Kersten Lab 07/2025
Akademischer Oberrat
Tel.: 39-25714
E-Mail: kerstec"at"uni-mainz.de
Raum: 03-155
Forschungsinteressen: Research
Lehre Pharmazie/BMC/MoBi (aktuell):
Pharmazeutische/Medizinische Chemie
Arzneistoffanalytik
Arzneimittelanalytik
Wirkstoffdesign & CADD
Short Bio:
Christian is a pharmacist by training who obtained his PhD in medicinal&pharmaceutical chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ruth Brenk at the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz and the University of Bergen, Norway for the elucidation of selectivity determining features in proteins with conserved binding sites. Since 2017, he is "Akademischer Rat", since 2024 "Akademischer Oberrat" (internationally somehow similar to ~assistant professor/senior lecturer) at the University of Mainz. In 2025, he obtained the venia legendi (habilitation) in medicinal&pharmaceutical chemistry. Besides the structure-based inhibitor design for targets of pharmaceutical interest, especially in the field of neglected tropical diseases, his research focusses on the interplay between molecular recognition and ligand binding thermodynamics and kinetics making use of computational and biophysical methods. In the novel field of small molecule RNA-ligand development, his work aims to improve the understanding of molecular interactions and the application of rational structure-based design methods for bacterial riboswitches and viral RNA targets.
Dr. Damian Tarasek
Postdoctoral researcher
Tel.: 39-28824
E-Mail: tarasekd@uni-mainz.de
Raum: 03-173
Forschungsinteressen: Design and synthesis of RNA-ligands with fancy (tbd) novel modes of action
Laura Almena Rodriguez
M. Sc. Chemistry
Tel.: 39-25726
E-Mail: almelaur@uni-mainz.de
Raum: 03-171
Forschungsinteressen: Strukturbasiertes Design, Synthese und biophysikalische Charakterisierung von RNA-bindenden Small Molecules
Maike Grimm
M. Sc. Biomedizinische Chemie
Tel.: 39-25601
E-Mail: mgrimm@students.uni-mainz.de
Raum: 03-151
Forschungsinteressen: CADD, ML, RNA, MAINCE
Sabrina Hoba
M. Sc. Biomedizinische Chemie
Tel.: 39-24236
E-Mail: sahoba@uni-mainz.de
Raum: 03-165
Forschungsinteressen: CatS, MMP-9, Peptidsynthese, Enzymsubstrate, MultiSensE
Katherina Meisel
Apothekerin
Tel.: 39-25601
E-Mail: kmeisel@uni-mainz.de
Raum: 03-151
Forschungsinteressen: RNA-small molecule Bindungsstudien, RNA Dynamik, Assayentwicklung
Mareike Riedel
M. Sc. Chemie
Tel.: 39-31186
E-Mail: mriedel@uni-mainz.de
Raum: 03-173
Forschungsinteressen: MMP9, peptide synthesis, assay development, MUNASET
Thomas Schmidpeter
M. Sc. Chemie
Tel.: 39-
E-Mail: schmidpt@uni-mainz.de
Raum: 03-165
Forschungsinteressen: Synthesis and hit optimization of RNA-binding small molecules
Thales do Valle Moreira
M. Sc. Pharmaceutical Sciences
Tel.: 39-26742
E-Mail: tdovalle@uni-mainz.de
Raum: 03-163
Forschungsinteressen: Protease inhibitors in theranostics, OncoProTools
Annabelle Weldert
M. Sc. Biomedizinische Chemie
Tel.: 39-25601
E-Mail: anwelder@uni-mainz.de
Raum: 03-151
Forschungsinteressen: Molekulare Wechselwirkungen, biophysikalische Methoden, strukturbasiertes Design, RNA MTasen - with Fabian Barthels Lab
Alumni
Dr. Elisabeth Kallert (07/2021 - 11/2024), thesis: "Unraveling the Secrets of Pathogenic RNA: Biophysical Approaches to Study RNA–Small Molecule Interactions"
Kersten Lab 08/2024