March 2024 - Christian Ding Fisker joins the group as a PhD student
We welcome Christian Ding Fisker as a new PhD student. Christian will develop chemical tools for understanding linker histones.
March 2024 - Zhimei Yu joins the group as a PhD student
We welcome Zhimei Yu as a new PhD student. Zhimei will develop chemical tools for probing histidine methyltransferases.
January 2024 - Faidra Voukia receives the PhD degree
Congratulations to Dr. Faidra Voukia for successfully defending the PhD thesis, "Design and Development of Inhibitors of Acetyltransferases and Methyltransferases".
July 2023 - NERD grant
We are absolutely thrilled to receive the New Exploratory Research and Discovery (NERD) grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation for the project ''Understanding the Chemical Language of Linker Histones''.
https://novonordiskfonden.dk/en/grant-recipient/?search=&category=111&paginate=1
https://www.sdu.dk/en/om_sdu/fakulteterne/naturvidenskab/nyheder-2023/mecinovic_histones
June 2023 - Independent Research Fund Denmark grant
We are grateful to the Independent Research Fund Denmark for supporting our research project "Development of chemical tools for probing protein histidine methyltransferases".
https://dff.dk/forskningsprojekter/database/view?b_start:int=140&set_language=da
https://dff.dk/en/grants/database/view?b_start:int=140&set_language=en
March 2023 - Sadaf Ahmad joins the group as a PhD student
We welcome Sadaf Ahmad as a new PhD student. Sadaf will develop chemical tools for histidine posttranslational modifications.
March 2023 - SDU Interview
An interview about Jasmin's interests in chemistry.
https://www.sdu.dk/en/nyheder/nyviden/moed-vores-forskere/jasmin-mecinovic
https://www.sdu.dk/da/nyheder/nyviden/moed-vores-forskere/jasmin-mecinovic
February 2023 - Sandra Pinzon Martin joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow
We welcome Sandra Pinzon Martin as a new Postdoctoral fellow. Sandra will work on synthetic epigenetic proteins.
October 2022 - New Postdocs
We welcome Dr. Lingzhi Li and Dr. Pinyi Gao as new Postdoctoral Fellows. Lingzhi and Pinyi will work on epigenetic medicinal chemistry.
August 2022 - Marijn Maas receives the PhD degree
Congratulations to Dr. Marijn Maas for successfully defending the PhD thesis, "Modulation of Protein-Protein Interactions with Pre-Structured Peptides".
June 2022 - Jie Jian receives the PhD degree
Congratulations to Dr. Jie Jian for successfully defending the PhD thesis, "Physical-Organic Studies on Polar-Pi Interactions".
April 2022 - Alaa Salah Salem joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow
We welcome Alaa Salah Salem as a new Postdoctoral fellow. Alaa will work on epigenetic DNA modifications.
April 2022 - Protein Science publication
Congratulations to Jordi Hintzen for the publication, "Histidine methyltransferase SETD3 methylates structurally diverse histidine mimics in actin".
March 2022 - Miriam Porzberg receives the PhD degree
Congratulations to Dr. Miriam Porzberg for successfully defending the PhD thesis, "Chemical Basis of Arginine Citrullination and Methylation in Epigenetics".
March 2022 - Jordi Hintzen receives the PhD degree
Congratulations to Dr. Jordi Hintzen for successfully defending the PhD thesis, "Investigation of Post-Translational Modifications Through Incorporation of Unnatural Amino Acids".
March 2022 - Communications Chemistry publication
Congratulations to Roman Belle and Jos Kamps for the publication, "Reading and erasing of the phosphonium analogue of trimethyllysine by epigenetic protein".
December 2021 - Novo Nordisk Foundation Project Grant in the Natural and Technical Sciences
We are grateful to the Novo Nordisk Foundation for supporting our research project, "Epigenetic Proteins: Synthesis, Biomolecular Recognition and Biocatalysis".
December 2021 – Carlsberg Foundation grant
We thank the Carlsberg Foundation for supporting our project, "Multifunctional Mass Spectrometer for Synthetic Chemistry".
September 2021 - Giordano Proietti receives the PhD degree
Congratulations to Dr. Giordano Proietti for successfully defending the PhD thesis, "Chemical Biology Approaches to Investigate Histone Lysine Acetylation".
August 2021 - Nurgül Bilgin and Vildan Türkmen join the group as PhD students
We welcome Nurgül Bilgin and Vildan Türkmen as new PhD students. Nurgül will develop new chemical tools for studies of histone lysine acetyltransferases, whereas Vildan will develop native chemical ligation tools for histone research.
June 2021 - Jordi Hintzen receives the Baltic Sea Science Award 2021
Congratulations to Jordi Hintzen, 3rd year PhD student, for receiving the Baltic Sea Science Award 2021 for his outstanding work on actin methylation.
Press release: Three young scientists awarded for scientific excellence
March 2021 - Chemical Communications publication
Congratulations to Marijn Maas for the publication, "Targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein by stapled hACE2 peptides".
New drug candidate against COVID-19
December 2020 – Carlsberg Foundation grant
We thank the Carlsberg Foundation for supporting our project ''Isothermal Titration Calorimeter for Molecular Recognition Studies''.
December 2020 – Mohammad Mubinar Rahman joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow
We welcome Mohammad Mubinar Rahman as a new Postdoctoral fellow. Mohammad will work on histone crotonylation.
October 2020 – Lundbeck Foundation Ascending Investigator grant
We are very pleased to receive the support from the Lundbeck Foundation for the project ''Targeting epigenetic enzymes in the brain''.
Lundbeck Foundation Grant for better understanding of brain diseases
September 2020 – Faidra Voukia joins the group as a PhD student
We welcome Faidra Voukia as a new PhD student. Faidra will develop new chemical tools for studies of epigenetic enzymes.
June 2020 – Communications Chemistry publication
Congratulations to Bas Pieters for the publication "Mechanism of biomolecular recognition of trimethyllysine by the fluorinated aromatic cage of KDM5A PHD3 finger".
June 2020 – Abbas Al Temimi receives Cum Laude PhD
Congratulations to Abbas Al Temimi for outstanding PhD thesis and defence.
December 2019 – Novo Nordisk Foundation Project grant in Bioscience and Basic Biomedicine
>We are grateful to the Novo Nordisk Foundation for supporting our research project, "Understanding the biochemical basis for the recognition of crotonyllysine by YEATS domains".
September 2019 – Communications Chemistry publication
Congratulations to Abbas Al Temimi for the publication, "The nucleophilic amino group of lysine is central for histone lysine methyltransferase catalysis".
April 2019 – Nature Chemistry publication
Nature Chemistry article published.