Stressistance

Guest seminar
2023-03-14 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Berlin) | TUK, 13-305
Dr. Laura Czech, Center for Synthetic Microbiology, Philipps-Universität Marburg
“Stress adaptation in bacteria: from osmotic stress response to membrane protein biogenesis”
Bacteria are masters of change – to survive environmental fluctuations, it requires sensing, signal transduction and adaptation. In their natural habitats, different ecosystems, and host-associated lifestyles bacteria are facing a large variety of biotic and abiotic stress factors challenging their growth and survival. Among abiotic stress factors are changes in osmotic potential, which bacteria face e.g., in the soil through desiccation rainfall cycles, during host infection or in the context of the human microbiome at the stomach-small intestine barrier. Moreover, microorganisms are exposed to changes in their environment due to fluctuations in temperature and the availability of nutrients. Here, I will first present bacterial adaptation systems to changes in external salt concentrations with a special focus on the widely used bacterial stress protectants ectoine and hydroxyectoine. From a more general perspective, I will introduce the bacterial second messengers (p)ppGpp, which function as central players of a pleiotropic metabolic adaptation mechanism named the stringent response. Finally, I will give detailed mechanistic insights how (p)ppGpp restricts the membrane insertion and secretion of proteins through interaction with the signal recognition particle (SRP).
(invited by Amanda Okolie / Filker group; pre-talk meeting with RTG doctoral students at 3 pm in 13-360)

Guest seminar
2023-02-28 16:00 - 17:00 | TUK, 13-305
Prof. Dr. Sean Sweeney, Reader in Neuroscience, Department of Biology, University of York, Heslington, York
“Functional linking of constitutive and responsive defences to oxidative stress in neurons”
(invited by Johannes Ebding & Dario Lasser / Pielage group; pre-talk meeting with RTG doctoral students at 3 pm in 13-360)

Guest seminar
2023-02-14 16:00 - 17:00 | TUK, 13-305
Prof. Dr. Jan Riemer, Biochemistry, University Cologne
“Redox processes in mitochondrial biogenesis and function”
(invited by Büsra Kizmaz & Saskia Rödl / Hermmann group; pre-talk meeting with RTG doctoral students at 3 pm in 13-360)

Mental Health Workshop
2023-01-27 09:00 - 17:00 | TUK, 46-225, Kaiserslautern, 67663, Germany
Mental Health and resilience for the PhD
Sarah Labudek / science birds GmbH

Guest seminar
2023-01-24 16:00 - 17:00 | TUK, 46-225, Kaiserslautern, 67663, Germany
Prof. Dr. Oliver Ebenhöh, Institut für Quantitative und Theoretische Biologie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf
“Computational analysis of photosynthetic electron flows linked with oxidative stress”
(invited by Felix Jung / Mühlhaus group; pre-talk meeting with RTG doctoral students at 3 pm in 13-360)

Guest seminar / Biological Colloquium
2023-01-16 17:15 - 18:15 | TUK, 42-110, Kaiserslautern, 67663, Germany
Prof. Dr. Ben Engel, Biozentrum, University of Basel
“Exploring the molecular architecture of photosynthetic organelles with cryo-electron tomography”
(invited by Saskia Zeifleder & Anna Probst / Schroda group; pre-talk meeting with RTG doctoral students at 4 pm in 23-182)

PI business meeting
2023-01-10 15:00 - 16:00 | TUK, 13-360
Miscellaneous

Internal network meeting
2022-12-06 15:30 - 17:00 | TUK, 13-360
Scientific networking and “Santa Claus celebration”

Debating workshop
2022-12-05 09:00 - 17:00 | TUK, 46-225, Kaiserslautern, 67663, Germany
Face to face workshop: I beg to differ! Debate training for research
(in cooperation with TU Nachwuchsring; for further information, please visit https://nachwuchsring.uni-kl.de/en/startseite/seite)

Guest seminar
2022-11-08 17:00 - 18:00 | TUK, 13-305
Prof. Dr. Katrin Philippar, Plant Biology, Saarland University, Saarbrücken
“Plant FAX proteins – molecular decoding of fatty acid transport in chloroplasts and ER”
(invited by Meerim Arystanbek/Neuhaus group; pre-talk meeting with RTG doctoral students at 3.30 pm in 13-360)

