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"Dr. Lukas Stratmann was awarded a Young Researcher Prize at the 4th CRC1093 International Symposium "Supramolecular Chemistry meets Biology" at University Duisburg-Essen for an outstanding publication (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 4939) within the field of the symposium's topics. In the VIP research article, precise intermolecular distances were measured in higher-order G-quadruplex structures such as dimers or sandwich complexes. The Clever Lab congratulates!
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A second award at the CRC1093 International Symposium goes to the CleverLab! Dr. Irene Regeni won a Poster Prize for her work on metallo-supramolecular helicates for G-qaudruplex DNA recognition. Congrats to Irene!"
July 2021
We are proud to welcome a new group member in the Clever Lab: Laura Neukirch joined as a fast-track PhD student and is funded by RESOLV. We are looking forward to work with you.
May 2021
The Clever Lab is welcoming a new coworker. Chak-Shing Kwan joined the group as a postdoc. He was awarded with a prestigious Humboldt fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. We wish him all the best and success in his research in the Clever Lab.
April 2021
We are happy to welcome a new member in the Clever Lab: PhD student Elie Benchimol. We wish him all the best for his research and we are looking forward to work with you!
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December 2020
„We say goodbye, thank you and wish all the best to Dr. Sonja Pullen who leaves the Clever Lab for starting her independent research career as a tenure track Assistant Professor at the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam. Lots of luck and success, Sonja! Read more here
October 2020
Dr. Sonja Pullen was featured in this research spotlight from the TU Dortmund. The interview is about her research topic on light-driven catalysis and her international research experience. Dr. Pullen also talks about the Marie Skłodowska-Curie-Fellowship (MSCA) from the European Union which made her stay in the Clever Lab possible. Read more here
We are happy to welcome three new members in the Clever Lab. Dr. Ananya Baksi (right) joins our group as a postdoc, PhD student Alexandre Walther (middle) and Dr. David Van Craen (left) as a young investigator who is conducting independent research on anion-binding helicates.
August 2020
The Clever Lab congratulates our PhD student Irene Regeni for being one of the poster prize winners of the virtual ISMSC poster session 2020, where she presented her work on multy-cavity coordination cages.
We have to say goodbye to Dr. Haeri Lee, who starts her independend career at Hannam University in Daejeon, South Korea. All the best! We will be missing you!
May 2020
Part of our JSPS-funded collaboration with the group of Keisuke Umakoshi, Nagasaki University, Japan, has just been accepted for publication: S. Horiuchi, C. Matsuo, E. Sakuda, Y. Arikawa, G. H. Clever, K. Umakoshi, Dalton. Trans. 2020, 49, 8472. (HOT article).
March 2020
Congratulations to Irene Regeni for being selected to attend this year's 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting! In her PhD thesis, Irene works on dye-functionalized coordination cages and their application to DNA secondary structure recognition.
December 2019
The Clever Lab wishes Merry Chistmas!!!
A brand-new JASCO CPL300 is now installed in our Lab, the first one in Germany! It enables us to measure Circularly Polarized Luminescence (CPL) of chiral compounds, cages and so on. The new machine is funded within the RESOLV Cluster of Excellence.
November 2019
And again we are proud to welcome three new group members who will strengthen the Clever Lab: Dr. Pedro Montes Tolentino, postdoc from Mexico (left) and our new PhD students Hannah Kuckling and Simon Kotnig.
October 2019
We are happy to welcome three new members in the Clever Lab: PhD student Shota Hasegawa from Japan and our bachelor students Rameeya Muraleetharan and Marie Langenberg. We are looking forward to work with you!
August 2019
Congratulations to our PhD student Lukas Stratmann who was awarded a poster prize at the ICBIC19 in Interlaken, Switzerland, the biggest international conference on bioinorganic chemistry. He presented his project on EPR-based intermolecular distance measurements in higher-order DNA G-quadruplex structures which he is working on in collaboration with the group of JProf. Kasanmascheff from Physical Chemistry.
July 2019
See this recent highlight of the Clever Lab research activities in self-assembly and fullerene binding in the UniZet magazine (in German).
June 2019
Our PhD student Bin Chen won a IUPAC poster prize at ISMSC 2019 in Lecce, Italy, for his work on fullerene binding bowls recently published in JACS.
The Clever Lab congratulates!
May 2019
Wie macht sich die Natur Übergangsmetall-Kationen zu Nutze? Welche Relevanz haben Selten Erdmetalle wie Europium und Gadolinium in biologischen Markierungsexperimenten und der medizinischen Bildgebung? Welche spannende Chemie kann in künstlichen Nanokäfigen auf Basis von Galliumkomplexen durchgeführt werden?
