Séraphine Wegner
University of
Münster ,
Germany
Prof. Seraphine Wegner is a full professor at the University of Münster at the Institute of Physiological Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry since 2019. Her current research focusses on light controlled systems in the context of bottom-up tissue engineering and synthetic cells. The group harnesses the power of optogenetics to understand the spatiotemporal regulation of cellular functions in living cells and recapitulating them in cell mimetic systems. She previously was an independent group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz/Germany focusing on bottom-up assembly of synthetic cells and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Heidelberg and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems on cell material interactions. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in chemistry at the University of Chicago in 2010 for her work on metalloregulatory proteins under the guidance of Prof. Chuan He and B.S. degree in chemistry at the Middle East Technical University/Turkey in 2005. Her work has been recognized by several awards including a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant and MaxSynBio independent research grant.
Selected References
- Ji, Y.; Chakraborty, T.; Wegner, S. V. Self-Regulated and Bidirectional Communication in Synthetic Cell Communities. ACS Nano2023, 17, 10, 8992–9002
- Heidari, A.; Sentürk, O. I.; Yang, S.; Joesaar, A.; Gobbo, P.; Mann, S.; de Greef, T. F. A.; Wegner S. V. Orthogonal Light‐Dependent Membrane Adhesion Induces Social Self‐Sorting and Member‐Specific DNA Communication in Synthetic Cell Communities. Small 2023,202206474
- Chakraborty, T.; Wegner, S. V. Cell to Cell Signaling Through Light in Artificial Cell Communities: Glowing Predator Lures Prey. ACSNano 2021, 15, 9434–9444