Workshop
2022-10-24 09:00 - 17:00 | Online
Online-Workshop Good Scientific Practice
Dr. Anne Hamker, Leipzig (Weiterbildung – Wissenschaftsberatung – Projektmanagement)

First RTG 2737 Symposium
2022-10-04 - 2022-10-06 | Freinsheim
Landhotel Altes Wasserwerk, Freinsheim

Guest seminar
2022-08-23 16:00 - 17:00 | TUK, 13-305
Dr. Joachim Scholz-Starke, Institute of Biophysics, National Research Council (CNR), Genoa, Italy
“The Curious Case of TMEM16/ Anoctamin Proteins: split into ion channels and phospholipid scramblases”

Theory & Practice Seminar
2022-07-26 17:00 - 18:30 | TUK
Stefanie Müller-Schüssele (Molecular Botany, TUK)
“Visualising cellular stress”

Theory & Practice Seminar
2022-07-12 17:00 - 18:30 | TUK, 13-360
Michael Schroda (Biotechnology, TUK)
“Synthetic biology based on modular cloning”

Guest seminar
2022-07-11 17:15 - 18:30 | RPTU, 52-207, Germany
Dr. Janine Kirstein, Cell Biology, University Bremen
“Chaperone-mediated regulation of the folding and spreading of amyloid proteins”

Barbecue
2022-07-05 17:00 - 20:00 | TUK
(between buildings 23 and 13, starting at about 5 pm)

Theory & Practice Seminar
2022-06-28 17:00 - 18:30 | TUK, 13-360
Ekkehard Neuhaus (Plant Physiology, TUK)
“Sugar homeostasis in plants under stress”

Theory & Practice Seminar
2022-06-14 17:00 - 18:30 | TUK
Timo Mühlhaus (Computational Cell Biology)
“The importance of FAIR research”

Theory & Practice Seminar
2022-05-24 17:00 - 18:30 | TUK
Jan Pielage (Zoology, TUK)
“Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying synapse formation, function and maintenance”

Guest Seminar
2022-05-23 17:15 - 18:00 | RPTU, 52-207, Germany
Prof. Stefan Pfeffer, ZHMB, University Heidelberg
“Structural insights into key steps of bacterial ribosome-associated quality”

(Pre-talk meeting at 4 pm in 13-360)

Theory & Practice Seminar
2022-05-10 17:00 - 18:30 | TUK, 13-360
Tanja Maritzen (TUK, Nanophysiology)
“Endocytic proteins as safeguards of synaptic function”

Theory & Practice Seminar
2022-04-26 17:00 - 18:30 | TUK, 13-360
Johannes Herrmann (Cell Biology, TUK)
“The mitoprotein-induced stress response”

Theory & Practice Seminar
2022-04-05 17:00 - 18:30 | TUK, 13-360
Marcel Deponte (Biochemistry, TUK)
“The ‘oxidative stress’ hypothesis in malaria research: facts and fiction”

Lab-Rotation-Week
2022-03-21 09:00 - 2022-03-24 14:00 | TUK

Theory & Practice Seminar
2022-03-08 17:00 - 18:30 | TUK, 46-267
Zuzana Storchová (Molecular Genetics, TUK)
“Aneuploidy – the cells out of balance”

Guest Seminar
2022-02-22 17:00 - 18:30 | Online
Prof. Dr. Joachim Deitmer (external)
“Good Scientific Practice”
online via Zoom

Theory & Practice Seminar
2022-02-08 17:00 - 18:30 | Online
Sabine Filker (Molecular Ecology, TUK)
“Ecophysiology of halophilic microeukaryotes”
online via Zoom

Welcome Meeting
2022-01-25 17:00 - 18:30 | Online
The meeting is primarily intended to get to know to each other. Thus, after a short introduction to the program by our spokesperson Hannes Herrmann, you PhD students and PIs will have the opportunity for brief introductions and chats.
