Wollscheid Group

Dr. Bernd Wollscheid is heading the NCCR Neuro Center for Proteomics and a research group focusing on the development of a qualitative and quantitative understanding of the cell surface subproteome as a complex information gateway to the microenvironment.

News

November 2011

Waltraud Mair, our former master student, won the Willi-Studer-Prize as the best ETH student of the biology master program. Congrats! Waltraud is now a PhD student working in Hanno Steen's lab at Harvard in collaboration with Bernhard Kuester in Munich.

The Wollscheid lab was selected for a two year Roche Postdoc Fellowship award in the context of a collaboration on infectious diseases.

Thomas Bock successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Proteomic surfaceome charateriztion of brain cancer". He is going to join the groups of Peer Borg and Martin Beck at EMBL in Heidelberg as an EMBL Interdisciplinary Postdocs (EIPOD) Postdoctoral fellow.

We welcome Nadine Sobotzki and Ulrich Omasits, who started their PhD in the Wollscheid group. Nadine will work on the project funded by the SINERGIA grant and Ulrich will work in the interface between the Ahrens group and the Wollscheid group.

October 2011

We congratulate Andreas Frei for winning the 2nd poster prize at the SystemsX.ch conference on Systems Biology.

We welcome Sebastian Müller, who started his PhD in the interface between the Wolfrum and the Wollscheid group.

Joanna Kopecka (joanna.kopecka@unito.it), a PhD student from the University of Turin, Italy, is visiting our lab for one month for using the CSC technology to quantitatively investigate the surfaceome of multi drug resistent colon cancer cells.

September 2011

Lisa Henning successfully finished her master thesis entitled "Ligand-based Receptor Capturing (LRC) for the Discovery of Drug Targets". Congratulations!

Our US Patent 7,879,799 "Methods for Characterizing Glycoproteins and Generating antibodies for Same" has now been publicly issued.

We congratulate Nikiana Simigdala for winning the 3rd Poster Prize at the conference of the Human Proteome Organisation (HUPO) 2011 for her poster entitled "Spatial proteomics on the Drosophila wing imaginal disc".

August 2011

Dr. Maren Depke, a guest scientist from the University of Greifswald, joined the Wollscheid lab for the next four month in order to extend her knowledge on mass spectrometry, specially MRM.

We congratulate Ferdinando Cerciello for the acceptance of the manuscript Proteomic Surfaceome Analysis of Mesothelioma by Annemarie Ziegler and Ferdinando Cerciello et al. by Lung Cancer.

Andreas Frei and Karel Novy both successfully applied for a travel grant from the molecular life science (MLS) PhD program. This allowed Andreas to attend the conference of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) in Denver and Karel to attend the conference of the Human Proteome Organisation (HUPO) in Geneva.

Juli 2011

The Wollscheid lab successfully applied for a SNF Sinergia grant together with Prof. Shana Shurla from the Food and Nutrition Toxicology Laboratory (ETHZ) and PD Dr. Giancarlo Marra from the Institute of Molecular Cancer Research (UniZH).

We congratulate Thomas Bock for receiving a travel award from the ( ZNZ) for participating at the conference of the Human Proteome Organisation (HUPO) in september 2011 in Geneva.

June 2011

Erika Meneses Romero, a scientist from the group of Dr. Cesar Ferreira Batista at the Instituto de Biotenologia, UNAM in Mexico, is visiting our lab for two month in order to improve her mass spectrometric skills.

Andreas Frei and Hansjörg Möst gave excellent talks at the conference of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) in Denver and got exciting feedback.

April 2011

The Wollscheid lab successfully applied for a Swiss National Foundation (SNF) grant with a proposal entitled "Ligand-based identification of receptors on living cells using Surface Receptor Capturing".

Annalisa Nicastri joined the Wollscheid lab as a guest student for the next 9 month. She will work together with Ferdinando Cerciello on the mesothelioma project.

Jirina Tyleckova retourned to her lab in the Czech Republic. We thank her for the work accomplished here.

We congratulate Damaris Bausch-Fluck for winning the first poster prize at the Proteomic Forum 2011 in Berlin for her poster about the Cell Surface Protein Atlas.

March 2011

We congratulate Andreas Frei and Hansjörg Möst for being selected to give a talk at the conference of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) in Denver.
The new and improved InfectX website is now online, with many information about the project and the research groups involved: www.infectx.ch

February 2011

Lisa Henning, a master student from the program "Interdisciplenary Sciences" from the ETH Zurich, joined our lab and started her master thesis under the supervision of Andreas Frei focusing on ligand-receptor interactions.

January 2011

Lydia Bänziger successfully finished her master thesis entitled "Quantitative Analysis of the Endothelial Cell Surface Proteome upon Perturbation by Cilengitide".

December 2010

We congratulate Dr. med. Ferdinando Cerciello for receiving a grant from the Huggenberger-Bischoff Stiftung zur Krebsforschung.

November 2010

Ulrich Omasits, who recently finished his master thesis in the Wollscheid lab, started working in the group of Jyoti Choudhary at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

October 2010

Karel Novy started as a PhD student in the Wollscheid Lab! His initial research will focus on surfaceome biology of infection within the InfectX project (Systems Biology of pathogen entry into human cells).

September 2010

The spotlight about the Cell Surface Capturing technology has been featured in Best of Chemical Biology in 2009.

August 2010

Andreas Hofmann successfully defended his PHD thesis entitled "Proteomic Cell Surface Phenotyping of Hematological Malignancies" and is going to join Novartis as a groupleader.
Ulrich Omasits successfully finished his master thesis entitled "Bioinformatic and Mass Spectrometric Analysis of the Cell Surface Proteome" in collaboration with the University of Vienna.
Andrea Jacobs re-joined the lab as a Miltenyi Biotec fellow after her maternity leave.

July 2010

Andreas Frei was awarded with a travel fellowship from the Swiss Proteomics Society (SPS) for HUPO conference 2010 in Sydney

Waltraud Mair successfully finished her Master thesis entitled "Influenza Virosome induced changes of the HeLa surface proteome" and left for an 8 month research exchange program to Sao Paulo, Brazil

Jirina Tyleckova from the Academy of Science, Libechov, CZ, will join our lab in November for 5 month for a exchange research visit.

June 2010

Ulrich Omasits won a fellowship to attend the Computational Biology Summer School

The research of the Wollscheid lab was highlighted in the Miltenyi Biotec newsletter MACS&more Special edition neuroscience MACS&more Special edition neuroscience [pdf]

May 2010 - Research exchange visit

Anetta Härtlova from the University of Defense, Hradec Králové, CZ, will join our lab for a research exchange.

Dec 2009 - Poster Prize

Thomas Bock (Wollscheid Group) won the Poster Prize at the Swiss Proteomics Society Congress 2009 (SPS) in the category "Systems Biology" for his poster ""Protein Dynamics: Protein Quantification in Time and Space" about the Glioma Cell Surface Signal Transduction Network. link

June 2009 - Highlights in Nature Methods and ACS Chemical Biology

The recently published article about the Cell Surface Capturing Technology has been highlighted in Nature Methods and ACS Chemical Biology. [link to Nat Method article / pdf download], [link to article in ACS Chem Biol]

May 2009 - Press release of ISB

The Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle emphasizes in their press release the recently published CSC Technology in Nature Biotechnology. [link]