Jan Mathony
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Jan Mathony
@jmathony.bsky.social
Scientist with a passion for Synbio | Protein engineering | Optogenetics | ML

www.niopeklab.de/mathony-lab/
🎉🎉 congrats Michael!!
September 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Happy to hear that, thank you!
August 22, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Thanks Julian!
August 5, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Congrats Michael, great work as always!
June 20, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Find a longer thread about our work here:
bsky.app/profile/niop...
Inspired by how nature evolves trigger responsiveness through alternating pressures, we are excited to present POGO-PANCE and RAMPhaGE:

Phage-assisted evolution platforms for engineering allosteric protein switches under dynamic selection.

Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Phage-Assisted Evolution of Allosteric Protein Switches
Allostery, the transmission of locally induced conformational changes to distant functional sites, is a key mechanism for protein regulation. Artificial allosteric effectors enable remote manipulation...
doi.org
June 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Huge congrats to all authors, especially to co-first authors @ann-sophiekroell.bsky.social and Kira Hoffmann, who did an outstanding job!
May 3, 2025 at 11:03 AM
In line with recent work by Bugaj and colleagues, who pioneered the thermal programming of protein localization and signaling using BcLOV4 (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), our result highlight LOV domains as versatile thermoreceptors.
Precision control of cellular functions with a temperature-sensitive protein - Nature Methods
Temperature-sensitive proteins would enable the remote control of cellular functions deep within tissues, although few such proteins have been characterized. Melt is a protein that reversibly clusters...
www.nature.com
May 3, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Finally, we also show efficient thermal protein control using another (chemo-)receptor domain as insert. Our work expands thermogenetics to the allostreric control of proteins.
May 3, 2025 at 11:03 AM
The insertion of our LOV2 variants into transcription factors, Cas9 and an RNA-binding protein enables the thermogenetic control of various cellular processes. We expect the approach to be easily tranferrable to the various AsLOV2-based tools out there.
May 3, 2025 at 11:03 AM
It was a pleasure to meet all of you and discuss science! Many thanks again for the invitation.
April 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM