Prof. Dr. Jens Müller
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Prof. Dr. Jens Müller
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie
Room E307
Corrensstr. 28/30
48149 Münster
Germany
T: +49 251 83-36006 / 83-36611 (PA)
F: +49 251 83-36007
bioanorganik@uni-muenster.de
External Profiles:

  • CV

    Education

    Graduate student at TU Dortmund University (with Bernhard Lippert)
    Diploma studies of chemistry at TU Dortmund University and at University College London

    Positions

    W3-Professor in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Münster
    W2-Professor in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Münster
    Independent Research Group Leader at TU Dortmund University (within the Emmy Noether program of the DFG)
    Postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (with Stephen J. Lippard) and Harvard Medical School (with Gerhard Wagner)

    Honors

    Goldener Brendel – Fachschaft Chemie der Universität Münster
    Goldener Brendel – Fachschaft Chemie der Universität Münster
    Goldener Brendel – Fachschaft Chemie der Universität Münster

    External Functions

    Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC) (Council, Member)
    Editor, Inorganica Chimica Acta (Editor)
    Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry (Editorial Board, Member)
    COST Action CM1105 ("Functional metal complexes that bind to biomolecules") (Chairman, Chairman)
    Working Group Coordinator in the COST Action D39 ("Metallo-Drug Design and Action")

