News

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.

Sucessfull PhD defense in project A09 by SFB 1381-SGBM student Claudia Juraske.

The SFB 1381 hosted a successful workshop on utilizing AI tools for research, led by SFB PI Viviane Timmermann.

The two paralogous proteins NRBP1 and NRBP2 exert opposing effects on the integrity of the LINE-1 ribonucleoprotein (RNP) machinery, thereby regulating LINE-1 retrotransposition. This discovery, made by project B09 (Baumeister), has been published in Nature Communications.

A newly discovered role of LRBA in regulating antigen presentation via autophagy sheds light into the mechanisms underlying T-cell dysregulation in LRBA deficiency. Study by SFB 1381 PIs Laura Gámez-Díaz and Claudine Kraft (both B10), published in EMBO Reports.

SFB 1381 PI Dr. Valérie Hilgers has been appointed as Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Basel.

SFB 1381 – SGBM student Vincent Idstein (Project A09) defended his PhD thesis successfully.

Three new doctoral students have been accepted into the Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine (SGBM) SFB 1381 track.

Asifa Akhtar (Project B03) has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Royal Society appreciating her scientific contributions and her leadership.

A research team including SFB 1381 PIs Friedel Drepper, Pitter Huesgen and Thorsten Hugel showed that a flexible protein domain in the TAF2 protein determines its localisation and interactions with the transcription machinery. Published in Cell Reports.