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Our new doctoral student Celina Nauerz (Cell Biology; left picture) was awarded the GBM Master’s Prize for her outstanding master’s thesis. There, she investigated the early stages of mitochondrial protein import and identified cytosolic chaperones that interact with...

We cordially welcome Celine Nauerz, our new associated PhD student in the Cell Biology group of our spokesperson Hannes Herrmann. The photo shows Celina (left) together with our doctoral student Annika Egeler during a visit to the lab of Professor L. Stirling...

From July 19 to 24, 2026, the Gordon Research Conference on Mitochondria and Chloroplasts took place in Newry, Maine, United States. STRESSistance was represented there by two of our doctoral students and a principal investigator: Our spokesperson, Hannes Herrmann,...

On Monday this week (07/13/26) we had the pleasure to welcome Prof. Michael Lenhard from the Institute for Biochemistry and Biology at the University of Potsdam, who is studying the genetic and molecular basis of organ-size control in plants, and its evolutionary...

We cordially welcome our new associated doctoral student Jennifer Kleiber in the Nanophysiology group of Tanja Maritzen. We wish Jenny every success with her project and look forward to a successful collaboration.

As we kick off our second funding period, we cordially welcome our new PI, Yury Bykov. Yury was recently recruited to Kaiserslautern as a junior professor and his research will enrich the STRESSistance focus in the field of quantitative cell biology. We are very much...

We warmly welcome Alisa Tse, our third guest student of the University of Alberta Undergraduate Research Abroad Program in 2026. For the upcoming six weeks, Alisa will work on a research project supervised by our PhD spokesperson Benjamin Ziehmer in the Nanophysiology...

We are very pleased and grateful that the results and prospects of our research convinced the decision-makers at the DFG and that our funding has been extended for another four and a half years. This gives us the opportunity to continue our research projects and help...

The RPTU Friends Association in Kaiserslautern has awarded nine prizes to outstanding young researchers. Among them is one of our former doctoral students, Dr. Jan-Eric Bökenkamp (Molecular Genetics/Storchová lab). Congratulations - we are very proud of you! (Foto:...