News and Group Activities

News and Group Activities

On Friday, November 22, 2024 we had the pleasure to welcome Dr. Michael Christiansen from the Medical Microsystems Laboratory at ETH Zürich at Biointerfaces Lab. What an inspiring lecture! Thank you for your visit Michael! We are looking forward to deepen our collaboration and to work together on n...

On 20th of November 2024 the first "Kinderuni" took place at FAU Erlangen. We had an amazing time with the young researchers exploring the fascinating science behind "Small particles, big forces: magnetic nanomaterials". Thank you to Laura Kneppe and the team around the Kinderuni at FAU Er...

During November 11th -12th, 2024 we held our first group retreat at the Naturfreundehaus in Veilbronn. Besides exciting scientific presentations and discussions, we had an amazing time brainstorming for new project ideas and spent some fun time together during our scavenger hunt in the Leinleiter...

With our partners from University of Glasgow we published an article on "Microfabrication Technologies for Nanoinvasive and High-Resolution Magnetic Neuromodulation" in Advanced Science. The review details on working principles, technical details, coil designs, and potential future developments of t...

Our joint publication together with our colleagues from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA is out! The study titled "Magnetoelectric nanodiscs enable wireless transgene-free neuromodulation" was published on 11th of October, 2024 in Nature Nanotechnology. The scientific tea...

Prof. Matthew Panthani is currently visiting Biointerfaces Lab at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg where he is working with Vicente María Durán Toro on design and biological testing of our magnetic nanomateirals. During his lecture on "Group IV Semicondutor Nanomaterials" he provided a profound insight into...

Today Noah Kent from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA is visiting Biointerfaces Lab. Thank you for giving us an insight into your impressive work by introducing us to "The Physics of Alternating Magnetic Field Nanotransducers" and for the great exchange and brainstorming on future ...

Biointerfaces Lab is excited to become member of the FAU Profile Center New Materials and Processes (FAU NMP): https://www.newmaterials.fau.de/2024/07/17/new-member-prof-dr-danijela-gregurec/ We are looking forward to share our expertise and infrastructure and establish new collaborations within ...

For the last two days the CROSSBRAIN General Assembly meeting took place at the University of Glasgow in the UK. A very productive meeting, where we could connect, exchange ideas, share our latest progress and plan for the upcoming months. Thank you to our partners from University of Glasgow fo...

Today Vicente Durán is presenting his work within the CROSSBRAIN project on novel smart magnetoelectric #nanomaterials at the "Cutting edge nanotechnologies" #conference hosted at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. A great event where he could connect with old and new partners from th...

Welcome Franzi! In July, 2024 Franziska Wasner started as a PhD candidate at Biointerfaces Lab. She will be working on the scientific challenges within the ERC BRAINMASTER project. We are very happy to have you on the team! #new #member #phdcandidate

We are glad to welcome our new colleague Sandra Plettl, who will support us in management and administration of our EU-projects. Welcome Sandra! #FAU #newcolleague #EUproject    

We had the pleasure to welcome Prof. Chanchai Boonla at Biointerfaces Lab. Prof. Boonla gave an insightful seminar on his work at Chulalongkorn University and we developed new ideas for future collaborative projects during the fruitful discussion! Biointerfaces lab will visit Prof. Boonla and Chu...

This week Elif Kocar (Biointerfaces Lab, FAU Erlangen) and Bilal Nizami (Tor Vergata University of Rome), both PhD students in the the BRAINSTORM project, are visiting our collaborators at University of Turin to perform ex vivio experiments with our newly designed nanoparticles in the MRI scanner...

Naside Tezcan, student at Biointerfaces Lab, has started her research stay at the University of Glasgow this week. Naside is visiting our collaborators at meLAB. The group of Professor Hadi Heidari will introduce her to microelectronics design and production in the framework of the BRAINSTORM proj...

Danijela Gregurec visiting Brussels for the EIC portfolio meeting together with our collaborators from the CROSSBRAIN project, Nicola Toschi (University of Rome “Tor Vergata” | UNITOV) and Luca Berdondini (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia | IIT). The portfolio on brain tools aims to overcome curren...

 

Since this week Sandra Plettl supports us in our EU projects as a replacement for Nina. We wish you all the best Nina and are happy to welcome our new colleague Sandra at Biointerfaces Lab!

 

Welcome Uzair Ali! He will work at Biointerfaces Lab as a PostDoc in the BRAINSTORM Project.

 

Biointerfaces welcomes Nina Donner. She will support us in our EU Projects BRAINSTORM and BRAINMASTER. Welcome Nina!

