RTG 2737 – STRESSistance
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We welcome Jakob to his research stay in our RTG
Jakob Schneider is a visiting PhD student from Paul Schanda’s lab in Vienna (Institute of Science and Technology Austria, ISTA). He is studying the structure and function of the Tom70 receptor of mitochondria. Tom70 connects mitochondrial function to the cytosolic...
Guest seminar with Daniel Weckbecker
Last Tuesday, May 23, 2023, we welcomed a former PhD student of our spokesperson as guest speaker in our Research Training Group. Dr. Daniel Weckbecker received his PhD from RPTU in 2012 as a member of the RTG 845 in the Cell Biology group of Johannes Herrmann and is...
Congratulations to Saskia for another RTG publication
Saskia (Rödl) has a new paper (Review) together with our spokesperson Hannes. It includes great pictures she made. The work on the role of the proteasome in mitochondrial protein quality control was published today at IUBMB Life. Well done, dear Saskia....
Welcome to Emma and Subhana from Edmonton
We warmly welcome two biochemistry undergraduate students from the University of Alberta (UoA) in Edmonton (Canada) for their six weeks research internships within our RTG. Emma Schlosser and Subhana Tazrian are participating in the UoA Undergraduate Research Abroad...
Guest seminar with Prof. Behrends
Within the frame of our guest seminar series and in cooperation with the Biological Colloquium of the Faculty of Biology at RPTU we were pleased to host Prof. Christian Behrends from the Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology/LMU Munich on Monday this week (May 8,...
First PhD student retreat
The first retreat of our PhD students was scheduled April 20/21, 2023. It was held in the "Gemeinschaftszentrum" Trippstadt and included a tight scientific program with various lecture sessions, e.g. on methods used in our RTG, a poster session and a workshop on...
Happy about another RTG publication
We are pleased about another RTG 2737 publication and especially congratulate our PhD student Felix Fung from Timo Mühlhaus' group for the first authorship. Very well done! The article on a powerful and efficient tool for large-scale prediction of the thermal...
Guest seminar with Katja Hansen
On Thursday, April 6 we had the pleasure to welcome Dr. Katja Hansen, postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. We highly appreciated her interesting talk on "Mitochondrial RNA spatial distribution changes as a response to...
Online guest seminar with Martin Schattat
Today we had the pleasure to welcome Dr. Martin Schattat from the Plant Cell Biology department of the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg for a guest seminar in our Research Training Group. Unfortunately, he could not come to Kaiserslautern as originally...
Guest seminar with Laura Czech
Last Tuesday (March 14, 2023) we were pleased to welcome Dr. Laura Czech from the Center for Synthetic Microbiology at the University in Marburg to our graduate program. Prior to her great talk about "Stress adaptation in bacteria: from osmotic stress response to...