News

Join us for the screening of the movie “Picture a Scientist”, followed by an open discussion on February 4.

SFB 1381 Young Investigator Grantee Ipek Akol (YIG03) has been selected as a Hans A. Krebs Medical Fellow at the University of Freiburg.

Following the successful introductory cryo-EM workshop in May, our Cryo-EM Facility organized a workshop focused on cryo-EM data analysis.

A two-day retreat in Heidelberg united SFB 1381’s young researchers for lively scientific discussions and valuable networking, reinforcing the collaborative spirit of the consortium.

Project A04 hosted a fruitful workshop: “Practical Approaches to Protein Structure Prediction: AlphaFold and More“.

SFB 1381 PI Claudine Kraft (project B10) and her partners from Vienna and Berkeley have been awarded a prestigious ERC Synergy Grant.

Join us for our upcoming “Career Paths in Life Sciences” afternoon events, co-organised by SFB 1381 and RTG 2606, taking place on Nov 12 and Jan 14 this winter semester.

Frédéric Sonak, who is contributing to a collaborative project between SFB 1381 projects B10 and YIG05, has been honored with an award by the prestigious Wübben Stif­tung Wis­sen­schaft.

Central project Z01 hosted a successful Mini Symposium on proteomic techniques, bringing together experts in the field and stimulating novel ideas within our SFB.

The team of SFB 1381 PI Sonja Albers (project A01) has identified the archaellum machinery in several bacterial strains and solved the structure of the bacterial archaellum from Litorilinea aerophila using cryoEM. Published in Nature Microbiology.

A collaborative study by projects AI06 (Maja Köhn), B04 (Nora Vögtle), and A06 (Chris Meisinger) identified PP2A as a phosphatase of Tom 6 by deploying synthetic trap-peptides. Published in the FEBS Journal.

SFB 1381 Young Investigator Grantee Viviane Timmermann has received six years of highly competitive funding from the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung to lead her own independent research group.

In a collaborative study, SFB 1381 PIs Khaled Selim (B12) and Sonja Albers (A01) showed that the second messenger c-di-AMP, together with its receptor protein ComFB, regulates the contractile pilus machinery and thereby natural competence. Published in Cell Discovery.

Successful PhD defense in project A09 by SFB 1381 – SGBM student Claudia Juraske.