RTG 2737 – STRESSistance
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Fiorella successfully defended her doctoral thesis
On Thursday, 27 November 2025, our PhD student Fiorella Mazzone (Nanophysiology/Maritzen lab) successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled "Dynamic modulation of endocytic protein sorting for counteracting stress conditions". Congratulations! We wish Fiorella...
Guest seminar with Carsten Sachse
Today we had the pleasure to welcome Prof. Carsten Sachse from the Forschungszentrum Jülich. Prof. Sachse was hosted by our PhD student-team Laura Fischer (Schroda lab) and Lora Ruggiu (Herrmann lab), who also organized the pre-talk meeting of their colleagues and the...
Alexandra successfully defended her PhD thesis
Congratulations to Alexandra Hilse (Maritzen lab) on the successful defense of her doctoral thesis within our RTG entitled “Dissecting the molecular mechanisms by which intersectins shape neurotransmission”. You did a great job and we are very proud! We wish Alexandra...
Industrial visit Roche Mannheim
Yesterday we had the opportunity to spend an exciting morning at Roche Diagnostics in Mannheim. Following an informative introductory lecture about Roche worldwide and the Mannheim site, the agenda included a laboratory equipment demonstration for tissues and a visit...
Start of our guest seminar series in winter term 2025/26
To organize our guest seminar series this semester, two of our doctoral students from different groups have teamed up and suggested guests from academia or industry whose research areas, career paths, or current activities are of particular interest to as many of...
Congratulations to Büsra, who successfully graduated today.
Congratulations to Büsra Kizmaz from the Hermann lab on the successful defense of her doctoral thesis entitled “The mitochondrial comrade-of-prohibitin (cohibitin) complex facilitates the biogenesis of inner membrane proteins“. Very well done! We wish Büsra all the...
Again successful STRESSistance Graduation!
Congratulations to Dario Lasser (Pielage lab) on the successful defense of his doctoral thesis entitled “The ubiquitinating enzymes Effete/UbcD1 and Herc2 control synaptic growth and cytoskeletal organization at the Drosophila NMJ“. We are very proud and wish Dario...
New publication by two of our PhD students
The paper describes a new method for monitoring the efficiency of mitochondrial transport of a specific protein in living yeast cells. Congratulations to Annika Egeler (STRESSistance-PhD student of the second generation in the Herrmann lab) and Saskia Rödl (first...
Visit of Yuina Otani (PhD student in Japan)
The last two days we had the pleasure of hosting Yuina Otani in Kaiserslautern. Yuina is a doctoral student in Japan, she recently met Lorenz Wagner (doctoral student in the Herrmann lab) at the OsakaMito2025 and TokyoMito2025 conferences. On her way to a conference...
New STRESSistance publication
Congratulations to the authors, especially to our PhD students Laura Leiskau and Lea Bambach and to our PI Marcel Deponte (Biochemistry). As the title of the publication suggests, the authors believe to have finally found the long-sought second substrate/reducing...