for Biomolecular Therapies

10:20 - 11:00:
Prof. Eric Helfrich, Universität Frankfurt
AI-Driven Expansion of Natural Product Biosynthetic Space for the Discovery of Novel Bioactive Molecules

Prof. Dr. Claudio Santi FRSC

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Università degli studi di Perugia, Italien

2008–2024: Zinc Selenates at the Crossroads of Chemical Innovation and Biological Vision

Dr. Alexander Borodavka

 University of Cambridge

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Dr. Roman Tsukanov

University of Göttingen

Fast and multiplexed super-resolution imaging of cells

Jürgen Cox, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry

MaxQuant: Computational proteomics for the masses

Dr. Stefan Berghoff

German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Institute of Neuronal Cell Biology, Technical University Munich

"Brain Cholesterol Metabolism: New Insights and Therapeutic Targets for Neurodegenerative Diseases"

Thomas Ward

Universität Basel

Artificial Metalloenzymes for New-to-Nature Catalysis

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Wünsch, Institut für Pharmazeutische und Medizinische Chemie, Universität Münster

Der Sigma-Rezeptor als Angriffspunkt von Wirkstoffen und Diagnostika im ZNS

Maude Baldwin, Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence

Functional evolution of the taste and digestive system in birds

Prof. Dr. Panče Naumov
Center for Smart Engineering Materials (NYUAD-CSEM), New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE

Dynamic Molecular Crystals – A New Class of Smart Materials

Jeanne Crassous

CNRS Institute de Rennes

Grignard-Wittig Lectureship

Multifunctional helicene-based architectures

PD Dr. Ingrid Tessmer

Rudolf Virchow Center, University of Würzburg

Single molecule studies of DNA repair

Julian Stingele, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Cellular responses to RNA damage

Dr. Vladimir Solozhenko
LSPM - CNRS, Université Sorbonne-Paris-Nord, France

Boron pnictides under high pressure

Dr. Kilian Huber

Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK

"Chemical Biology Strategies for Target Discovery and Validation: Insights from Phenomics, Proteomics, and PROTACs"

Daniel Werz

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Design and Serendipity in Fluorophore Chemistry

Prof. Antônio Otávio de Toledo Patrocínio

Institute of Chemistry, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil

Inorganic photochemistry applied to solar fuels production

Eiji Yashima

National Tsing Hua University

Helical Polymers and Foldamers for the Development of Unique Chiral Materials

Prof. Dr. Markus Sauer

Department of Biotechnology and Biophysics, Biocenter, University of Würzburg

Molecular resolution fluorescence imaging in cells

Susanne Hoffmann, Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence

Applying neurophysiology during field research to study the neural mechanisms of duet singing in birds

Karl Duderstadt, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry

Imaging the machines that reshape and remake chromosomes

Prof. Kevin Pagel

Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin

Fresenius Lecture of the Analytical Chemistry Division of the GDCh

"Infrared Spectroscopy in a Mass Spectrometer – Molecular Fingerprints for Omics Research"

Dr. Pianowski

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Photoswitchable cyclic dipeptides for smart materials and biology

Martin Breugst

Technische Universität Chemnitz

Mechanisms, Applications, Limitations in Iodine Catalysis

Prof. Dr. Achim Schmidtko, Institut für Pharmakologie und Klinische Pharmazie, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main

Polyneuropathien: Ursachen, Therapie

Fumito Saito

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Stable SO Transfer Reagents

Pablo Oteiza, Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence

A conserved algorithm for flow navigation in teleosts

Prof. Ruchi Anand
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Combating ribosomal methyl tranferase based antibiotics resistance: a war at the microscopic level

Prof. Possu Huang 

Stanford University

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Prof. Dr. Igor Schapiro, Fakultät Physik, TU Dortmund

Understanding Photoisomerization - Insights from Hybrid QM/MM Simulations

Brenda Schulman, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry

Regulation by the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System

Prof. Dr. Uwe Ruschewitz
Institut für Anorganische und Materialchemie, Universität zu Köln

Marvelous C2 Chemistry

Dr. Thomas Hanke

Institut für Pharmazeutische Chemie, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

"How macrocyclization contributes to the development chemical probes for understudied kinases"

Xiaosong Xue

Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIOC)

Mechanism and Data Guided Fluorinated Reagent and Reaction Design

Songeziwe Ntsimango

University of Witwatersrand

Towards the synthesis of bicyclo[1.1.0]butanes and the synthesis of N-heterocyclic compounds

Prof Dr. Wonwoo Nam
Department of Chemistry & Nanoscience, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea

Biomimetic Metal-Oxygen Intermediates in Dioxygen Activation and Formation Reactions

Frank Maas & Nathalie Weickgenannt
From the magazine „Angewandte Chemie“

Workshop „Opening the Editor´s Black Box: Insider Tips for Successful Submission”

