Prof. Dr. Wilfried Weber,

Prof. Dr. Wilfried Weber

Scientific Director
Phone: +49 (0)681-9300-520
E-mail: [email protected]

Curriculum Vitae

Since 2023      

Scientific Director of INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials and Professor (W3) for New Materials at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

2019 – 2023      

Founding Scientific Director of the Cluster of Excellence CIBSS – Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies

2009 – 2023     

Full Professor of Synthetic Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Germany

2008 – 2009     

Group Leader, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

2008     

Co-founder of BioVersys GmbH, now BioVersys AG

2006 – 2008    

Group Leader, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zurich

2003 – 2005  

Postdoc, Institute of Biotechnology, ETH Zurich

2003 – 2005  

Doctoral Studies, Institute of Biotechnology, ETH Zurich with Prof. Martin Fussenegger

2000 

Diplôme d’Ingénieur en Biotechnologie, Ecole Supérieure de Biotechnologie de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

Publications

2022
A small and highly sensitive red/far-red optogenetic switch for applications in mammals

Zhou, Y. | Kong, D. | Wang, X. | Yu, G. | Wu, X. | Guan, N. | Weber, Wilfried | Ye, H.

Nature Biotechnology , 2022, 40 (2), 262-272.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41587-021-01036-w

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2021
CRISPR-powered electrochemical microfluidic multiplexed biosensor for target amplification-free miRNA diagnostics

Bruch, R. | Johnston, M. | Kling, A. | Mattmüller, T. | Baaske, J. | Partel, S. | Madlener, S. | Weber, Wilfried | Urban, G. A. | Dincer, C.

Biosensors and Bioelectronics , 2021, 177
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2020.112887

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Synthetic biology as driver for the biologization of materials sciences

Burgos-Morales, O. | Gueye, M. | Lacombe, L. | Nowak, C. | Schmachtenberg, R. | Hörner, M. | Jerez-Longres, C. | Mohsenin, H. | Wagner, H. J. | Weber, Wilfried

Materials Today Bio , 2021, 11
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mtbio.2021.100115

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The Rise of Molecular Optogenetics

Di Ventura, B. | Weber, Wilfried

Advanced Biology , 2021, 5 (5),
https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adbi.202100776

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Red light-controlled viral gene delivery with single-cell resolution

Hörner, M. | Weber, Wilfried

BioSpektrum , 2021, 27 (6), 620-622.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12268-021-1643-z

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Optogenetic approaches for the spatiotemporal control of signal transduction pathways

Kramer, M. M. | Lataster, L. | Weber, Wilfried | Radziwill, G.

International Journal of Molecular Sciences , 2021, 22 (10),
https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms22105300

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Spatiotemporally confined red light-controlled gene delivery at single-cell resolution using adeno-associated viral vectors

Hörner, M. | Jerez-Longres, C. | Hudek, A. | Hook, S. | Yousefi, O. S. | Schamel, W. W. A. | Hörner, C. | Zurbriggen, M. D. | Ye, H. | Wagner, H. J. | Weber, Wilfried

Science Advances , 2021, 7 (25),
https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abf0797

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Green Light-Controlled Gene Switch for Mammalian and Plant Cells

Schneider, N. | Chatelle, C. V. | Ochoa-Fernandez, R. | Zurbriggen, M. D. | Weber, Wilfried

Methods in molecular biology , 2021, 2312 89-107.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1441-9_6

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Synthetic Biology: Emerging Concepts to Design and Advance Adeno-Associated Viral Vectors for Gene Therapy

Wagner, H. J. | Weber, Wilfried | Fussenegger, M.

Advanced Science , 2021, 8 (9),
https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.202004018

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Liquid-liquid phase separation of light-inducible transcription factors increases transcription activation in mammalian cells and mice

Schneider, N. | Wieland, F. G. | Kong, D. | Fischer, A. A. M. | Hörner, M. | Timmer, J. | Ye, H. | Weber, Wilfried

Science Advances , 2021, 7 (1),
https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abd3568

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