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In February, we've published a new paper. Read the original blog post here. And now we're featured on the cover of the April 2026 issue of Life Science Alliance. The article is Open Access and available here:Unlocking the secrets of SARS-CoV-2 nsp3 by combining experiments with AlphaFold2 domain prediction

An article in the Adlershof Journal highlights Andrea and our AI and Biomolecular Structures department at Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin and provides an overview of our work. Tap the button below to read it. A PDF version is also available.

During the pandemic, we analysed all structures of nsp3. Non-structural protein 3 (nsp3) is the largest protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It has over a dozen parts ("domains") with different jobs The virus needs nsp3 to multiply and therefore, it is a major target for drugs against COVID.However, while we know what some of the […]

We've just moved our Tapinella extract crystals to Berlin and are looking forward to science the Fungi out of them. Here is a photo of our awesome dry shipper:

We've published a paper in Nature Reviews Primer together with Pavel V. Afonine, Armando Albert, Kay Diederichs, Juan A. Hermoso, Eugene Krissinel, José Antonio Márquez, Santosh Panjikar, Maria Solà & Isabel Usón. Nature Reviews Methods Primers: Macromolecular crystallography This Primer offers a practical and rational introduction to macromolecular crystallography. Andrea has written the part about […]

On Tuesday, 16th of September at 5pm, Andrea will give a lecture at "Highlights der Physik" in Jena.The lecture "Kristallographie und Krieg der Sterne" (Crystallography and Star Wars) will be in German. You can attend it at Lecture Hall 1 at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Carl-Zeiss-Straße 3 (please book tickets free of charge here) or live […]

At our first week as a group at HZB in Berlin, we had the opportunity to get a tour of the workspaces (and the control room) at BESSY II.Thanks to everyone involved for showing us around and being so nice to us! It was Florian's first time visiting a synchrotron and together we've had great […]

Our dear friend and colleague Dr. Yunyun Gao leaves Thornlab for his new job at Aton Parr in Graz, Austria. He spent his last day with our group in Berlin. We wish him all the best at and we hope to see each other soon and often, and fun skiing!

Andrea took up a position as head of department of AI and Biomolecular Structures at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, and so Thorn lab is moving!Here is HZB‘s news article: New department at HZB: ‘AI and Biomolecular Structures’ Take a look at the HZB web page: AI and Biomolecular Structures - Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), which of course is […]

We are mushing mushrooms! Why? Because we want to determine biomolecular structures from macrofungi that grow in the forest. Philip Wehling will work as part of our lab for four months to establish an extraction protocol. Photos: Thorn Lab