Our research focus (latest update March 2025):
Luisa I. Beyer - PhD student Her project focuses on the engineering of nature-inspired antimicrobial peptides in collaboration with Beatriz Camara Lab in Valparaiso in Chile
She has spent 2 months of internship in Valparaiso/Chile in Beatriz Camara's Lab
Beyer, L., Schäfer, A.-B., Undabarrena, A., Mattsby-Baltzer, I., Tietze, D., Svensson, E., Stubelius, A., Wenzel, M., Camara, B., Tietze, A. A., Mimicking Non-ribosomal Peptides from the Marine Actinomycete Streptomyces sp. H-KF8 Leads to Antimicrobial Peptides (2024), ACS Infect. Dis., 10, 1, 79-92, DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.3c00206
She also received numerous grants and travel awards during her PhD:
Research project grant, Adlerbertska Research Foundation, 2024 (55 000 SEK)
Waived conference fee, EPS2024, Florence/Italy, European Peptide Society, 2024
Research visit grant, National Doctoral Programme in Infections and Antibiotics, 2023 (35 00 SEK)
Travel grant, Adlerbertska Scholarships, 2023 (20 000 SEK)
Travel award, Australian Peptide Symposium 2023/Brisbane, Australian Peptide Association, 2023
Research project grant, Adlerbertska Research Foundation, 2022 (40 000 SEK)
Waived conference fee, Swedish Chemical Society, 2022
Helal Abujubara - PhD student - graduated on the 1st of November 2024 - Toward the synthesis and characterization of bioactive peptides: Engineering of transmembrane peptide conjugates for targeted drug delivery
Abujubara, H., Yang, J., Otyakmaz, B., Noisier, A. F. M., Czechtizky, W., Lemurell, M. and Tietze, A. A.,* Ionic liquid-mediated approach for the synthesis of site-specific thioether conjugates (2023), Chem. Eur. J., e202203915, DOI: 10.1002/chem.202203915
Abujubara, H.; Hintzen, J. C. J.; Rahimi, S.; Mijakovic, I.; Tietze, D.; Tietze, A. A.,* Substrate-derived Sortase A Inhibitors: Targeting an Essential Virulence Factor of Gram-positive Pathogenic Bacteria (2023), Chem. Sci., DOI: 10.1039/D3SC01209C
Hintzen, J. C. J., Abujubara, H., Tietze, D., Tietze, A. A., The complete assessment of small molecule and peptidomimetic inhibitors of Sortase A towards antivirulence treatment (2024), Chem. Eur. J., DOI: 10.1002/chem.202401103
Abujubara, H., Bharmoria, P., Alvarez, S., Appiah, E., Moth-Poulsen, K., Sayin, V., Tietze, A.A., Transmembrane peptide-loaded ionic liquid nanocarriers for targeting ErbB2-positive cancer, (2024), ChemRxiv, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-wkw04
Conferences and Workshops
Poster presentation at the 14th International Peptide Symposium and the 37th European Peptide Symposium, Florence/Italy (25-29th of AUG 2024).
Invited speaker at the International Oligonucleotides and Peptides Conference IOPC 2024, Milan/Italy (25-26th of June 2024).
Poster presentation at TIDES USA 2024: Oligonucleotide & Peptide Therapeutics, 14-17th MAY 2024 Boston, MA, USA.
Poster presentation at the 13th International Peptide Symposium and the 15th Australian Peptide Conference, Brisbane/Australia (15-20th of OCT 2023).
Poster presentation at the International Oligonucleotides and Peptides Conference, Milan/Italy (5-7th of June 2023).
The Wallenberg Centre for Molecular and Translational Medicine yearly kick-off events/Sweden (2020-2024).
Awards and Scholarships
Registration fee waiver for the 14th International Peptide Symposium in Italy.
A travel grant of 16000 SEK by CancerFonden to attend TIDES USA 2024 conference.
A travel bursary of 500 AUD by CSBio to attend the 13th International Peptide Symposium in Australia, 2023.
Adlerbertska travel stipends of 20000 SEK by Adlerbertska Stipendiestiftelsen, 2023
Best poster award on the peptide track with 200 Euro gift in the IOPC conference in Italy, 2023
The Donations Board’s travel scholarship of 15000 SEK by Stiftelsen Oscar Ekmans stipendiefond, 2023
Ivan Unksov, Dr., PostDoc research is focused on biosensors development and metallopeptides for DNA scission.
He has received following grant:
Wenner-Gren Foundation travel scholarship, 13 000 SEK