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

2018
Dual-controlled optogenetic system for the rapid down-regulation of protein levels in mammalian cells

Baaske, J. | Gonschorek, P. | Engesser, R. | Dominguez-Monedero, A. | Raute, K. | Fischbach, P. | Müller, K. | Cachat, E. | Schamel, W. W. A. | Minguet, S. | Davies, J. A. | Timmer, J. | Weber, Wilfried | Zurbriggen, M. D.

Scientific Reports , 2018, 8 (1),
https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-32929-7

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Synthetic Biology Makes Polymer Materials Count

Beyer, H. M. | Engesser, R. | Hörner, M. | Koschmieder, J. | Beyer, P. | Timmer, J. | Zurbriggen, M. D. | Weber, Wilfried

Advanced Materials , 2018, 30 (21),
https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.201800472

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Generic and reversible opto-trapping of biomolecules

Beyer, H. M. | Thomas, O. S. | Riegel, N. | Zurbriggen, M. D. | Weber, Wilfried | Hörner, M.

Acta Biomaterialia , 2018, 79 276-282.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2018.08.032

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A Green-Light-Responsive System for the Control of Transgene Expression in Mammalian and Plant Cells

Chatelle, C. | Ochoa-Fernandez, R. | Engesser, R. | Schneider, N. | Beyer, H. M. | Jones, A. R. | Timmer, J. | Zurbriggen, M. D. | Weber, Wilfried

ACS Synthetic Biology , 2018, 7 (5), 1349-1358.
https://www.dx.doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.7b00450

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Optogenetic control of focal adhesion kinase signaling

Hörner, M. | Chatelle, C. | Mühlhäuser, W. W. D. | Stocker, D. R. | Coats, M. | Weber, Wilfried | Radziwill, G.

Cellular Signalling , 2018, 42 176-183.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cellsig.2017.10.012

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OptoBase: A Web Platform for Molecular Optogenetics

Kolar, K. | Knobloch, C. | Stork, H. | Žnidarič, M. | Weber, Wilfried

ACS Synthetic Biology , 2018, 7 (7), 1825-1828.
https://www.dx.doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.8b00120

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Data-Driven Modeling of Intracellular Auxin Fluxes Indicates a Dominant Role of the ER in Controlling Nuclear Auxin Uptake

Middleton, A. M. | Dal Bosco, C. | Chlap, P. | Bensch, R. | Harz, H. | Ren, F. | Bergmann, S. | Wend, S. | Weber, Wilfried | Hayashi, K. I. | Zurbriggen, M. D. | Uhl, R. | Ronneberger, O. | Palme, K. | Fleck, C. | Dovzhenko, A.

Cell Reports , 2018, 22 (11), 3044-3057.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2018.02.074

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Genetic Code Expansion Method for Temporal Labeling of Endogenously Expressed Proteins

Schneider, N. | Gäbelein, C. | Wiener, J. | Georgiev, T. | Gobet, N. | Weber, Wilfried | Meier, M.

ACS Chemical Biology , 2018, 13 (11), 3049-3053.
https://www.dx.doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.8b00594

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Characterization of the synthetic biology-inspired implementation of a materials-based positive feedback loop

Wagner, H. J. | Engesser, R. | Ermes, K. | Geraths, C. | Timmer, J. | Weber, Wilfried

Data in Brief , 2018, 19 665-677.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2018.05.074

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A two-step approach for the design and generation of nanobodies

Wagner, H. J. | Wehrle, S. | Weiss, E. | Cavallari, M. | Weber, Wilfried

International Journal of Molecular Sciences , 2018, 19 (11),
https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms19113444

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