News

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 SFB 1381 track of the Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine (SGBM).

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.

The newly established CryoEM facility at the University of Freiburg conducted a successful introductory workshop with the support from SFB 1381.

Our SFB 1381 doctoral student Antonia Eidloth (project B07) has been admitted by the prestigious “Deutsche Studienstiftung”.

Introducing our new series “SFB 1381’s Female Minds”

For two days, the project leaders of the SFB 1381 gathered in Müllheim to discuss the progress of their projects and the overall status of the collaborative research centre.

Projects Bo6 and Z01 from our SFB hosted the workshop “Cross-linking as a tool for analyzing protein machineries“

SFB 1381 PI Pitter Huesgen received funding for a new project (B13N) in our collaborative research centre.

Khaled Selim (project B12) has been awarded a DFG-funded Emmy Noether Fellowship.

To mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2025, the journal FEBS Open Bio. invited our SFB PI Asifa Akthar (B03)  for a discussion with the final year PhD student Klaudia Jaczynsk.

In a joint study by SFB 1381 PIs Valerie Hilgers (B02) and Nora Vögtle (B04) the protein Pumilio was shown to preferably bind to long neuronal 3′ UTRs, which leads to specific localization of the mRNA and thereby spatial regulation of protein synthesis in neurons. Published in EMBO reports.

SFB 1381 – SGBM student Hong Jiang (project B06) defended his PhD thesis successfully.

A tiny ferredoxin (Shetna protein II ) protects nitrogenase, the enzyme of biological nitrogen fixation, from being irreversebly damaged by exposure to oxygen. Study by SFB 1381 PI Oliver Einsle (A04), published in Nature.