1. Novel types of RiPP-modifying enzymes 

   Richter, Daniel; Piel, Jörn (2024)

   Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

   Journal Article

2. Terahertz Spectroscopy and Imaging up to 20 THz Based on Organic Crystals 

   Medrano, Carolina; Bach, Tobias; Gunter, Peter; et al. (2024)

   TERAHERTZ, RF, MILLIMETER, AND SUBMILLIMETER-WAVE TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS XVII

   We present THz time-domain spectroscopy and imaging covering a wide frequency range up to 20 THz. Our approach uses highly efficient organic nonlinear optical crystals (DSTMS, OH1) and a compact femtosecond pump laser (1560 nm) with MHz repetition rate and ultrashort pulse width (<40 fs). By optimizing the optical geometry, we achieve high SNR (>80 dB at 4 THz, >70 dB at 10 THz). Our theoretical model agrees well with experiments. We ...

   Conference Paper

3. DNA-Based Replication of Programmable Colloidal Assemblies 

   van Kesteren, Steven; Diethelm, Pascal; Jung, Se-Hyeong; et al. (2024)

   Small

   Nature uses replication to amplify the information necessary for the intricate structures vital for life. Despite some successes with pure nucleotide structures, constructing synthetic microscale systems capable of replication remains largely out of reach. Here, a functioning strategy is shown for the replication of microscale particle assemblies using DNA-coated colloids. By positioning DNA-functionalized colloids using capillary forces ...

   Journal Article

4. Mechanisms that link climate, soil properties and microbes to macroscale soil organic carbon dynamics: Insights from a geoclimatic gradient 

   Wasner, Daniel (2024)

   Adequate representation of the soil organic carbon (SOC) cycle at the macroscale (km to global) is important in order to understand and predict the implications of SOC dynamics for the climate and our planet. Such adequate representation is challenging, because mechanistic knowledge about soils is derived from the much smaller mesoscale (mm to m). However, the dominant mechanisms and controls of the SOC cycle vary across scales. Therefore, ...

   Doctoral Thesis

5. EIGER. V. Characterizing the Host Galaxies of Luminous Quasars at z ≳ 6 

   Yue, Minghao; Eilers, Anna-Christina; Simcoe, Robert A.; et al. (2024)

   The Astrophysical Journal

   We report JWST/NIRCam measurements of quasar host galaxy emissions and supermassive black hole (SMBH) masses for six quasars at 5.9 < z < 7.1 in the Emission-line galaxies and Intergalactic Gas in the Epoch of Reionization (EIGER) project. We obtain deep NIRCam imaging in the F115W, F200W, and F356W bands, as well as F356W grism spectroscopy of the quasars. We use bright unsaturated stars to construct models of the point-spread functions ...

   Journal Article

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