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

2022
The living interface between synthetic biology and biomaterial design

Liu, A. P. | Appel, E. A. | Ashby, P. D. | Baker, B. M. | Franco, E. | Gu, L. | Haynes, K. | Joshi, N. S. | Kloxin, A. M. | Kouwer, P. H. J. | Mittal, J. | Morsut, L. | Noireaux, V. | Parekh, S. | Schulman, R. | Tang, S. K. Y. | Valentine, M. T. | Vega, S. L. | Weber, Wilfried | Stephanopoulos, N. | Chaudhuri, O.

Nature Materials , 2022, 21 (4), 390-397.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41563-022-01231-3

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Multiplexed biosensor for point-of-care COVID-19 monitoring: CRISPR-powered unamplified RNA diagnostics and protein-based therapeutic drug management

Johnston, M. | Ceren Ates, H. | Glatz, R. T. | Mohsenin, H. | Schmachtenberg, R. | Göppert, N. | Huzly, D. | Urban, G. A. | Weber, Wilfried | Dincer, C.

Materials Today , 2022, 61 129-138.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mattod.2022.11.001

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Spatially Defined Gene Delivery into Native Cells with the Red Light-Controlled OptoAAV Technology

Hörner, M. | Weber, Wilfried

Current Protocols , 2022, 2 (6),
https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cpz1.440

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Designing electrochemical microfluidic multiplexed biosensors for on-site applications

Glatz, R. T. | Ates, H. C. | Mohsenin, H. | Weber, Wilfried | Dincer, C.

Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry , 2022, 414 (22), 6531-6540.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00216-022-04210-4

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Shedding light on current trends in molecular optogenetics

Fischer, A. A. M. | Kramer, M. M. | Radziwill, G. | Weber, Wilfried

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology , 2022, 70
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2022.102196

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Benchmarking of Cph1 Mutants and DrBphP for Light-Responsive Phytochrome-Based Hydrogels with Reversibly Adjustable Mechanical Properties

Emig, R. | Hoess, P. | Cai, H. | Kohl, P. | Peyronnet, R. | Weber, Wilfried | Hörner, M.

Advanced Biology , 2022, 6 (7),
https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adbi.202000337

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Biosensor-Enabled Multiplexed On-Site Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Antibiotics

Ates, H. C. | Mohsenin, H. | Wenzel, C. | Glatz, R. T. | Wagner, H. J. | Bruch, R. | Hoefflin, N. | Spassov, S. | Streicher, L. | Lozano-Zahonero, S. | Flamm, B. | Trittler, R. | Hug, M. J. | Köhn, M. | Schmidt, J. | Schumann, S. | Urban, G. A. | Weber, Wilfried | Dincer, C.

Advanced Materials , 2022, 34 (2),
https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202104555

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2021
Cross-TCR antagonism revealed by optogenetically tuning the half-life of the TCR ligand binding

Yousefi, O. S. | Ruggieri, M. | Idstein, V. | von Prillwitz, K. U. | Herr, L. A. | Chalupsky, J. | Köhn, M. | Weber, Wilfried | Timmer, J. | Schamel, W. W. A.

International Journal of Molecular Sciences , 2021, 22 (9),
https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms22094920

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Synthetic Biology: Emerging Concepts to Design and Advance Adeno-Associated Viral Vectors for Gene Therapy

Wagner, H. J. | Weber, Wilfried | Fussenegger, M.

Advanced Science , 2021, 8 (9),
https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.202004018

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Liquid-liquid phase separation of light-inducible transcription factors increases transcription activation in mammalian cells and mice

Schneider, N. | Wieland, F. G. | Kong, D. | Fischer, A. A. M. | Hörner, M. | Timmer, J. | Ye, H. | Weber, Wilfried

Science Advances , 2021, 7 (1),
https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abd3568

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