Prof. Emmanuel Levy

University of Geneva

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Prof. Dr. Nicole Strittmatter 

Technische Universität München

"Deeper insights into drug delivery and metabolism using mass spectrometry imaging"

35. Wiberg-Festvorlesung

Prof. Dr. Felix Tuczek
Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU)

Doing Chemistry with Air: Activating of N2 and O2 in Nature

Ronald Micura

Universität Innsbruck

Challenges in biological RNA chemistry

AC-Symposium

Prof. Eva Hevia, Universität Bern 
“Unleashing the Power of Alkali-metal mediation for arene functionalisation and catalysis”

Dr. Christian Hering-Junghans, Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse, Rostock
"Non-classical Double Bonds - Phosphaalkenes and -alumenes"

Kazushi Mashima

Osaka University

Organosilicon compounds as unique salt-free reducing reagents of metal compounds, generating catalytically active species

Scott Denmark

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Preparative and Mechanistic Studies on Highly Catalytic Allylation of Native Carbohydrates in Water with Indium

Participation is also possible via Zoom:

https://lmu-munich.zoom-x.de/j/69067645481?pwd=BgUcaIUaGN5ZJucW1X4G5WR7cNNr93.1

Meeting-ID: 690 6764 5481

Kenncode: 151286

9.30 am         Prof. Dr. Marc Fontecave (Collège de France, FR)

                     „Sulfur metabolism: more and more iron-sulfur enzymes“

11.00 am      Prof. Dr. Sabine Müller (Universität Greifswald, DE)

                    „From Natural Ribozymes to Engineered RNA Catalysts”

12.00 pm      Prof. Dr. Valérie de Crécy-Lagard (University of Florida, USA)

                    „Decoding tRNA Modification Enzymes: Navigating Paralogs, Pathway Holes, and Functional Divergence"

  2.30 pm      Prof. Dr. Thanasis Gimisis (University Athens, GR)

                    „Synthesis and Study of Glycoside & Nucleoside Derivatives: Challenges & Rewards“

  3.30 pm      Prof. Dr. Julian König (Universität Würzburg, DE)

                    „m6A RNA modification in the coding region triggers translation-dependent mRNA decay“

Prof. Alfred J. Meixner 

University of Tübingen

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Prof. Dr. Dominique J. Lunter, Pharmazeutische Technologie und Biopharmazie, Universität Tübingen

Gute Emulgatoren? Böse Emulgatoren? Ein Update aus der Wissenschaft

Prof. Matthias Gehringer

Medizinische Fakultät, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

"Covalent Protein Kinase Inhibitors: Exploring Understudied Targets and Unconventional Binding Modes"

Prof. Monica Morales-Masis, University of Twente, Netherlands

From Polycristalline to Epitaxial Metal Halide Perovskites Via Laser Deposition

Treffen mit Studierenden der Tsinghua University Beijing

9:00, Leipelt Seminarraum (Vortrag, Dept. Chemie)

Prof. Hendrik Zipse, LMU München

Research and Teaching in the Department of Chemistry at LMU

Prof. Andrea Rentmeister, LMU München

RNA at the interface of chemistry and biochemistry                            

11:15, Leipelt Seminarraum (Votrag, Fak. für Chemie und Pharmazie) 

Prof. Lei Jiao, Tsinghua University, Beijing

Research and Teaching in the Department of Chemistry at Tsinghua University

Prof. Martin Biel, LMU München

Ion channels: from molecules to therapy - Supported by LMU-CSC program

14:15, Baeyer Hörsaal (Votrag, Dept. Chemie)                     

Prof. Oliver Trapp, LMU München

Origin of Life

Prof. Frédéric Laquai, LMU München

Emerging Semiconductors for Solar e-conversion

17:15, Wieland Hörsaal (Votrag, Dept. Chemie)               

 Prof. Lei Jiao, Tsinghua University, Beijing

N-Boryl Pyridyl Anion Chemistry

Ass. Prof. Dr. David Konrad

University of Vienna, Pharmaceutical Sciences

"Characterizing vulnerabilities associated with phenotypic cell state transitions in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer cell lines as a foundation for drug development"

Akademische Abschlussfeier 2025 des Department für Pharmazie

Festvortrag
Prof. Dr. Martin Schulz
„Macht Schokolade schlau?“

Verleihung von Preisen und Auszeichnungen
• Herbert-Marcinek-Preis
• Lesmüller-Preis
• Daiichi Sankyo Master-Preis
• AbbVie-Promotionspreis

Verabschiedung der Absolventinnen und Absolventen

AC-Symposium

Prof. Karl Mandel, FAU, Erlangen-Nürnberg
"Supraparticles - versatile material design for highly functional systems"

Prof. Stephan Hohloch, Universität Innsbruck
"Early Transition Metals in Catalysis and Small Molecule Activation“

Jun.-Prof. Markus Suta, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf
"An illuminating journey through luminescent materials - A junction between Chemistry and Physics"