Hierzu konnte US Chemiker Ken Raymond in den letzten zwei Wochen als erster “Mercator Fellow” des GRK2376, in welchem sich Wissenschaftler von Ruhr-Uni Bochum und TU Dortmund mit chemischen Reaktionen in nanometergroßen Hohlräumen und Kompartimenten beschäftigen, spannende Antworten liefern.
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March 2019
Congratulations to PhD student Philip Punt who was awarded with the poster prize at the RESOLV Klausurtagung 2019 in Harsewinkel-Marienfeld for his work on “Imidazole-modified metal-binding DNA G-quadruplexes – a step towards artificial metalloenzymes”. In his work he could show how the introduction of imidazole residues in DNA G-quadruplexes leads to tunable metal-binding G-quadruplexes that are able to catalyze various reactions including Michael additions as well as Diels-Alder reactions.
February 2019
Congratulations to PhD student Irene Regeni who was awarded with a poster prize at SupraChem 2019 in Würzburg. Her work on dye-based coordination cages was awarded in the category "Molecular Cages, Switches and Machines" and the prize offered from Springer was presented by Prof. Dr. Markus Albrecht, Editor of J. Incl. Phenom. Macrocycl. Chem..
We regularly conduct diffraction experiments at biomolecular synchrotron beamline P11@DESY for structure elucidation of large metallo-supramolecular assemblies. Two publications in Angew. Chem. on a new M8L16 catenane and cage-in-ring pseudo rotaxane were chosen as science highlight in the 2018 DESY annual report (p. 32 - 33)
December 2018
We congratulate Irene Regeni who was awarded a poster prize on the Supe@Lyon 2018, a popular international symposium on supramolecular chemistry. She presented her interesting work with the title "Self-assembled [Pd2L4] coordination cages based on well-known organic dyes." The prize was handed over by Nobel laureate Sir Fraser Stoddart!
We are happy to welcome two new members in the Clever Lab: Dr. Sudhakar Ganta, postdoc coming from the IIT in Madras, India and our guest scientist Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Eri Sakuda from Nagasaki University in Japan.
Both will work on functional coordination cages.
November 2018
Congratulations to Irene, Soham and Bo for winning the presentation prizes on the first edition of the International Clever Lab Conference!
October 2018
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September 2018
Great news for RESOLV: The joint proposal by RUB and TU Dortmund University was selected by the DFG and the Cluster of Excellence in solvation science will be funded in Germany’s Excellence Strategy for the next seven years.
We happily announce that our recent paper on interpentrated peanut-shaped cages made it on the Front Cover of Angew. Chem.!
We welcome our two new lab members from the south of China: Qianqian Yan, PhD student coming with a CSC scholarship from Fuzhou University (right) and Dr. Kai Wu, postdoc coming from Sun Yat-Sen University (left). Both will work on functional coordination cages.
For this years scientific retreat, the Clever Lab crossed the north see to visit the island of Juist: Great landscapes, intense seminars and a lot of fun!
We are happy to announce that Haeri Lee from Korea starts her postdoc in the Clever Lab. Her expertise is X-ray crystallography and she will work on functionalized coordination cages.
July 2018
The Clever Lab welcomes new postdoc Jacopo Tessarolo from Italy who will work on functionalized cages.
Together with groups from the RUB Bochum, the Clever Lab is part of the new DFG-funded graduate school GRK 2376 "Confinement-controlled Chemistry" which starts from the 1st of July.
June 2018
Our recent publication "Catenation and Aggregation of Multi-Cavity Coordination Cages" (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.) was highlighted by Dr. Emiliano Feresin with a short article on the website of the RESOLV cluster of excellence.
May 2018
Dr. Sonja Pullen started her project entitled „Metal Organic Cages for Catalysis Applications” (short „MOCCA“) that is funded by the European Union within the framework of Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions (MSCA). She will work on functional heteroleptic coordination cages for CO2 reduction.
March 2018
The Clever Lab congratulates Philip Punt for winning a poster prize at the RESOLV retreat 2018. On his poster with the title “Imidazole-modified metal-binding DNA G-quadruplexes - a step towards artificial metalloenzymes” he showed how to create designed coordination environments for metal ions on top of G-quadruplex structures.
Our recent publication "Hierarchical Assembly of an Interlocked M8L16 Container" (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.) was highlighted on the website of the RESOLV cluster of excellence. In a short interview, Guido Clever explains the significance of his new discovery described in this paper.
February 2018
We are excited to announce that our application for the second funding period of the joint project with Prof. Dr. Ricardo Mata, University of Göttingen, within the DFG priority program on Dispersion Interactions (SPP 1807) was successful.
January 2018
The Clever Lab is looking forward to start collecting diffraction data for crystal structure elucidations on its new Bruker D8 Venture single crystal X-ray diffractometer.
We happily acknowledge that our research activities aimed at understanding the formation of monomeric and dimeric palladium cages with banana-shaped ligands have recently received follow-up funding from the DFG.
