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SUMMARY:IMX Seminar Series - Materials Talking to Cells
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Tanja Weil\, Director Max Planck Institute\, Mainz Germa
 ny\nWouldn't it be great if we could design soft materials that actively i
 ntegrate into cells or tissues and stimulate cellular responses? Can we im
 agine materials that instruct cells to grow\, proliferate or induce apopto
 sis? What would such materials look like and would we be able to learn the
  language of cells and translate it into communicating materials? In my ta
 lk\, I will first discuss how to design structurally precise polymeric nan
 ostructures using the DNA origami technique. I will then present the ident
 ification of bioactive peptide nanostructures that stimulate the growth of
  neuronal cells without growth factors or the concentration of viruses at 
 the cell membrane\, which is of interest for applications in regenerative 
 medicine and gene therapy. Controlled formation of peptide nanostructures 
 in the cytoplasm by chemical cascade reactions opens new avenues as metabo
 lic inhibitors for cancer therapy.\n\nBio: Prof. Dr. Tanja Weil joined the
  Max Planck Society in 2017 as one of the directors of the Max Planck Inst
 itute for Polymer Research\, heading the division “Synthesis of Macromol
 ecules”. She studied chemistry (1993–1998) at the TU Braunschweig (Ger
 many) and the University of Bordeaux I (France) and completed her PhD at t
 he MPI for Polymer Research under the supervision of K. Müllen. In 2003\
 , she received the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society. From 2002 to
  2008 she managed different leading positions at Merz Pharmaceuticals GmbH
  (Frankfurt) from Section Head Medicinal Chemistry to Director of Chemical
  Research and Development. In 2008 she accepted an Associate Professor pos
 ition at the National University of Singapore. Tanja Weil joined Ulm Unive
 rsity as Director of the Institute of Organic Chemistry III / Macromolecul
 ar Chemistry in 2010. She has received numerous competitive funding at bot
 h national and international level including a Synergy Grant of the Europe
 an Research Council (ERC). She serves in many advisory boards and steering
  committees: she is a member of the senate of the German Research Foundati
 on\, a member of the senate of the Leibniz Association and of the Leibniz 
 evaluation panel. Tanja is an associate editor for JACS and a member of th
 e editorial advisory board of ACS Nano. Her scientific interests focus on 
 innovative synthesis concepts to achieve functional macromolecules and hyb
 rid materials to solve current challenges in biomedicine and material scie
 nce.
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69966497404
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