Aquarray wins a major EU grant
Congratulations to the whole team of Aquarray, especially Simon and Anna, for winning an important EU grant (SME Instruments) of about 1,7M€! This grant will accelerate Aquarray´s development of precision medicine products and will help enter the market of Personalized Medicine. It is especially exciting to receive such an award where success rate is just about 3-5%...
https://www.clustercollaboration.eu/news/h2020-call-proposals-sme-instrument
KIT is one of 11 Universities of Excellence
We are happy that KIT was selected as one of the 11 Universities of Excellence. A total of approximately €148 million will be available annually for all Universities of Excellence.
I congratulate all our colleagues at the KIT and especially all the students, postdocs and TAs who worked in our group and made their contribution to this success.
Other Universities of Excellence include: RWTH Aachen University, Berlin University, University of Bonn, Dresden University of Technology, University of Hamburg, Heidelberg University, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, University of Konstanz, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Technical University of Munich, University of Tübingen.
New group picture
Our new group picture for 2019 is out! As evidenced by the crowd - we keep on growing:
3rd place at the NEULAND - Innovation Competition goes to... Maximilian Benz
We are glad to congratulate Max Benz for receiving the 3rd prize for his chemBIOS approach at the NEULAND Innovation Competition at the KIT yesterday.
Professor Zhu joins our lab as a visitor
Welcome!
Nature Communications paper out!
Check out our paper in Nature Communications: “Marrying chemistry with biology by combining on-chip solution-based combinatorial synthesis and cellular screening”. Great paper highlighting the importance of interdisciplinary research. Congrats Max and all co-authors!
Teaching old materials new tricks!
Check out our new paper in AFM. We demonstrate rapid photodegradability of commonly used polymethacrylate hydrogels without the need to incorporate additional photolabile functionalities.
Special issue of Advanced Materials about KIT
Check this excellent special issue of Advanced Materials about materials research at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Lots of exciting research!
Levkin Lab at SLAS Europe in Barcelona 2019
Great talks by Simon, Anna and Max at SLAS Europe in Barcelona!
CliKIT
Please, read about the experiences of our former intern student Helena Valquier-Flynn from Doane University during her stay at KIT here.
Annas, Tinas and Konnys paper out in Small!
Please, check out our newest paper on tumor spheroid formation in 100 nL droplets!
The Levkin Lab at the 6th International Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials
Yanxi, Alisa and Pavel were representing the Levkin lab with posters and talks at the 6th International Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials in Sitges, Spain.
Patterned Slippery Surfaces
Find out more how to use patterned slippery surfaces to manipulate the paths of droplets and sort them according to size in our recent publication in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.
Biofilm Bridges
Recently we discovered that bacteria grown on micropatterns of repellent and adhesive properties (SLIPS+adhesive) form biofilm bridges, thin biofilm strings, connecting separated biofilm clusters. It is interesting that bacteria form networks of such biofilm bridges and these bridges are packed with highly metabolically active bacteria. Here is our paper in Advanced Science about this novel phenomenon. Congratulations to Wenxi Lei and coauthors. Great collaboration with Thomas Schwartz´s group at KIT.
Cellular High Content Imaging in a Miniaturized Array Format
Check this very interesting poster of our collaborators at GlaxoSmithKline who used #Aquarray Droplet Microarrays (DMA) for extremely miniaturized high-content cellular screenings. Very nice comparison of microtiter plates with culture in 100 nL droplets on DMAs. Let us know if you want to try such Droplet Microarrays for your cell screening experiments.
"Design and Application of Photoresponsive Hydrogels"
Lei's and Johannes' Review of that name has just been accepted to Advanced Materials!
"High‐Throughput Combinatorial Synthesis of Stimuli‐Responsive Materials"
Alisa Rosenfeld's review on this matter got published in Applied Bosystems! Congratulations!
Progress Report on Slippery Surfaces published in Advanced Functional Materials
Our new Progress Report titled "Slippery Lubricant-Infused Surfaces: Properties and Emerging Applications" can be found online here. It is a "trans-generational" effort with co-authors including current (Dorothea Paulssen) and former members (Junsheng Li and Erica Ueda) of the Pavel Levkin lab!
Farid successfully defended his PhD!
During his PhD Farid published 5 papers (2 more to follow) and presented work at 9 international conferences. Congratulations on a successful PhD defense!