Publications

ChemRxiv

1.

J. Bösking, R. Jacobi, N. Alleva, R. EP Nau, J. Gačanin, L. González, T. Weil, A. Pannwitz

DNA-Liposome Hybrids Enable Energy Transfer Across Membrane Interfaces

Preprint on ChemRxiv, 2026
Submitted, in revision.

Patent applications

2.

Tanja Weil, Christopher Synatschke, Jasmina Gacanin, Jan Münch, Carina Conzelmann.

2024. Self-assembling peptides and hydrogels.

 

3.

Jasmina Gacanin, Luisa Wiechmann, Christopher V. Synatschke, Tanja Weil, Christoph Kayser, Thomas Lukowicz, Lena Petrozziello.

2024. Hybrid polymer comprising a polysaccharide polymer and peptide chains

 

4.

Jasmina Gacanin, Christopher Synatschke, Tanja Weil, Christoph Kayser, Thomas Lukowicz, Lena Petrozziello.

2025. Hybrid polymer comprising a polysaccharide polymer and peptide chains.

 

5.

Jasmina Gacanin, Francesca Mazzotta, Ingo Lieberwirth, Katharina Landfester, Tanja Weil.

2026. Hydrogel composition and uses thereof.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles and Reviews

6.

J. Gačanin*, F. Mazzotta*, L.A.Baptista, N. Stoyanov, M. Schmidt, N. Alleva, T. Thummaraj, F. Bonnicel, C. Zhou, L. Gao, J. Münch, M. Bonn, M. Fändrich, I. Lieberwirth, R. Cortes-Huerto, K. Landfester, T. Weil.

Sequence-encoded hexagonal lattices in multichannel peptide nanofibrils

Nature 657, 935–943 2026

 

7.

P. vonMaltitz, N. vanHilten, T. Weil, T. Thummaraj, J. Methorst, D. Aschmann, A. Kros, C. Read, J. Gačanin, H. Jelger Risselada, J. Münch

Identification and Characterization of an In Silico Designed Membrane‐Active Peptide with Antiviral Properties

Advanced Science 13, no. 16, e13911 2026

 

8.

K. Kaygisiz, A. M. Ender, J. Gačanin, L. A. Kaczmarek, D. A. Koutsouras, A. N. Nalakath, P. Winterwerber, F. J. Mayer, H.-J. Räder, T. Marszalek, P. W. M. Blom, C. V. Synatschke, T. Weil

Photoinduced Amyloid Fibril Degradation for Controlled Cell Patterning

Macromol. Biosci. 2023, 23, 2200294 2023

 

9.

Marco Hebel*,  Jasmina Gačanin*,  Thorsten Lückerath,  David Y. W. Ng,  Tanja Weil

Controlling Polymer Morphologies by Intramolecular and Intermolecular Dynamic Covalent Iron(III)/Catechol Complexation—From Polypeptide Single Chain Nanoparticles to Hydrogels

Macromol. Rapid Commun., 43: 2100413 2022

 

10.

Groß R, Bauer R, Krüger F, Rücker-Braun E, Olari L-R, Ständker L, Preising N, Rodríguez AA, Conzelmann C, Gerbl F, Sauter D, Kirchhoff F, Hagemann B, Gačanin J, Weil T, Ruiz-Blanco YB, Sanchez-Garcia E, Forssmann W-G, Mankertz A, Santibanez S, Stenger S, Walther P, Wiese S, Spellerberg B and Münch J

A Placenta Derived C-Terminal Fragment of β-Hemoglobin With Combined Antibacterial and Antiviral Activity

Front. Microbiol. 11:508 2020

 

11.

Jasmina Gačanin, Christopher V Synatschke, Tanja Weil

Biomedical Applications of DNA‐Based Hydrogels

Adv. Funct. Mater., 30, 1906253 2020

 

12.

Marco Hebel, Andreas Riegger, Maksymilian M. Zegota, Gönül Kizilsavas, Jasmina Gačanin, Michaela Pieszka, Thorsten Lückerath, Jaime A. S. Coelho, Manfred Wagner, Pedro M. P. Gois, David Y. W. Ng, and Tanja Weil

Sequence Programming with Dynamic Boronic Acid/Catechol Binary Codes

Journal of the American Chemical Society 141 (36), 14026-14031 2019

 

13.

M. Pieszka, A. M. Sobota, J. Gačanin, T. Weil, D. Y. W. Ng

Orthogonally Stimulated Assembly/Disassembly of Depsipeptides by Rational Chemical Design

ChemBioChem  2019

 

14.

J. Gačanin, J. Hedrich, S. Sieste, G. Glaßer, I. Lieberwirth, C. Schilling, S. Fischer, H. Barth, B. Knöll, C. V. Synatschke, T. Weil

Autonomous Ultrafast Self-Healing Hydrogels by pH-Responsive Functional Nanofiber Gelators as Cell Matrices

Adv. Mater., 31, 1805044 2019

 

15.

J. Gačanin*, A. Kovtun*, S. Fischer, V. Schwager, J. Quambusch, S. L. Kuan, W. Liu, F. Boldt, C. Li, Z. Yang, D. Liu, Y. Wu, T. Weil, H. Barth, A. Ignatius

Spatiotemporally Controlled Release of Rho-Inhibiting C3 Toxin from a Protein–DNA Hybrid Hydrogel for Targeted Inhibition of Osteoclast Formation and Activity

Adv. Healthcare Mater., 6, 1700392 2017

 

16.

Sylvia Schmid, Jasmina Gačanin, Yuzhou Wu, Tanja Weil, Peter Bäuerle

Synthesis and bioconjugation of first alkynylated poly(dithieno[3,2-b:2′,3′-d]pyrrole)s

Polym. Chem., 8, 7113-7118 2017