
Assistant Professor @univgroningen | Biochemist, Protein Engineer, 'Would-be designer' (F. Arnold) | same handle on BluSk
Groningen
Joined April 2011
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Max Fürst (find me as @maxfus in BS) retweeted
If you want to participate in PPI Prediction Challenge #2, come over the the other place...
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Max Fürst (find me as @maxfus in BS) retweeted
Wow! There is a real X leak for Bluesky. Are you there? Here is our profile, come say hi: bsky.app/profile/lonelypipet…
Max Fürst (find me as @maxfus in BS) retweeted
There’s a place where the sky is blue (and with increasingly many structural biologists and biophysicists)
Max Fürst (find me as @maxfus in BS) retweeted
The Protein Design Competition results are in!
🧬 200 designs tested in our lab
🌍 90 protein designers from around the world
💎 5 novel binders found
🎯 2.5% hit rate (vs 0.01% on previous EGFR work)
1st place: @MartinPacesa & Lennart Nickel
2nd place: @khRRustamov
3rd place: Adrian Tripp (@tugraz)
Max Fürst (find me as @maxfus in BS) retweeted
A recent preprint from our lab about MOSAIC: a very easy protocol to make (short) mutations or libraries in plasmids much easier (no PCR, or assembly cloning needed), just electroporation with oligos! Probably useful for many in the field biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… spread the word!
Max Fürst (find me as @maxfus in BS) retweeted
Hey, #synbio people. Wes Robertson, A good friend of mine and a great scientist is starting his lab @MRC_LMB This is a unique opportunity to have an impact in #synthetic_genomics and work under leadership of talented and ambitious PI. shorturl.at/mnvw9
Max Fürst (find me as @maxfus in BS) retweeted
4-year studentship available in my lab at @kclchemistry working at the interface of fundamental synthetic biology and therapeutic biotechnology development - come & join me in the XNA world! Please RT
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Max Fürst (find me as @maxfus in BS) retweeted
A feeding electric eel can cause transfection of plasmids from the surrounding environment into nearby organisms - natural, eel induced, electroporation.
peerj.com/articles/16596/
Max Fürst (find me as @maxfus in BS) retweeted
🚨🚨🚨 We are hiring! We are looking for 2⃣ PhD students who want to join us @StratinghInst for awesome research in the field of continuous #enzyme #evolution! Informal questions per DM. Click the link below to apply! #MolecularEvolution
Please RT!
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Really excited to share this work of my postdoc lab @PhilHolliger in which I was fortunate to make a small contribution to.
nature.com/articles/s41551-0…
Lead by the incredible Ben Porebski, this work describes an ingenious way to collect massive protein sequence-function datasets.
New paper from my group out in xitter.cf/natBME. Outstanding work by Ben Porebski and great collaboration with xitter.cf/AstraZeneca. We describe a new high-throughput strategy for biomolecular discovery, which we call deep screening.
Max Fürst (find me as @maxfus in BS) retweeted
Assistant/Associate Professor Position on Computer-Aided Drug Design open in Groningen !
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Max Fürst (find me as @maxfus in BS) retweeted
PDRA opportunity in our group @UCLChemistry to develop & characterise ribozymes that harness primordial chemistries. 28 months, funded by BBSRC & Royal Society; org chem or mol bio background. Apply by 7th August: tinyurl.com/4bhhf2v2
Max Fürst (find me as @maxfus in BS) retweeted
Are you a bioinformatician and want to use your skills to support diverse research lines? Biochemistry @WUR is hiring a staff scientist in bioinformatics! Come join us :D
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Max Fürst (find me as @maxfus in BS) retweeted
Curse and Blessing of Non-Proteinogenic Parts in Computational Enzyme Engineering (Fuerst et al.) @MaxFus #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
📣 We did a thing 📣
Are you a protein engineer working on enzymes dependent on cofactors, nuc acids, PTMs, or ncAAs? Check out why it's a great idea to computationally predict mutations, but why you should use your fav comp tool with extra caution 👉chemistry-europe.onlinelibra… 🧵👇
Luckily, in most cases, dedicated settings, manual adjustments, or crude hacks are described. We summarize common and exciting novel protein engineering workflows and outline what is known about how these tools can be used with enzymes featuring non-proteinogenic parts.



























