Michael Pinner – DNA-Robotics

The perspective for nano-sized DNA robots

Posted by oamon 29/11/202128/06/2022in Aitor Diaz, Alba Monferrer, Angel Santorelli, Igor Bars, Joakim Bohlin, Karol Kolataj, Lorena Baranda, Marco Lolaico, Michael Pinner, Mihir Dass, Minke Nijenhuis, Nestor Sampedro, Online Lectures, Publications, Quentin Vicentini, Rafa Carrascosa, Uncategorized, Yash BogawatLeave a comment

This articles aims to explain the basic concepts, perspectives and the main ethical considerations regarding the concept of DNA nano-robots. This outreach paper has been written with equal contributions from all the DNA-Robotics Early stage researches. Authors are listed in random order:

Quentin Vincentini, Lorena Baranda Pellejero, Aitor Patiño Díaz, Alba Monferrer i Sureda, Michael Pinner, Yash Bogawat, Minke Nijenhuis, Angel Santorelli, Nestor Sampedro, Marco Llocaico, Igor Baars, Mihir Dass, Karol Kolataj, Joakim Bohlin, Rafael Carrascosa Marzo.

Lipids for vesicular nanobots

Posted by oamon 21/12/2020in Michael Pinner, Online LecturesLeave a comment

Hello there, this is Michael! In my previous blog posts, I have given you sneak peeks into my day-to-day activities here at the Dietz lab in Munich. To contribute to our online lecture series, I would like to give you a deeper and more detailed view into the science and logics behind my work. What are lipid vesicles? What are lipids? What’s that got to do with DNA? And why does it matter?

Online Science Exhibition no. 9

Posted by oamon 27/10/202027/10/2020in Michael Pinner, Online Science ExhibitionLeave a comment

In this post for our Online Science Exhibition, PhD student Michael Pinner from Hendrik Dietz lab at TUM exhibits the process of visualizing DNA-Lipid hybrid structures by cryo-EM.

Science – it works! Or does it?

Posted by oamon 23/08/201928/08/2019in Blog, Michael Pinner1 Comment

“Science – it works!” – Every time I see somebody wearing a T-shirt with a print like this I don’t know how to feel. In times of increasing scepticism towards established and well-studied matters ranging from global warming to vaccination, it is great to see people standing up for science and advertising its successes on their chest. At the same time, I jokingly think to myself that surely anyone who has ever done research can confirm that science does, in fact, not work. Sometimes it may even feel like the most reproducible thing about science is its ability to lead young researcher to the brink of despair. In this blog post, I would like to share my own experiences after one year in grad school, and how my greatest challenges so far were those I expected the least.

Meet Michael Pinner

Posted by oamon 22/01/201923/08/2019in Blog, Michael PinnerLeave a comment

Hey there! My name is Michael Pinner, and I am one of the 15 early-stage researchers (ESRs) participating in the DNA-robotics research network. Born and raised in Vienna (Austria), I am now based in Munich (Germany) where I am working in the laboratory of Hendrik Dietz at TU Munich. Interdisciplinary research fields like ours naturally bring together researchers from a vast range of backgrounds, and in the following I would like to tell you my own story.