BIOSS-A

Membranes and protein–lipid interactions in signalling
BIOSS-B

Oncogenic signalling
BIOSS-C

Re-building & biotechnology
BIOSS

From Analysis
to Synthesis
Prof. Dr. Barbara Di Ventura

Prof. Dr. Barbara Di Ventura
Institute of Biology II, University of Freiburg
hired as BIOSS Professor
+49 761 203 2764
10 selected publications
- Synthetic biology landscape and community in Germany
N. Krink, A. Löchner, H. Cooper, C. Beisel, B. Di Ventura, German Association for Synthetic Biology – GASB e.V
Biotechnology Notes, 2021 - Engineering AraC to make it responsive to light instead of arabinose.
Romano E, Baumschlager A, Akmeriç EB, Palanisamy N, Houmani M, Schmidt G, Öztürk MA, Ernst L, Khammash M, Di Ventura B.
Nat Chem Biol. 2021 Jul;17(7):817-827 - finDr: A web server for in silico D-peptide ligand identification.
Engel H, Guischard F, Krause F, Nandy J, Kaas P, Höfflin N, Köhn M, Kilb N, Voigt K, Wolf S, Aslan T, Baezner F, Hahne S, Ruckes C, Weygant J, Zinina A, Akmeriç EB, Antwi EB, Dombrovskij D, Franke P, Lesch KL, Vesper N, Weis D, Gensch N, Di Ventura B, Öztürk MA.
Synth Syst Biotechnol. 2021 Nov 23;6(4):402-413. - A Novel Nanobody Precisely Visualizes Phosphorylated Histone H2AX in Living Cancer Cells under Drug-Induced Replication Stress.
Moeglin E, Desplancq D, Stoessel A, Massute C, Ranniger J, McEwen AG, Zeder-Lutz G, Oulad-Abdelghani M, Chiper M, Lafaye P, Di Ventura B, Didier P, Poterszman A, Weiss E.
Cancers (Basel). 2021 Jul 1;13(13):3317. - Split intein-mediated selection of cells containing two plasmids using a single antibiotic.
Palanisamy N, Degen A, Morath A, Ballestin Ballestin J, Juraske C, Öztürk MA, Sprenger GA, Youn JW, Schamel WW, Di Ventura B (2019).
Nat Commun 10(1):4967. - Context-dependent activity of A domains in the tyrocidine synthetase.
Degen A, Mayerthaler F, Mootz HD, Di Ventura B (2019).
Sci Rep. 9(1):5119. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-41492-8. - Optogenetic control of nuclear protein export.
Niopek D, Wehler P, Roensch J, Eils R, Di Ventura B (2016).
Nat Commun. 7:10624. doi: 10.1038/ncomms10624 - Backbone circularization of Bacillus subtilis family 11 xylanase increases its thermostability and its resistance against aggregation.
Waldhauer MC, Schmitz SN, Ahlmann-Eltze C, Gleixner JG, Schmelas CC, Huhn AG, Bunne C, Büscher M, Horn M, Klughammer N, Kreft J, Schäfer E, Bayer PA, Krämer SG, Neugebauer J, Wehler P, Mayer MP, Eils R, Di Ventura B (2015).
Mol Biosyst. 11(12):3231-43 - Engineering light-inducible nuclear localization signals for precise spatiotemporal control of protein dynamics in living cells.
Niopek D, Benzinger D, Roensch J, Draebing T, Wehler P, Eils R, Di Ventura B (2014).
Nat Commun. 5:4404.
Highlighted in F1000 - Creating functional engineered variants of the single-module non-ribosomal peptide synthetase IndC by T domain exchange.
Beer R, Herbst K, Ignatiadis N, Kats I, Adlung L, Meyer H, Niopek D, Christiansen T, Georgi F, Kurzawa N, Meichsner J, Rabe S, Riedel A, Sachs J, Schessner J, Schmidt F, Walch P, Niopek K, Heinemann T, Eils R, Di Ventura B (2014).
Mol BioSyst. 10(7):1709-18.