We are very grateful to the Hartmann Foundation for having granted Stephanie’s running cost grant application to support her work on neuropeptide binding to acid-sensing ion channels.

Congratulations to Nina for successfully defending her PhD after a an impressive 3-year methodological tour-de-force, which established a powerful new technology in our lab. We are excited to have you stay around at least for a little while longer and put all that experimental magic into action!

A sad (but sunny) day for the lab, as we had to bid farewell to postdocs Keith and Iacopo, who have been working hard on our latest efforts in using split inteins to engineer proteins. The two have made a fantastic (and highly complementary) effort to get this work off the ground and they will be missed sorely in the future. We wish them all the best for their next endeavours!

Along with parts of the Strømgaard and Olsen groups, Iacopo and Stephan got a chance to attend the 2019 Chemical Protein Synthesis Meeting in Berlin – and marvel at the outstanding lineup of speakers. Thanks to the organisers for a fantastic meeting on the latest and greatest in protein synthesis.

We are very grateful to the Independent Research Fun Denmark for a 3-year grant to expand on our work on split inteins in ion channels.

As of today, Lise will be moving on from the lab. We enjoyed having her around for the last year and a half and we wish her all the best for her future endeavours.

Congrats to Christian Borg for successfully defending his PhD today! He did a fantastic job over the last three years working on peptide modulation of acid-sensing ion channels and also established a number of techniques along the way. A big thanks also to the assessment committee, composed of Profs Frølund, Gründer and Grunnet. Congrats again and we are very glad that we will have him around for a bit longer!

We took advantage of the incremental weather improvements by meeting for a pot luck dinner – thanks to everyone for their delicious contributions and for making it a fun dinner!

Congratulations to Federica for having her first paper from her PhD published in JGP today. She used protein backbone mutagenesis in combination with a wide range of ATP/CTP analogs to show how P2X receptors recognise and discriminate between different agonists. You can read the whole story on the JGP website.

Congrats to Nina for winning the poster prize at the 2019 edition of the Ion channel symposium in Copenhagen – well done!