Prof. Dr. Barbara Di Ventura
Focus of research
- Synthetic biology
- Optogenetics
- Dynamical processes
CV
- Since 2017 Full Professor (W3) in Biological Signalling Research, BIOSS – Centre for Biological Signalling Studies and Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg
- 2011–2017 Head of the synthetic biology group at BioQuant, Heidelberg
- 2010–2011 Visiting scientist at the MPI for terrestrial microbiology, Marburg
- 2008–2011 Post-doctoral fellow in Victor Sourjik’s lab (BIOMS fellow), University of Heidelberg
- 2002–2006 Doctoral degree in Natural Sciences, EMBL Heidelberg, Luis Serrano’s lab
- 1996–2002 Graduation in Computer Engineering, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
Recent publications
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Sharavu, S. H., Bhagwat, S., Kluck, S., Konak, B. M. K., Di Ventura, B., Pezeshkpour, P., & Rapp, B. E. (2025). Two-photon lithography-fabricated deterministic lateral displacement microfluidic system for efficient minicell purification in cancer therapy. Biomedical Microdevices, 27(4), 42. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10544-025-00774-x
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Di Ventura, B. (2025). A transposon-like strategy for proteins. Nature Chemical Biology, 21(7), 980–982. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589-025-01947-8
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Schmitz, M., Ballestin Ballestin, J., Liang, J., Tomas, F., Freist, L., Voigt, K., Di Ventura, B., & Öztürk, M. A. (2024). Int&in: a machine learning‐based web server for active split site identification in inteins. Protein Science, 33(6), e4985. https://doi.org/10.1002/pro.4985
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Icking, L.-S., Riedlberger, A. M., Krause, F., Widder, J., Frederiksen, A. S., Stockert, F., Spädt, M., Edel, N., Armbruster, D., Forlani, G., Franchini, S., Kaas, P., Konak, B. M. K., Krier, F., Lefebvre, M., Mazraeh, D., Ranniger, J., Gerstenecker, J., Gescher, P., … Öztürk, M. A. (2024). iNClusive: a database collecting useful information on non-canonical amino acids and their incorporation into proteins for easier genetic code expansion implementation. Nucleic Acids Research, 52(D1), D476–D482. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkad1090
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Krause, F., Voigt, K., Di Ventura, B., & Öztürk, M. A. (2023). ReverseDock: a web server for blind docking of a single ligand to multiple protein targets using AutoDock Vina. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 10, 1243970. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2023.1243970