Prof. Dr. Torsten John

Profil

Derzeitige Stellung	Professor W-1 und Äquivalente
Fachgebiet	Theoretische Biologische Chemie,Biophysikalische Chemie
Keywords	Peptide Fibrils, Biomaterials, DNA Nanotechnology, Self-assembly, Computational Design
Auszeichnungen	2022: Young Scientist at 70th and 71st Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 2021: Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2021: Finalist for Leibniz Dissertation Award, Leibniz Association 2020: Junior Researcher Award, Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering (IOM) 2019: Young European Talent Program (YET) in Maastricht, Netherlands 2018: Awarded as an Element of the IUPAC Periodic Table of Younger Chemists 2018: Endeavour Research Fellowship, Australian Government 2018: Finalist for EuChemS European Young Chemist Award (EYCA) 2017: SciFinder/CAS Future Leaders Award, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) 2016: Early Career Researcher Award, Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) 2016: PhD Fellowship, Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) 2015: DFG Graduate School Member, CRC TRR 102 iRTG ‚Polymers: random coils and beyond’ 2014: Summer Research Fellowship, The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia 2013: Fellow of the Life Science College, German Academic Scholarship Foundation 2013: ISAP Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) 2013: NESACS-GDCh Student Exchange, Boston and New Haven, USA 2012: DFG Research Fellowship, Graduate School BuildMoNa, Leipzig University 2012: RISE Worldwide Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) 2012: Study Scholarship, Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) 2009: GDCh Graduate Award, German Chemical Society (GDCh)

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

Land	Deutschland
Ort	Bremen
Universität/Institution	Constructor University
Institut/Abteilung	School of Science

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

Prof. Dr. Mark Bathe	Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Prof. Dr. Tanja Weil	Abteilung für Synthetische und Makromolekulare Chemie, Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Mainz
Prof. Dr. Mark Bathe	Abteilung für Synthetische und Makromolekulare Chemie, Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Mainz
Beginn der ersten Förderung	01.01.2021

Programm(e)

2020	Feodor Lynen-Forschungsstipendien-Programm für Postdocs

Publikationen (Auswahl)

2024	Stephen O. Aderinto, Torsten John, Abdulmujeeb Onawole, Raphael Peter Galleh, Jim A. Thomas: Iridium(III)-based minor groove binding complexes as DNA photocleavage agents. In: Dalton Transactions, 53, 2024, 7282–7291
2024	Jeffrey Gorman, Stephanie M. Hart, Torsten John, Maria A. Castellanos, Dvir Harris, Molly F. Parsons, James L. Banal, Adam P. Willard, Gabriela S. Schlau-Cohen, Mark Bathe: Sculpting photoproducts with DNA origami. In: Chem, 10, 2024, 1553–1575
2022	Xiao Wang, Shanshan Li, Hyungmin Jun, Torsten John, Kaiming Zhang, Hannah Fowler, Jonathan P. K. Doye, Wah Chiu, Mark Bathe: Planar 2D wireframe DNA origami. In: Science Advances, 8, 2022, eabn0039
2021	Hyungmin Jun, Xiao Wang, Molly F. Parsons, William P. Bricker, Torsten John, Shanshan Li, Steve Jackson, Wah Chiu, Mark Bathe: Rapid prototyping of arbitrary 2D and 3D wireframe DNA origami. In: Nucleic Acids Research, 49, 2021, 10265-10274