Successful day welcoming prospective high school students & giving them a glimpse into courses & research life at LMU. They visited our lab, learned about protein design & saw protein purification up close. A big thanks to the organizers and our lab for their effort✨

Exciting updates! 🧬 We’re delighted to welcome Joanna as our new postdoctoral researcher, and Ferdinand for a short term postdoctoral internship. Looking forward to an exciting period ahead! 😁

🗓️ Save the Date! The 5th European RosettaCon – Crossing Boundaries with Protein Design will take place in Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹 🗓️ October 28–30, 2026 Join the protein design community for an inspiring scientific meeting at the intersection of innovation and design.

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and happy holidays from all of us in the lab! Thank you for a year full of science, collaboration, and curiosity. Here’s to a restful break and an exciting year ahead!

AI4PD 2025 (“the Latin American RosettaCon”) ended with huge success! Thanks to EMBO, RosettaCommons, all sponsors, co-organizers César Sarmiento and @chris_bahl and especially to all speakers and amazing instructors, including our Hubert. What a week! #EMBOaiProteinDesign

🚨 Registration open! Join us next April on the Belgian coast 🇧🇪 for the FEBS Advanced Course “Generative AI for Protein Engineering” 🧬 A unique, hands-on week dedicated to thinking and designing like a protein engineer. 👉 Info & apply: …proteinengineering2026.febsevents.org #ProteinDesign

A warm welcome to Jan, who’s joining us for his master’s thesis! 🎓 We’re excited to have you on board and can’t wait to see your ideas come to life in the lab. #NewInLab

Spooky science vibes only! 🎃🔬 Had a blast at our joint pumpkin carving evening with the Lamb Lab — creativity and chaos in equal measure. Thanks to everyone who joined for laughs, snacks, and seasonal spirit! 🍂

Big week at #RosettaConEurope in Ljubljana! 🇸🇮 Anna and Miguel impressed with fantastic talks, and Ho Yeung took home the poster prize! 🎉Kudos to @AjasjaLjubetic and @dominikgront for putting together such an inspiring and well-run conference.

Prost to science and good company! 🥨🍻 Our lab swapped pipettes for pretzels and celebrated Oktoberfest in true Munich style. Great food, great laughs, and even greater colleagues!

Thrilled to have Dr. Armando Hernández-García all the way from Mexico with us for the year! Looking forward to great science and good times together

A little late to share 📸 but here’s a summer highlight — our REU intern Khuong Pham presented his poster at #RosettaCon2025 in Seattle 🌞 Super proud of his work! Also a few snaps from the conference itself ✨ #ProteinDesign #RosettaCon25

Excited to welcome Jakob Kreutz, who just started his Bachelor’s internship with us! 🚀 Looking forward to seeing his curiosity and fresh ideas in action.

warm welcome to Zexian Zhou, who started her Master’s internship in our lab! 🧬 Thrilled to have you on board and can’t wait to see your contributions.

Big congratulations to Seif for successfully defending his Master’s thesis! Your dedication and hard work truly paid off — well done! Excited to see what comes next for you. 👏🎓

Great times at the joint BBQ with the Lamb group! 🔥🍗 Good food, great conversations, and even better company. Science + summer vibes = perfect combo! ☀️

Our Lab turned 4!!! 🏔️ We hiked, raced down the Rodelbahn like kids, and wrapped it all up with a perfect grill party 🍔🌭 Great day with even greater people — cheers to the best team!

Huge congratulations to Sophia on completing her internship! Wishing you all the best for what comes next! 🌟

🎓 Huge congrats to Daniel on submitting his Bachelorsthesis and successfully defending it! 🥳 Wish you all the best! 👨‍🔬💥

A warm welcome to Khuong Pham, our 2025 Rosetta REU intern! 🧬💻 Ready to dive into the protein design playground with us—let’s build some molecules and memories!

Guess who’s back—with a PhD badge! 🎓🔥 Welcome home, LiuRong! Excited to see you take your protein wizardry to the next level. 🧪🧠

Big congrats to Ekaterina for wrapping up her Bachelor’s thesis! 🧬🎓 All the best for what’s next 🍾

🎉 Major achievement for #LMU in the Excellence Strategy: All seven proposed Clusters of Excellence have successfully passed the review process and will be funded for seven years as of 2026. An outstanding result! 🎉 #ExcellenceCluster #LMUMunich #research Read more here: www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

Check out the recording of the latest webinar, and 33 other webinars hosted by The Protein Society. TPS webinars are always free to join and view. proteinsociety.org/webinars

www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/... Excited to be part of this initiative! Stay tuned for more soon !!!

A big welcome to Dr. Kevin O’Brien, our newest postdoc!!!! We’re thrilled to have his brains (and bytes) powering up the lab.

Welcome to our newest lab member Daniel who will be doing his Bachelors thesis. We’re thrilled to have you on board!

Our lab took a little break from the bench to enjoy Starkbierfest together — strong beer, stronger lab spirit! Prost to good company and even better science ahead!

Harris has just wrapped up his Bachelor’s thesis in our lab — great to see the project come together. Thanks for your contribution, and best of luck with what’s next!

Great talks & discussions at the 76th Mosbacher Kolloquium last week - in particular fantastic Lynen Lecture by Tanja Kortemme @kortemmelab.bsky.social and Eduard-Buchner award lecture by Dorothee Kern! And great to see so many old and new friends. @gbmev.bsky.social

Had a great time at the Mosbacher Colloquium 2025—fantastic science, engaging discussions, and lots of inspiration. Shoutout to Anna and Hubert for taking the stage and board with their work!!!

Great energy at #WinterRosettaCon25 in Boston! Our @bhoomikabasu presented her latest PhD advances, had amazing discussions and amazing talks fuelled new ideas. Great to reconnect with friends in science and see the community pushing boundaries !!!

Now online in @naturesmb.bsky.social and just in time for WRCon25! It was a great journey with a fantastic team across boarders that survived several moves. A big thank you to all involved, and a special shoutout to Neil @kinglabipd.bsky.social 🧵 to come. Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Glimpses of a fantastic High School Day at LMU Munich! 🎉 It was incredible to see so many curious minds exploring the world of protein design. A huge thank you to the organizers and everyone who worked hard behind the scenes to make this day a success!

Big welcome to Matthias and Matias joining our lab! Matthias is kicking off his F-Praktikum, while Matias is diving into his Master’s thesis research. Excited to have both on board and looking forward to their contributions!

JiaJia presented her poster at the AAAS Annual Meeting this week. Proud of her for sharing our research on such a prestigious platform. Well done, Jiajia! #AAAS2025

Congratulations to Luise on successfully completing her Bachelor’s thesis in our lab! Her hard work, curiosity, and dedication have been inspiring. Wishing her all the best in her next chapter!

Targeting protein–ligand neosurfaces with a generalizable deep learning tool | @Nature - MaSIF-neosurf can design binders for protein-ligand complexes, targeting neosurfaces (i.e., ligand-induced structural changes on the protein surface) Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...