  • Scientific Talks

    • Müller, J. (): ‘Metal-Modified Nucleic Acids: From Silver(I)-Mediated Base Pairs to Phosphorescent Platinum(II)-Bearing DNA’. 2024 Dr. Michael Baird Lecture, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Site-specific metalation of DNA oligonucleotides with phosphorescent platinum(II) complexes’. International Symposium on Bioorganometallic Chemistry, Braunschweig, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Metal-Modified DNA – Introducing Metal-Based Functionality into Nucleic Acids’. 2nd Northwestern/Münster Symposium on Smart Materials (Northwestern University), Evanston, IL, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Recent progress inmetal-mediated base pairing’. 16th International Symposium on Applied Bioinorganic Chemistry, Ioannina, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Metal-Modified Nucleic Acids: From Silver(I)-Mediated Base Pairs to Phosphorescent Platinum(II)-Bearing DNA’. Annual Symposium on Recent Advances in Synthesis and Chemical Biology XXI (Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology (CSCB)), Dublin, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Metal-Mediated Base Pairs and their Possible Applications’. 6th Annual Symposium of the Irish Biological Inorganic Chemistry Society (Irish Biological Inorganic Chemistry Society), Dublin, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Light-Induced Formation of Metal-Mediated Base Pairs’. 16th European Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry, Grenoble, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Metal-Mediated Base Pairs and their Possible Applications’. XXXVIII Reunión Bienal Real Sociedad Española de Quimica, Granada, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Metal-Modified DNA: Merging Bioinorganic Chemistry with Supramolecular Chemistry’. Anorganisch-Chemisches Kolloquium, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘DNA with metal-mediated base pairs’. International Conference on Materials Science and Computation (Bangladesh Association for Computational and Materials Science), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Zoom Conference, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Metal-Modified DNA: Merging Bioinorganic Chemistry with Supramolecular Chemistry’. 7th International Symposium on SupraBiomolecular Systems, Zoom Conference, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Metal-Modified DNA: Where Bioinorganic Chemistry Meets Supramolecular Chemistry’. 15th European Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry, Reykjavík, Iceland, Zoom Conference, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Metal-mediated base pairs in DNA: from characterization to application’. 3rd International Conference on Water Soluble Metal Complexes, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany, .
    • Müller J. (): ‘New Metal-Mediated Base Pairs – Beyond Silver(I)’. 19th International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry, Interlaken, Switzerland, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Metal-Mediated Base Pairing with a Phenanthroline-Derived Artificial Nucleobase’. 15. International Symposium on Applied Bioinorganic Chemistry, Nara, Japan, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Recent developments in metal-mediated base pairing’. 1793. Zasshikai Seminar, University of Tokyo, Japan, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Metal-mediated base pairing using the artificial nucleobase 1H-imidazo[4,5-f][1,10]-phenanthroline’. 7th EuCheMS Conference on Nitrogen Ligands, Lisbon, Portugal, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Metal-mediated base pairs and their applications’. 14th European Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry, Birmingham, United Kingdom, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Metal-modified DNA: Where Supramolecular Coordination Chemistry Meets Bioinorganic Chemistry’. Research Seminar, Technische Universität München, Germany, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Metal ions inside of DNA – Site-specific functionalization of nucleic acids with transition metal ions’. Anorganisch-Chemisches Kolloquium, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘A metal-mediated base pair that discriminates between the canonical pyrimidine nucleobases’. 14. International Symposium on Applied Bioinorganic Chemistry, Toulouse, France, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Metal ions inside of DNA – Site-specific functionalization of nucleic acids with transition metal ions’. Anorganisch-Chemisches Kolloquium, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Metal-mediated base pairing using 1H-imidazo[4,5-f][1,10]phenanthroline as artificial nucleobase’. Beilstein Symposium 2016 on Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Prien am Chiemsee, Germany, .
    • Müller, J. (): „Imidazophenanthrolin in metallvermittelten Basenpaaren: von enantiospezifischer Komplexbildung zur Erkennung komplementärer Nucleobasen in DNA“. 18. Vortragstagung der Wöhler-Vereinigung für Anorganische Chemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘1,N6-Ethenoadenine: A new nucleobase for metal-mediated base pairing’. 13th European Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry, Budapest, Hungary, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Metal-mediated base pairing: Imidazophenanthroline as an example for an artificial nucleobase’. 99th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Halifax, Canada, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Imidazophenanthroline as an artificial nucleobase for metal-mediated base pairing’. 3rd International Symposium on Functional Metal Complexes that Bind to Biomolecules, Universitat de Les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Metal ions inside of DNA: Site-specific functionalization of nucleic acids with transition metal ions’. Research Seminar, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, .
    • Müller, J. (): „Metalle im Innern von DNA: Positionsspezifische Funktionalisierung von Nucleinsäuren mit Übergangsmetallionen“. Anorganisch-Chemisches Kolloquium, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Silver(I)-mediated base pairing in parallel-stranded DNA’. 65th Conference of the Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry, Nara, Japan, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Imidazo[4,5-f][1,10]phenanthroline as Nucleobase in Metal-Mediated Base Pairing’. 2nd Japan-Germany Joint Symposium on Coordination Chemistry, Nara, Japan, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘A Highly Stabilizing Silver(I)-Mediated Base Pair in Parallel-Stranded DNA’. 17th International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry, Beijing, China, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Silver(I)-mediated base pairing in parallel-stranded DNA’. 13th International Symposium on Applied Bioinorganic Chemistry, Galway, Ireland, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Silver(I)-Mediated Base Pairs: A Combined Experimental and Computational Approach’. Theory of metal atoms, clusters and nanoparticles stabilized by organic matter workshop, Espoo, Finland, .
    • Müller, J. (): „Metalle im Innern von DNA: Positionsspezifische Funktionalisierung von Nucleinsäuren mit Übergangsmetallionen“. Fachkolloquium des Clusters Synthese und Materialien, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Discrimination of cytosine and thymine via metal-mediated base pairing with an artificial nucleoside analogue’. 12th European Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry, Zurich, Switzerland, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘1,2,3-Triazole-Based Nucleosides for Metal-Mediated Base Pairing’. 2nd International Symposium on Functional Metal Complexes that Bind to Biomolecules, Universität Zürich, Switzerland, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Metals Inside of DNA: Site-Specific Functionalization of Nucleic Acids with Metal Ions’. GDCh-Vortrag, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Metals Inside of DNA: Site-Specific Functionalization of Nucleic Acids with Metal Ions’. Research Seminar, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘1,2,3-Triazole-Based Nucleosides for Metal-Mediated Base Pairing’. International Symposium on Coordination Programming, Tokyo, Japan, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Metals Inside of DNA: Site-Specific Functionalization of Nucleic Acids with Metal Ions’. Institutskolloquium, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Cooperative formation of metal-mediated base pairs’. 16th International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry, Grenoble, France, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Site-specific incorporation of metal ions into nucleic acids’. SupraChem 2013, Münster, Germany, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Silver(I)-Mediated Base Pairs: A Combined Experimental and Computational Approach’. HRSMC-Symposium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Silver(I)-Mediated Base Pairs in DNA’. 39. International Symposium on Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Nagoya, Japan, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Metals Inside of DNA: Site-Specific Functionalization of Nucleic Acids with Metal Ions’. 1439th Zasshikai Seminar, University of Tokyo, Japan, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Chimeric GNA/DNA metal-mediated base pairs’. 11th European Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference, Granada, Spain, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘DNA with Silver(I)-Mediated Base Pairs’. V. EuCheMS Conference on Nitrogen Ligands, Granada, Spain, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Doubly metal-mediated base pairs in DNA duplexes’. 15th International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry, Vancouver, Canada, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘B-type DNA Comprising Contiguous Silver(I)-Mediated Base Pairs’. 3rd International Symposium on Metallomics, Münster, Germany, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Metals Inside of DNA: Site-Specific Functionalization of Nucleic Acids with Metal Ions’. Seminar Talk, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘DNA with Hoogsteen-type metal-mediated base pairs’. XI. International Symposium on Inorganic Biochemistry, Kudowa-Zdrój, Poland, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘B-type DNA with Consecutive Silver(I)-Mediated Base Pairs’. 10th European Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Nucleic Acids with Consecutive Metal-Mediated Base Pairs’. 5th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry, Nara, Japan, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Metals in the Middle of DNA: Site-Specific Functionalization of Nucleic Acids with Metal Ions’. Stratingh Institute Seminar Series, Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands, .
    • Müller, J. (): „Metalle im Innern von DNA: Zur Funktionalisierung von Nucleinsäuren mit Metallionen“. GDCh-Vortrag, Universität Bielefeld, Germany, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Site-Specific Functionalization of Nucleic Acids with Metal Ions’. Vielberth-Symposium on Functional Nucleic Acids , Regensburg, Germany, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Using Artificial Nucleosides for the Site-Specific Functionalization of Nucleic Acids with Metal Ions’. 14th International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry, Nagoya, Japan, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Metals in the Middle of DNA: Site-Specific Functionalization of Nucleic Acids with Metal Ions’. CeNTech Day 2009, Center for Nanotechnology, Münster, Germany, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Metalle im Innern von DNA: Zur Funktionalisierung von Nucleinsäuren mit Metallionen’. AC-Kolloquium, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany, .
    • Müller, J. (): „Metalle im Innern von DNA: Zur Funktionalisierung von Nucleinsäuren mit Metallionen“. Montagskolloquium, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany, .
    • Müller, J. (): ‘Metals in the Middle of DNA: Nucleic Acids with Metal-Mediated Base Pairs’. IRTG Minisymposium, Lunds Universitet, Lund, Sweden, .
    • Müller, J. (): „Nucleinsäuren mit metallvermittelten Basenpaaren“. 14. Vortragstagung der Wöhler-Vereinigung für Anorganische Chemie, Technische Universität München, Germany, .