The Rogers Laboratory
at the University of Copenhagen 
Reprogramming nature's peptide-synthesis powerhouse, the ribosome, to synthesize highly non-proteinogenic peptides. Screening trillion+ libraries of cyclic peptides to isolate super-binders: molecules ready for use as research tools or for development into future drugs. Discovering molecules for unsolved problems in human health. Molecules, new in form, function, or both.
NEWS
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25th Feb 2022
Louise Walport, group leader at the Crick and fellow RaPID aficionado visits Copenhagen. Nice brunch with the group.
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3rd Dec 2021
Rogers lab Christmas party. All the Danish festive foods.
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16th Sept 2021
Group dinner to welcome the new students and visiting scholars to the lab. Interesting Thai food in Christiania, an interesting place.
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6th Sept 2021
Masters students Irene Olivas-Cano and Iben Jensen join the lab and start 'bootcamp'. Welcome!
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1st Sept 2021
CBP Annual retreat. Superb workshop on creativity, by Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher of the 'Night science' podcast. Warm-up exercise was an engineering task of the sort where children often outpreform adults. Mine and Fabian's tower was pretty good, draw your own conclusions.
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30 July 2021
Lab summer activity: boating around Copenhagen harbour. Some surprise Danish weather, but mostly nice and sunny.
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16 April 2021
Paper on N-methylated cyclic peptides for Lys48-ubiquitin chains now out in the April issue of RSC Chem Biol, alongside two (!) papers from our neighbours in the Olsen lab.
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01 April 2021
New paper featuring deep mutational scanning of a cyclic peptide. Structure-activity relationship of ipglycermide binding to phosphoglycerate mutases.
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06 Jan 2021
It's snowing.
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18 Dec 2020
New PhD student Janina 'Nina' Dahmen joins. Just in time for 2020, well done Nina.
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16 Dec 2020
One of the last Joe-in-Suga-lab publications, and it's a good one: new cyclic peptides with function in animals. In vivo modulation of ubiquitin chains by N-methylated non-proteinogenic cyclic peptides
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16 Nov 2020
New PhD student Fabian Hink joins. Glad to have you on board Fabian.
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22 Aug 2020
Joe can't walk up the stairs.
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21 Aug 2020
Inaugural Center for Biopharmaceuticals (CBP) triathlon, along the Amager coast.
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14 Aug 2020
Center for Biopharmaceuticals (CBP) Masters student's presentations and BBQ. Promising science, tasty food and Danish summer games.
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04 June 2020
First Rogers lab review and first publication proudly stamped "University of Copenhagen". Peptide Folding and Binding Probed by Systematic Non-canonical Mutagenesis
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28 May 2020
Joe's first day at ILF and in the new lab space. There's plenty of work to do.
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01 May 2020
Joe lands in Copenhagen and begins quarantine. Denmark and ILF is in covid lockdown, but prep for the lab (i.e. shopping) starts thanks to Janne and Heidi.