 

We are extremely excited and grateful to receive funding from the Horizon-ERC-StartingGrant2023 for the BRAINMASTER project. Danijela and her team will work on next generation minimal invasive neuromodulation technologies, allowing for real-time stimulation and analysis of neuronal activities in a single wireless device. Stay tuned for the project website and all upcoming news regarding our ERC-project!

 

Biointerfaces welcomes David Onaiyekan, who will support us with our IT Infrastructure. Welcome David!

 

We are excited to have Bilal Nizami visiting us as a guest researcher and are looking forward to exchange scientific knowhow and experiences.

 

During the last two days the #brainstorm #kickoff #meeting took place at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. We are happy to start the #project activities with this event, that was filled with fruitful discussions and successfully developed a roadmap for the upcoming months. Thank you to all partners University of Rome “Tor Vergata”​, CIC biomaGUNE, University of Helsinki, University of Glasgow and AKA Biotech for your contributions!

We are delighted to have Vicente Durán Toro joining our lab as a postdoc, working on development of next generation functional micromaterials for brain implantation!

 

We are wishing a warm farewell to Hany Gabriel and Stephan Petkov. Thank you for your contributions to the group.

 

We are excited to have Stephan Petkov starting with us as a postdoc to work on the exiting neuro-bio part of our lab!

 

We are grateful to receive funding from the Horizon-EIC-2022-PathfinderOpen-01 for the BRAINSTORM project. Biointerfaces will lead the BRAINSTROM project, where we and our partners will work on multimodal nanoinvasive neuromodulation technologies! We are looking to many exciting breakthroughs that BRAINSORM will bring.- Project website comes soon!

 

Congratulations to Lorenzo for having his review accepted in iScience! Read on exciting physical mechanisms that govern wireless nanomaterial – neuron interactions here

 

Danijela is delighted tio be invited for giving a talk at the Talk at the XX Brasil MRS conference to address innovations in nanomaterials as next generation of neural interfaces.

 

Biointerfaces wishes a warm welcome to Naside Tezcan, who will work on mechanical engineering tasks at the lab!

 

Biointerfaces welcomes Hany Gabriel, who will help with scientific organization and communication of the lab!

 

We are wishing a warm farewell to Elizaveta Shkredova. Thank you Liza, and all the best in your future endeavours!

 

We are grateful to the Hertha und Helmut Schmauser-Stiftung for the continued support of Biointerfaces lab. Thank you for awarding us with Hertha und Helmut Schmauser-Stiftung 2022 funds!

 

We are delighted to receive funding from the HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-02 for CROSSBRAIN project to design exciting functional interfaces for brain stimulation!

 

We are delighted to have Sergio Moya visiting us under the Visiting Professor Programme and are looking forward to many new ideas arising at the interface of soft matter and sensory sciences! Welcome, Sergio!

 

Biointerfaces welcomes Leo Rossdeutscher who will investigate with us how toxins influence directly on chemo/thermosensitive TRPV1 ion channel!

 

We are happy to welcome Elif Kocar who joined biointerfaces lab to develop sophisticated nanoparticle-based biosensors!

 

Danijela is excited to contribute to the celebration of the CIC biomaGUNE 15th anniversary with the talk that covers her research from PhD at the center till the present day.

 

Danijela will give a talk at the 4th International Brain Stimulation Conference on anisotropic nanodiscs capable of dual neuromodulation.

 

Danijela, together with the Sensory Sciences Team at FAU will talk about senses and perception at G’SCHEID SCHLAU! with some interesting hands-on experiments!

 

We are delighted that the ‘wireless DBS’ paper lead by Dr. Hescham from Maastricht University is out in  Nature Communications Congratulations to the whole multidisciplinary and multinational team!

 

Danijela is delighted for receiving EAM Starting grant from the Cluster of Excellence Engineering of Advanced Materials. Congratulations!

 

Congratulations to Danijela on being awarded by Dr. Hertha und Helmut Schmauser-Stiftung!

 

Prof. Arnd Pralle from University at Buffalo is visiting us to brainstorm new ideas on magnetic neuromodulation techniques. We are looking forward to this exciting visit.

 

Danijela Gregurec received the ETI (Emerging talents initiative) award from FAU. Congratulations!

 

Biointerfaces lab welcomes Lorenzo Signorelli who will join the group in June as a PhD student. Lorenzo will apply functional materials to study and modify neurobiological systems.

 

Biointerfaces lab welcomes Elizaveta Shkredova, a student assistant who will work with us on scientific organization and communication of the lab.

Biointerfaces lab welcomes Franziska Wasner, our new student assistant. Franziska will work on synthesis and coating of magnetic nanomaterials.

 

Danijela will talk about  ‘Magnetic nanomaterials for wireless control of sensory neurons’ at the Interdisciplinary Center for Neuroscience (iCN) mini-symposia, Erlangen on February 1st, 2021.