Research Training Group 2900 "nanomaterials@biomembranes"

From 26 to 28 August 2026, the international symposium “Spatial-temporal interrogation of living membranes” was held at the Biology department in Osnabrück. It was organised by Research Training Group 2900 in collaboration with the Summer School of the MemBioMed Master’s program.

They are studying membrane biology at three locations in Europe: After spending time in Nice and Genoa, participants in the MemBioMed program will now spend a semester in Osnabrück. The program kicks off with a summer school featuring an international symposium.

Congratulations to Steffen Harms from the Piehler group on receiving the  GBM Innovation Award for Young Scientists for his contribution: "Reconstitution of Active Signaling Complexes in Live-Cell Nanopatterning". The award was presented at the 28^th Meeting on Signal Transduction in Weimar. Steffen's [...]

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 [...]

How do multiprotein complexes responsible for processing immunological responses assemble inside cells? To address this challenge, researchers from the RTG2900 engineered high-density nanodot arrays using capillary nanostamping and tailored surface chemistry. By capturing transmembrane adaptors, [...]

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 [...]