Prof. Dr. César Rodriguez-Emmenegger
The research program of the Rodriguez-Emmenegger group focuses in the development of synthetic and biohybrid adaptive interfaces able to interact with the environment drawing inspiration in the way living systems interact and communicate. The group's overarching goal is to understand how to balance the overall repellency with specific multivalent and cooperative attractive interactions to develop superselectivity at interfaces and to translate this to the medical field. Toward this aim synthetic polymer and supramolecular chemistry, physical chemistry, biophysics, and engineering converge in a highly interdisciplinary team. In particular the Emmenegger group is interested in synthesis of macromolecules with precise chemical composition, architecture and topology. These macromolecules are used to study and develop antifouling, antimicrobial surfaces, coatings that interact with blood and modulate uncontrolled coagulation, as well as active synthetic cells.
César Rodriguez-Emmenegger's publications via ORCID
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Curriculum Vitae
César was born in Salto, in the north of Uruguay. After studying Chemical Engineering (2001—2006) in the Universidad de la Republica he was awarded a research UNESCO-IUPAC internship (2006-2007) in the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry in Prague where he got hooked in the topic of polymers and biointerfaces. There he pursued his Ph.D. in Biophysics, Chemical and Macromolecular Physics under the supervision of Dr. E. Brynda and Prof. A. Bologna-Alles (2007—2012) working on optical biosensors and antifouling surfaces. Following a postdoctoral research at the group of Prof. C. Barner-Kowollik (Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship, 2012-2013), and research stays in Melville Laboratory in Cambridge (Prof. W.T.S. Huck, 2009), University of Pennsylvania (Prof. V. Percec, 2013, 2015) and Pasteur Institute in Lille (Prof. Lafont, 2015), César returned to Prague to start his independent group supported by a Junior Grant from GACR. In January 2016, his group joined DWI and expanded the research to adaptive interfaces and synthetic cells.
Selected professional functions, honors and awards
- 2020 Innovation Sprint RWTH
- 2015 Polymer Chemistry Emerging Investigators 2015 | Royal Society of Chemistry, UK
- 2014 Japan Society for the Promotin of Science, Postdoctoral Fellowship for North Americam and European Researches (ID No. PE14051, rejected for personal reasons)
- 2012 - 2013 Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
- 2006-2007 UNESCO-IUPAC Postgraduate Course in Polymer Science | Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
- 2001 Bronze Medal, 33rd International Chemistry Olympiad | Mumbai, India
- 2000 Bronze Medal, 6th Iberoamerican Chemistry Olympiad | Caracas, Venezuela
Projects
Publications
Titel/Autoren | DOI-LINK | Magazine | Jahre | |
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Glycan-Driven Formation of Raft-Like Domains with Hierarchical Periodic Nanoarrays on Dendrimersome Synthetic Cells
A. M. Wagner, N. Y. Kostina, Q. Xiao, M. L. Klein, V. Percec and C. Rodriguez-Emmenegger
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https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.3c01027 | Biomacromolecules | 2023 | |
Grafting of functional methacrylate polymer brushes by photoinduced SET-LRP
M. Vorobii, O. Pop-Georgievski, A. D. Pereira, N. Y. Kostina, R. Jezorek, Z. Sedlkova, V. Percec and C. Rodriguez-Emmenegger
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https://www.doi.org/10.1039/c6py01730d | Polymer Chemistry | 2016 | |
Green Solvent-Based Antifouling Polymer Brushes Demonstrate Excellent Hemocompatibility
J. Englert, M. Palà, L. Witzdam, F. Rayatdoost, O. Grottke, G. Lligadas and C. Rodriguez-Emmenegger
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https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c02765 | Langmuir | 2023 | |
Hepatitis B plasmonic biosensor for the analysis of clinical serum samples
T. Riedel, F. Surman, S. Hageneder, O. Pop-Georgievski, C. Noehammer, M. Hofner, E. Brynda, C. Rodriguez-Emmenegger and J. Dostalek
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https://www.doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2016.05.014 | Biosensors & Bioelectronics | 2016 | |
Improving Hemocompatibility of Membranes for Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenators by Grafting Nonthrombogenic Polymer Brushes
F. Obstals, M. Vorobii, T. Riedel, A. D. Pereira, M. Bruns, S. Singh and C. Rodriguez-Emmenegger
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https://www.doi.org/10.1002/mabi.201700359 | Macromolecular Bioscience | 2018 | |
Improving Hemocompatibility: How Can Smart Surfaces Direct Blood To Fight against Thrombi
F. Obstals, L. Witzdam, M. Garay-Sarmiento, N. Y. Kostina, J. Quandt, R. Rossaint, S. Singh, O. Grottke and C. Rodriguez-Emmenegger
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https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c01079 | ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces | 2021 | |
Interactive Hemocompatible Nanocoating to Prevent Surface-Induced Coagulation in Medical Devices
J. Quandt, M. Garay-Sarmiento, L. Witzdam, J. Englert, Y. Rutsch, C. Stöcker, F. Obstals, O. Grottke and C. Rodriguez-Emmenegger
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https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202201055 | Advanced Materials Interfaces | 2022 | |
Ionic Combisomes: A New Class of Biomimetic Vesicles to Fuse with Life
A. M. Wagner, J. Quandt, D. Söder, M. Garay-Sarmiento, A. Joseph, V. S. Petrovskii, L. Witzdam, T. Hammoor, P. Steitz, T. Haraszti, I. I. Potemkin, N. Y. Kostina, A. Herrmann and C. Rodriguez-Emmenegger
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https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202200617 | Advanced Science | 2022 | |
Kill&Repel Coatings: The Marriage of Antifouling and Bactericidal Properties to Mitigate and Treat Wound Infections
M. Garay-Sarmiento, L. Witzdam, M. Vorobii, C. Simons, N. Herrmann, A. de los Santos Pereira, E. Heine, I. El-Awaad, R. Lütticken, F. Jakob, U. Schwaneberg and C. Rodriguez-Emmenegger
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https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202106656 | Advanced Functional Materials | 2021 | |
Matter-tag: A universal immobilization platform for enzymes on polymers, metals, and silicon-based materials
S. Dedisch, A. Wiens, M. D. Davari, D. Söder, C. Rodriguez-Emmenegger, F. Jakob and U. Schwaneberg
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https://www.doi.org/10.1002/bit.27181 | Biotechnology and Bioengineering | 2019 | |
Membrane-Mimetic Dendrimersomes Engulf Living Bacteria via Endocytosis
N. Y. Kostina, K. Rahimi, Q. Xiao, T. Haraszti, S. Dedisch, J. P. Spatz, U. Schwaneberg, M. L. Klein, V. Percec, M. Moller and C. Rodriguez-Emmenegger
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https://www.doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02349 | Nano Lett | 2019 | |
Nanovesicles displaying functional linear and branched oligomannose self-assembled from sequence-defined Janus glycodendrimers
Q. Xiao, M. Delbianco, S. E. Sherman, A. M. Reveron Perez, P. Bharate, A. Pardo-Vargas, C. Rodriguez-Emmenegger, N. Y. Kostina, K. Rahimi, D. Söder, M. Möller, M. L. Klein, P. H. Seeberger and V. Percec
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https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2003938117 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2020 |