University of Basel

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Research Group Gillingham

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Fluorescent image showing multinucleated cells

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The cell, 2023, coloured

After review hell, Dr Coomar finally published his PhD work in Molecular Cancer Research - featured on the cover and highlighted by the editors!
Dr Caspar Vogel wearing his hat after his successful oral examination. The hat looks like a football helmet dyed in the colors of the Seahawks.

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Congratulations, Dr Schneider and Dr Vogel!

In mid of June, our pseudo-siamese twins, Lukas Schneider and Caspar Vogel defended their PhD thesis and were rewarded their doctor title.

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Welcome to Giulia!

A new postdoc from Italy is joining our research group, continuing the work of Dr. Marta Piquero and Caspar Vogel.

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Welcome to our new group members

Our research group has grown again, by three more people
Mount Moléson

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Recharing the batteries

Summertime means swimming in the Rhine and sunbaths, and the approaching Herbstsemester it also means it is group trip time in the Gillingham Group

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Regio Symposium 2022

Nearly the full Gillingham group went to this year's Regio Symposium in Liestal.
A teaser image showing the degradation process of a protein-of-interest fusion with MGMT via the 26S proteasome. Depicted are also two pseudosubstrates benzylguanine and lomeguatrib.

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Nature's kill switch for protein degradation

Are you looking to get rid of overexpressed proteins in cells?
Graphical abstract of the publication.

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What have you done now? How chemical reactions can affect codon readout in DNA encoded libraries.

Chemical reactions can not only be detrimental to the amount of useful DNA in an encoded library, they also can affect the information that is stored.
A reaction scheme showing the diversification of DNA-bound 2-(N'-isopropanylidenehydrazineyl)pyridine with a generic β-oxoboronic acid

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Bringing boron containing heterocycles to DNA encoded libraries

The new paper of Pinwen Cai and Lukas Schneider in Organic Letters shows how an unusual heterocyclic scaffold was made available in DNA encoded libraries. Check it out!
A image of our group trip showing most of the group members in climbing gear.

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A new group trip, at last

After a break of two years for reasons, we finally went out again on a group trip. The new group image shows the stark difference between our group from back then now - we doubled in size!
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