birtehoecker.bsky.social
birtehoecker.bsky.social
birtehoecker.bsky.social
@birtehoecker.bsky.social
Biochemist at Bayreuth University, Germany, interested in protein evolution & design
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🚨 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
November 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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📣New CRC 1357 Publication: The Key to Enzymatic Degradation of Polybutylene Terephthalate (PBT): Influence of Semicrystalline Properties on Degradation
doi.org/10.1002/cssc...
The Key to Enzymatic Degradation of Polybutylene Terephthalate (PBT): Influence of Semicrystalline Properties on Degradation
This study demonstrates that enzymatic degradation of polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) can be achieved by tuning PBT's semicrystalline properties and incubation conditions. Polymers with a high conte....
doi.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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📣New CRC 1357 Publication: Congrats to Onur Turak, Protein Design @birtehoecker.bsky.social, & co-authors and their new article: A third type of PETase from the marine Halopseudomonas lineage
Structure & sequence features of type III PETases reported!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A third type of PETase from the marine Halopseudomonas lineage
The enzymatic degradation of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) offers a sustainable solution for PET recycling. Over the past two decades, more than 100 PETases have been characterized, primarily exhi...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 30, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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In collaboration with @birtehoecker.bsky.social, we’ve unlocked enzymatic activity in a minimal de novo TIM barrel by designing a custom lid for catalysis! 🧵👇
#ProteinDesign #EnzymeDesign

Customizing the Structure of a Minimal TIM Barrel to Create a De Novo Enzyme
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Customizing the Structure of a Minimal TIM Barrel to Craft a De Novo Enzyme
The TIM barrel is the most prevalent fold in natural enzymes, supporting efficient catalysis of diverse chemical reactions. While de novo TIM barrels have been successfully designed, their minimalisti...
www.biorxiv.org
July 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Early bird registration for 𝐄𝐔 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 is open! 🎉🎉🎉

Come join us for three days of protein design fun! (October 20-22, 2025)

Direct registration link: pretix.eu/SBD/RCon2025/
Website: europeanrosettacon.org

We are looking forward to seeing you!

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June 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
We proudly present our GBM-Master awardee 2025: Emma Düthorn. Emma did her thesis in the Mustroph lab and finished 1st in the Bayreuth MSc in Biochemistry & Mol.Biology. We also enjoyed a great GBM lecture by Clara Schroeder (Uni Leipzig) and the Bayreuth JuniorGBM summer party! @gbmev.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Two great weeks at the beautiful UNSW campus in Sydney come to an end - lots of fun discussions with the Curmi lab about protein motors and how to design artificial ones!
April 13, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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
March 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Meet our three poster prize winners that were awarded by GBM president Harald Kolmar: Benedict Wolf (Heidelberg), Julian Beck (Bayreuth) and Lisa Schmidt (Berlin). Thank you
@febsopenbio.bsky.social for supporting us!
March 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Congratulations Dorothee! Laudatio given by Janosch Hennig, co-organizer of the meeting.
March 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Feodor-Lynen-Lecture delivered by Tanja Kortemme (UCSF) at the Mosbacher Kolloquium. Congratulations!
March 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Join us for the #GBMLunch
📅 February 12 🕛 12:00 PM
Lukas Milles @lfmilles.bsky.social from the Gene Center of LMU & MPI of Biochemistry, Munich will be presenting on:

“Reconstructing biological function with de novo protein design”

The session will be chaired by @birtehoecker.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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📣 Save the dates 📅

We are organizing a Benzon Symposium on "Protein structure prediction and design" with what I think is an amazing set of speakers

Meeting will take place in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 on Sept. 1–4, 2025, and abstract submission will open in March (benzon-foundation.dk/benzon-sympo...)
December 13, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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Registration is open: 76. Mosbacher Kolloquium "AI-driven (r)evolution in structural biology & protein design" from 20.03.2025–22.03.2025
mosbacher-kolloquium.org
Early registration: January 31, 2025
Poster abstracts: January 31, 2025
Please RT!
December 3, 2024 at 2:42 PM