Prof. Dr. Wilfried Weber, INM – Leibniz-Institut für Neue Materialien gGmbH

Prof. Dr. Wilfried Weber

Scientific Director Management Board
Phone: +49 (0)681-9300-520

Curriculum Vitae

Since 2023      

Scientific Director of INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials and Professor (W3) for New Materials at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany


2019 – 2023      

Founding Scientific Director of the Cluster of Excellence CIBSS – Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies


2009 – 2023     

Full Professor of Synthetic Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Germany


2008 – 2009     

Group Leader, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland


2008     

Co-founder of BioVersys GmbH, now BioVersys AG


2006 – 2008    

Group Leader, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zurich


2003 – 2005  

Postdoc, Institute of Biotechnology, ETH Zurich


2003 – 2005  

Doctoral Studies, Institute of Biotechnology, ETH Zurich with Prof. Martin Fussenegger


2000 

Diplôme d’Ingénieur en Biotechnologie, Ecole Supérieure de Biotechnologie de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France


Publications

2024
Engineering Material Properties of Transcription Factor Condensates to Control Gene Expression in Mammalian Cells and Mice

Fischer, Alexandra A. M. | Robertson, Hanah B. | Kong, Deqiang | Grimm, Merlin M. | Grether, Jakob | Groth, Johanna | Baltes, Carsten | Fliegauf, Manfred | Lautenschlaeger, Franziska | Grimbacher, Bodo | Ye, Haifeng | Helms, Volkhard | Weber, Wilfried

Small , 2024, xxx (xxx), 2311834.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/smll.202311834

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Lighting the way: recent developments and applications in molecular optogenetics
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OptoREACT: Optogenetic Receptor Activation on Nonengineered Human T Cells

Armbruster, Anja | Ehret, Anna K. | Russ, Marissa | Idstein, Vincent | Klenzendorf, Melissa | Gaspar, Denise | Juraske, Claudia | Yousefi, O. Sascha | Schamel, Wolfang W. | Weber, Wilfried | Hörner, Maximilian

ACS Synthetic Biology , 2024, 13 (3), 752-762.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssynbio.3c00518

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Design of a Biohybrid Materials Circuit with Binary Decoder Functionality

Mohsenin, Hasti | Wagner, Hanna J. | Rosenblatt, Marcus | Kemmer, Svenja | Dreppe, Friedel | Huesgen, Pitter | Timmer, Jens | Weber, Wilfried

Advanced Materials , 2024, 36 (14), 2308092.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adma.202308092

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An engineered surrogate poly(A) tail to wag translation initiation
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PenTag, a Versatile Platform for Synthesizing Protein-Polymer Biohybrid Materials

Mohsenin, Hasti | Pacheco, Jennifer | Kemmer, Svenja | Wagner, Hanna J. | Höfflin, Nico | Bergmann, Toquinha | Baumann, Tim | Jerez-Longres, Carolina | Ripp, Alexander | Jork, Nikolaus | Jessen, Henning J. | Fussenegger, Martin | Köhn, Maja | Timmer, Jens | Weber, Wilfried

Advanced Functional Materials , 2024, xxx (xxx), xxx.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adfm.202308269

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2023
Opto-APC: Engineering of cells that display phytochrome B on their surface for optogenetic studies of cell-cell interactions

Russ, Marissa | Ehret, Anna K. | Hörner, Maximilian | Peschkov, Daniel | Bohnert, Rebecca | Idstein, Vincent | Minguet, Susana | Weber, Wilfried | Lillemeier, Björn F. | Yousefi, O. Sascha | Schamel, Wolfgang W.

Frontiers in Molecular Bioscience , 2023, 10 1-12.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmolb.2023.1143274/full

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Production, Purification and Characterization of Recombinant Biotinylated Phytochrome B for Extracellular Optogenetics

Hörner, Maximilian | Yousefi, O. Sascha | Schamel, Wolfang W. A. | Weber, Wilfried

Bio-protocol , 2023, 10 (5),
https://en.bio-protocol.org/en/bpdetail?id=3541&type=0

Real-time monitoring of cell surface protein arrival with split luciferases

Fischer, Alexandra A. M. | Schatz, Larissa | Baaske, Julia | Römer, Winfried | Weber, Wilfried | Thuenauer, Roland

Traffic , 2023, 24 (10), 453-462.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tra.12908

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Dynamic fine-tuning of CAR-T cell therapy

Trehin, Pierre V.M. | Munoz-Guamuro, Geisler | Weber, Wilfried

Molecular Therapy Oncolytics , 2023, 30 14-15.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2372770523000414?via%3Dihub

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