July 2026
New crosslink chemistries in ColBuilder
Together with our collaborators at the University of Vienna, we published an extension of ColBuilder featuring additional crosslink chemistries for building collagen microfibril models.
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January 2026
A Martini coarse-grained model for collagen
Johanna's first paper is out! It introduces a Martini coarse-grained model for collagen modelling, opening the door to larger-scale simulations of collagen and other ECM components.
Read more →September 2025
Welcome to our first PhD student, Johanna Buck
We are delighted to welcome Johanna Buck as the group's first PhD student, co-supervised with Frauke Gräter. Johanna develops coarse-grained and ML-informed approaches to model collagen and other ECM components.
September 2025
Starting as a group leader at MPIP
Debora begins as a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPIP) in Mainz.
June 2025
The ColBuilder paper is published
Our paper describing ColBuilder, a tool for generating atomistic models of crosslinked collagen microfibrils, is now published in Bioinformatics.
Read more →June 2025
Finn Daniel joins the group as an intern
Finn Daniel joins the group as an intern from the University of Heidelberg, working on population-scale validation of protein language model predictions for collagen gene variants.