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
OptoAssay—Light-controlled dynamic bioassay using optogenetic switches

Urban, Nadine | Hörner, Maximilian | Weber, Wilfried | Dincer, Can

Science Advances , 2024, 10 (39), eadp0911.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp0911

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Signal-Amplifying Biohybrid Material Circuits for CRISPR/Cas-Based Single-Stranded RNA Detection

Mohsenin, Hasti | Schmachtenberg, Rosanne | Kemmer, Svenja | Wagner, Hanna J. | Johnston, Midori | Madlener, Sibylle | Dincer, Can | Timmer, Jens | Weber, Wilfried

Advanced Materials Technologies , 2024, xxx (xxx), xxx.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/admt.202400981

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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, 20 (38), 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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An engineered surrogate poly(A) tail to wag translation initiation
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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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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, 34 (35), 2308269.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adfm.202308269

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2023
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

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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