We welcome our guest scientists Assist.-Prof. Dr. Shinnosuke Horiuchi and Assist.-Prof. Dr. Hironobu Tahara, both from the University of Nagasaki, Japan, in our group.
November 2017
The Clever Lab is looking forward to start its measurements on the new Bruker AV 500 Avance NEO NMR spectrometer.
September 2017
We are excited to start the operation of our new Bruker timsTOF ion mobility mass spectrometer.
The Clever Lab congratulates Irene Regeni for obtaining a PhD scholarship from the German Fonds of the Chemical Industry (FCI Kekulé stipend) to support her work on dye-functionalized coordination cages.
July 2017
We congratulate Marcel Krick who was awarded a poster prize on the ISMSC 2017 in Cambridge, the biggest international symposium on supramolecular chemistry. He presented his work with the title “Endohedral Dynamics of Push-Pull Rotor-Functionalized Cages.“
April 2016
Susanne Löffler won the Young Researcher Award 2016 at the 7th Münster Symposium on Cooperative Effects in Chemistry (MSCEC) for her outstanding publication (JACS 2015, 137, 1060) exhibiting the control of host guest chemistry in supramolecular coordination cages. The Clever Lab congratulates!
2014
Posterpreis für Rongmei Zhu auf dem IRTG Münster-Nagoya Abschlusssymposium, Münster 2014. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
Muxin Han received a 2013 National Award for Outstanding Self-financed Chinese Students Study Abroad by the China Scholarship Council. Congratulations!
Our paper describing the encapsulation of a polyoxometalate was featured in the recent ACS Inorganic Chemistry Virtual Issue on "Inorganic Cages and Containers" 2014.
Guido H. Clever received the 2014 Dozentenpreis (Young Investigator Award) of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI) for excellence in research and teaching.
2013
Some of our papers were featured in the recent ACS Virtual Issue on "Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry" 2013.
Guido H. Clever received one of the ADUC Prizes 2012 (Young Investigator Award) of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) for his work on self-assembled coordination cages.
2012
See our research featured on the Improbable Blog. Actually we are happy to show that our chemistry is amazing but not improbable...
Posterpreis für Muxin Han auf der 16. Wöhlertagung in Göttingen. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
Posterpreis für Muxin Han beim JCF Chemieforum Göttingen. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
1. Posterpreis für Sabrina Freye auf dem SFB 858 Symposium Münster. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
1. Posterpreis für Sabrina Freye auf dem JCF Frühjahrssymposium Rostock. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
Vortragspreis für Sabrina Freye auf dem 8. Koordinationschemietreffen Dortmund. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
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The campus of TU Dortmund University is located close to interstate junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerlandlinie A 45 (Frankfurt-Dortmund) crosses the Ruhrschnellweg B 1 / A 40. The best interstate exit to take from A 45 is "Dortmund-Eichlinghofen" (closer to Campus Süd), and from B 1 / A 40 "Dortmund-Dorstfeld" (closer to Campus Nord). Signs for the university are located at both exits. Also, there is a new exit before you pass over the B 1-bridge leading into Dortmund.
To get from Campus Nord to Campus Süd by car, there is the connection via Vogelpothsweg/Baroper Straße. We recommend you leave your car on one of the parking lots at Campus Nord and use the H-Bahn (suspended monorail system), which conveniently connects the two campuses.
TU Dortmund University has its own train station ("Dortmund Universität"). From there, suburban trains (S-Bahn) leave for Dortmund main station ("Dortmund Hauptbahnhof") and Düsseldorf main station via the "Düsseldorf Airport Train Station" (take S-Bahn number 1, which leaves every 20 or 30 minutes). The university is easily reached from Bochum, Essen, Mülheim an der Ruhr and Duisburg.
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The H-Bahn is one of the hallmarks of TU Dortmund University. There are two stations on Campus Nord. One ("Dortmund Universität S") is directly located at the suburban train stop, which connects the university directly with the city of Dortmund and the rest of the Ruhr Area. Also from this station, there are connections to the "Technologiepark" and (via Campus Süd) Eichlinghofen. The other station is located at the dining hall at Campus Nord and offers a direct connection to Campus Süd every five minutes.
The AirportExpress is a fast and convenient means of transport from Dortmund Airport (DTM) to Dortmund Central Station, taking you there in little more than 20 minutes. From Dortmund Central Station, you can continue to the university campus by interurban railway (S-Bahn). A larger range of international flight connections is offered at Düsseldorf Airport (DUS), which is about 60 kilometres away and can be directly reached by S-Bahn from the university station.
The facilities of TU Dortmund University are spread over two campuses, the larger Campus North and the smaller Campus South. Additionally, some areas of the university are located in the adjacent "Technologiepark".
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