Publications


2019


Orts J, Aulikki Wälti M, Ghosh D, Campioni S, Saupe SJ, Riek R. Rational Structure-Based Design of Fluorescent Probes for Amyloid Folds. ChemBioChem: a european journal of chemical biology. 2019 May 2;20(9):1161-1166. doi: 10.1002/cbic.201800664

2018


Torres F, Orts J. Nuclear magnetic resonance structure-based drug design. Future Medicinal Chemistry. 2018 Oct;10(20):2373-2376. doi: 10.4155/fmc-2018-0160

Sundell GN, Arnold R, Ali M, Naksukpaiboon P, Orts J, Guntert P et al. Proteome-wide analysis of phospho-regulated PDZ domain interactions. Molecular Systems Biology. 2018 Aug;14(8):e8129. doi: 10.15252/msb.20178129

Orts J, Gossert AD. Structure determination of protein-ligand complexes by NMR in solution. Methods. 2018 Apr 1;138-139:3-25. doi: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2018.01.019

2017


Strotz D, Orts J, Chi CN, Riek R, Vogeli B. eNORA2 Exact NOE Analysis Program: Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 2017 Sept;13(9):4336-4346. doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00436

Nichols PJ, Born A, Henen MA, Strotz D, Orts J, Olsson S et al. The Exact Nuclear Overhauser Enhancement: Recent Advances. Molecules. 2017 Jul 14;22(7):1176. doi: 10.3390/molecules22071176

Wälti MA, Riek R, Orts J. Fast NMR-Based Determination of the 3D Structure of the Binding Site of Protein–Ligand Complexes with Weak Affinity Binders. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition. 2017 May 2;56(19):5208-5211. doi: 10.1002/anie.201612304

Waelti MA, Orts J, Riek R. Quenched hydrogen-deuterium exchange NMR of a disease-relevant Aß(1-42) amyloid polymorph. PLoS ONE. 2017 Mar;12(3):e0172862. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0172862

2016


Orts J, Wälti MA, Marsh M, Vera L, Gossert AD, Güntert P et al. NMR-Based Determination of the 3D Structure of the Ligand-Protein Interaction Site without Protein Resonance Assignment. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2016 Apr 6;138(13):4393-4400. doi: 10.1021/jacs.5b12391

Softwares

- INPHARMA: In the INPHARMA (Inter-ligands Nuclear Overhauser Effect for Pharmacophore Mapping) method, inter-ligand NOEs are used to derive the relative orientation of small molecular binders that compete for the same receptor site.

- eNORA

- NMR2

Molecular Structures

- NMR2 structure of BRD4-BD2 in complex with iBET-762: 7AQT

- Crystal Structure of HDM2 in complex with Caylin-1: 7QDQ

- Protein allostery of the WW domain at atomic resolution: apo structure: 6SVC

- Protein allostery of the WW domain at atomic resolution: pCdc25C bound structure: 6SVE

- Protein allostery of the WW domain at atomic resolution: FFpSPR bound structure: 6SVH

- Structural ensemble of the enzyme cyclophilin reveals an orchestrated mode of action at atomic resolution: 2N0T

- Crystal Structure of HDM2 in complex with Nutlin-3a: 5C5A

- NMR2 structure of TRIM24-BD in complex with a precursor of IACS-9571: 7B9X

Talks

ANZMAG (invited, plenary session)

Melbourne (2022)

RNA summer School (invited)

CEITEC (2022)

Boehringer Ingelheim (invited)

Vienna (2022)

Workshop on Computer-Aided Drug Discovery (invited)

Graz (2022)

MMCE (invited)

Primošten (2022)

Modern Concepts in Structural Biology (invited)

MFPL (2022)

AUREM (invited), 18th NMR Users Meeting 

Brazil online (2022)

ICMRBS (invited), Emerging Topics in Magnetic Resonance 

International online (2021)

Hunprotexc (invited)

Hungarian online (2021)

Drug Discovery Chemistry (invited), Small Molecules for Immunology, Oncology & COVID

International online (2021)

Lead Generation Strategies (invited)

Boston (2020)

Drug Discovery Chemistry (invited), Fragment-Based Drug Discovery

San Diego (2020)

Philochem AG (invited)

Oltefingen (2019)

Society for Medicines Research (invited)

Cambridge (2019)

Biophysical Approaches to Drug Discovery (invited)

San Diego (2019)

Gordon Research conference: drug design (invited)

Les Diablerets (2019)

University of Guelph (invited)

        Guelph (2019)

University of Basel (invited)

          Basel (2019)

Rhine-Knee Regional Meeting on Structural Biology

Emmetten (2018)

Drug Discovery Chemistry (invited)

San Diego (2018)

ANZMAG (invited)     

  Brisbane (2017)

SMASH (invited)

Baveno (2017)

Fragment Based Lead Discovery

Boston (2016)

AstraZeneca (invited)             

Cambridge (2016)

Structural Biology meets Biophysics

Obernai (2016)

Structural Biology Institute (invited)

Grenoble (2016)

University of Zürich (invited)   

Zürich (2016) 

EUROMAR     

     Aarhus (2016)

Euro Chemistry (invited)     

         Rome (2016)

Zobio (invited)             

Leiden (2016)

NMRS (NMR Society, invited)          

IIT-Kharagpur (2016)

III-Bern 14th International Summer School

  Böningen (2015)

Novartis Institute of Bio-medical research (invited)

 Basel (2014)

EPFL, Laboratory of Bio-NMR           

Lausanne (2014)

EUROMAR     

 Zürich (2014)

XXth Swiss NMR Symposium

Basel (2014)

Masaryk University (invited)   

Brno (2013)

Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC) (invited)

Brno (2013)

Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (invited)  

Strasbourg (2010)

EUROMAR (European magnetic resonance)                    

Saint-Petersburg (2008)

FGMR (Fachgruppe Magnetische Resonanzspektroskopie)       

  Göttingen (2007)

 

Julien featured in Drug Discovery Chemistry 2023 Highlights:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpMvC6GgZIo&t=13s

Grants and Awards

06.2019                      Discussion leader at the Gordon Research Seminars (intl. conference)

07.2015                      Chair at the EUROMAR (intl. NMR conference) in the Bio macromolecules session 

12.2013                      The Innolec prize, Innovation lecture (IC112), Masaryk University Brno 

01.2009-01.2010      PhD Grant, DAAD fellowship, Germany 

01.2007-01.2009      PhD Grant, Fonds der Chemischen IndustrieGermany

12.2007                      Prize Explora’Doc for excellent student, INP, France

09.2005                      Prize Explora’Sup for excellent student, INP, France 

Editorial Activities

Guest editor for the Konrat's Festschrift, a special issue of JMRO dedicated to the 60th birthday of Robert Konrat (to be release soon).