Sebastian Pomplun

@fra_grisoni @NWONieuws @TUeindhoven @molecularML Congratulations!

Thrilled to receive a @NWONieuws Vidi grant!🚀We will push the boundaries of #ML in drug discovery via ‘chemistry-centered’ innovation.💪🏻 Huge thanks to my colleagues @TUeindhoven, the awesome @molecularML team and my incredible partner for their support! tue.nl/en/news-and-ev…

📢 JOB ALERT 📢 My team @molecularML is searching for a #postdoc with a background in medicinal chemistry! 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬🧪 Do you have the experience? Are you eager to contribute to #AI for discovering new drugs? 👉Then DM me! Funded by @ERC_Research and located at @TUeindhoven 🚀

We had a small change in the program. The @LED3hub Lecture by Paola Picotti @Picotti_Lab was moved to February 6th, 2025.

Thrilled to share our latest work on the late-stage, site-specific chemical insertion of aromatic PTMs into proteins, published today in @J_A_C_S A big thanks to @LashuelLab for the exciting collaboration. Congratulations to Lin, Shaswati, and the team! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Come join us at EPFL! We are looking to fill a new position for a Tenure Track Professor in Chemical Biology! Find all info how to apply here: epfl.ch/about/working/…

Can you simultaneously improve the potency and safety profile of a clinically used antibiotic? The group of @NatMart_Chembio of the @LED3hub presents the guanidino lipoglycopeptide antibiotic class with potent antibacterial activity in @ScienceTM. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Amazing news that two projects involving @LED3hub scientists have been awarded funding through @NWOFunding Open Competition M2 grants. Congratulations to @PomplunSeb and Matthias Barz from the @LACDR as well as Sander van Kasteren from the LIC. nwo.nl/en/news/twenty…

A focused library of site-specifically acetylated Max transcription factor analogs was chemically synthesized to dissect the role of Lys-acetylation in its DNA binding activity NEW #ASAP by @jbaram90 @afek7afek Read it here: go.acs.org/a9D

MC4DD: New EU consortium on drug discovery dedicated to macrocycles. 8 universities and 6 industry partner join forces to advance the science of macrocycles as drugs. More information: MC4DD.com

Can you improve an antibiotic that has been in clinical use for 75 years? The group of @NatMart_Chembio of the @LED3hub addressed this question by developing bacitracin analogs with enhanced activity against vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Our latest paper is just out in ACS Chemical Biology. Novel quenched fluorescent activity-based probes for serine proteases based on phosphinate esters. This work was part of the PhD of @KahlerJp. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Great paper from the groups of @J_McGouran and Sander van Kasteren with first author @SeanMcK27 in @rsc_chembio. Fully-functionalized probes based on the metal chelator 8-mercaptoquinoline for affinity-based protein profiling of metal-binding proteins. doi.org/10.1039/D4CB00…

LED3’s first PhD/Postdoc symposium was a big success!🎉 Researchers from different Leiden Science institutes presented their interdisciplinary research on Early Drug Discovery. Read more about the collaboration: universiteitleiden.nl/en/science/led3 #LED3Symposium

At the #LED3Symposium, we also announced next year's #LED3Lectures with an amazing program including @BalskusLab, Andrew Leach, Tjeerd Barf, @Picotti_Lab, @RentmeisterLab, Jeff Kelly, @johnpoverington, Kim Lewis, @TateScience and @jaykeasling.

It was great to see all the lively discussions between researchers from all of our institutes at the poster session of the #LED3Symposium. We had a very high quality of posters with an amazing diversity of topics and a lot of interdisciplinary connections.

Great talk by Bert Beerkens at the #LED3Symposium. He talked about his research on the development of labeling reagents for the adenosine A2B receptor using ligand-directed chemistry. Interesting application of N-acyl-N-alkyl sulfonamide (NASA) chemistry.

Great talk by Sophie Wintermans at the #LED3Symposium. She talked about her PhD research in the group of @Martola1985 into a high throughput screening method for RNA-binding small molecules on the example of the PreQ1 riboswitch. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The final keynote lecture of the #LED3Symposium was given by @NatMart_Chembio. He talked about his group's amazing research into inhibitors of the cancer driver protein Nicotinamide N-methyltransferase (NNMT). sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Great talk by Nataliia Machushynets at the #LED3Symposium. She talked about her research in the group of @GillesvanWezel into new tridecaptin antibiotics with enhanced biological activity. An exciting interdisciplinary project across several @LED3hub groups.