Spindle pole body bridge on the front cover
HITS scientists Musa Özboyaci and Prof. Rebecca Wade (MCM group) have performed calculations that help to understand the process of cell …
How Human Cells Can Dissolve Damaging Protein Aggregates
Heidelberg researchers decode fundamental mechanism using in-vitro experiments Cellular repair systems can dissolve aggregated proteins and now Heidelberg researchers have successfully …
International Summer Science School 2015 at HITS
Once again HITS welcomes two students in the framework of the International Summer Science School Heidelberg (ISH). The project allows young …
A warm welcome to Sebastian Sturm!
Sebastian Sturm from the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Leipzig has joined the group to work on the fitting of data …
Revealing the behaviour of von Willebrandt Factor through experiments and simulations
Dr. Camilo Aponte-Santamaria has recently published three papers revealing the behaviour of the von Willebrandt factor. The work describes a new …
The reactivity of click-chemistry isomers revealed by QM calculations!
In this study Wagner et al. systematically quantified the reactivity of newly discovered TCO* conformers with tetrazines in comparison to other …
How Complex Problems Become Simple
Mathematician Anna Wienhard is the new Research Group Leader at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS). In addition to her …
SCO Scientists: “Best Lecture” at KIT Computer Science
For their lecture “Introduction to Bioinformatics for Computer Scientists”, SCO group members Alexandros Stamatakis, Andre Aberer, Tomas Flouri, Alexey Kozlov, Kassian …
Congratulations Xiaofeng Yu
We would like to congratulate Xiaofeng Yu who successfully defended his PhD thesis today! Congratulations! The whole MCM group wishes him …
Rescuing Proteins from Collapse
One of the cornerstones of structural biology envisions that the structure of a molecule is tightly related to its function. The …