Inspiring Film Event: Picture a Scientist Feb 9, 2026 Following an in-person screening of the documentary Picture a Scientist, a lively and thought-provoking discussion was led by SFB 1381 PIs Valérie Hilgers, Claudine Kraft, and Nora Vögtle.
Interactions between chaperones and the ribosomal machinery revealed by cryo-EM Feb 6, 2026 SFB 1381 PIs Sabine Rospert, Thorsten Hugel and David Haselbach delineate the cotranslational cycle of the ribosome-bound Hsp70 homolog Ssb. Publication in Nature Communications.
“Picture a Scientist” Jan 15, 2026 Join us for the screening of the movie “Picture a Scientist”, followed by an open discussion on February 4.
Successful PhD defense of SFB 1381 student Shamphavi Sivabalasarma – congrats! Jan 15, 2026 SFB 1381 – SGBM fellow Shamphavi Sivabalasarma (project A01) defended her doctoral thesis at the University of Freiburg.
Ipek Akol accepted by prestigious Hans A. Krebs Medical Scientist Program Dec 22, 2025 SFB 1381 Young Investigator Grantee Ipek Akol (YIG03) has been selected as a Hans A. Krebs Medical Fellow at the University of Freiburg.
Cryo-EM Workshop: Basics of Single Particle Analysis Dec 10, 2025 Following the successful introductory cryo-EM workshop in May, our Cryo-EM Facility organized a workshop focused on cryo-EM data analysis.
SFB 1381 Early Career Researcher Retreat 2025 Dec 8, 2025 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.
PhD defense of SFB 1381 student Mohd Areeb – congrats! Dec 3, 2025 SFB 1381 – SGBM fellow Mohd Areeb (project B08) successfully defended his PhD at the University of Freiburg.
SFB 1381 workshop explored cutting-edge advances in protein structure prediction Dec 1, 2025 Project A04 hosted a fruitful workshop: “Practical Approaches to Protein Structure Prediction: AlphaFold and More“.
Elena Sindram successfully defended her PhD thesis – congratulations! Nov 13, 2025 PhD defense of Elena Sindram from the SFB 1381 project B10 at the University of Freiburg.
ERC Synergy Grant for SFB 1381 PI Claudine Kraft Nov 7, 2025 SFB 1381 PI Claudine Kraft (project B10) and her partners from Vienna and Berkeley have been awarded a prestigious ERC Synergy Grant.
Joint Event Series “Career Paths in Life Sciences” Oct 29, 2025 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.
SFB 1381 student Arpita Nandy defended her doctoral thesis – congrats! Oct 16, 2025 Successful PhD defense of SFB 1381 – SGBM fellow Arpita Nandy (project B04) at the University of Freiburg.
Wübben Foundation Student Grant for Frédéric Sonak Oct 9, 2025 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.
SFB 1381 Mini Symposium “Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Dynamic Protein Machineries” Oct 1, 2025 Central project Z01 hosted a successful Mini Symposium on proteomic techniques, bringing together experts in the field and stimulating novel ideas within our SFB.
Horizontal gene transfer of the functional archaellum machinery to a distinct group of bacteria Sep 17, 2025 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.
Synthetic trap-peptides allow the identification of the first phosphatase of the mitochondrial import machinery Sep 2, 2025 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 YIG Viviane Timmermann awarded prestigious Baden-Württemberg Stiftung funding Aug 28, 2025 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.