CellNanOs | Center for Cellular Nanoanalytics Osnabrück

The concluding meeting of the DFG-funded Major Instrumentation Initiative  Innovative Experimental Optical Microscopes for Research was hosted by the iBiOs in the CellNanOs Building. During a lunch-to-lunch symposium, members of the consortium presented their experience with cutting-edge light [...]

With its state-of-the-art imaging infrastructure, the CellNanOs offers unique opportunities to both researchers and students at Osnabrück University. Now, the Minister President of Lower Saxony was able to see this for himself during a guided tour. 

Sensitized triplet–triplet annihilation upconversion (sTTA-UC) can convert two low-energy photons into one of higher energy, but its use in water is often limited by the poor solubility of the required chromophores. Researchers from the RTG2900 overcome this challenge by encapsulating a red-to-blue [...]

Once again this year, the Biology department offered interested pupils exciting insights on the University Information Day with presentations, hands-on stands, taster lectures and guided tours of the Center for Cellular Nanoanalytics (CellNanOs). 

Newly developed physical microscopy methods with nanomaterials for cell biology were demonstrated at the open day of the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR). Federal Science Minister Dorothee Bär was one of the first to take the opportunity to see the interdisciplinary [...]

On July 21 and 22, around 25 specialists visited the state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary CellNanOs Research Center to undergo further training in the field of electron microscopy. 

Ceramides are an essential class of lipids found in all eukaryotic cells, playing a crucial role in maintaining the structure of the plasma membrane. Researchers from the Möller and Fröhlich labs have resolved the structure of the enzyme responsible for ceramide synthesis in yeast.

Researchers of the iBiOs Facility at the CellNanOs developed a new microscope combining quantitative single-molecule imaging (SMI) with structured illumination microscopy (SIM). The work has been published in “Nature Communications”.

A team led by Osnabrück biologist Prof. Dr. Roland Brandt (Neurobiology division) has developed a method that can be used to identify promising substances for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease in living cells.

Great success for CellNanOs researchers: the German Research Foundation (DFG) will fund the research training group "nanomaterials@biomembranes" with 6.9 million euros starting in October 2023.

Osnabrück University will receive more than €11.5 million for the new Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1557. The DFG is thus funding joint research by numerous researchers around biochemist Prof. Dr Christian Ungermann.

After years of tedious work, the Ungermann and the Möller labs together solved the structure of the multiprotein HOPS complex, uncovering key mechanistic features of endosomal vesicle tethering and fusion.

How does the heart stay in rhythm? A study published in the renowned journal Nature Communications by researchers around Heiko Harten from the Zoology division shows that the enzyme ‘neprilysin 4’ plays a crucial, previously unknown role.