RTG 2737 – STRESSistance
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Another successful STRESSistance graduation in 2025
Today we congratulate our doctoral student Johannes Ebding from the Pielage lab (Zoology & Neurobiology) on the successful defense of his doctoral thesis entitled "Analysis of mitochondrial protein import stress induced progressive neurodegeneration in...
Saskia successfully defended her doctoral thesis
On Thursday, 18 December 2025, our PhD student Saskia Zeilfelder (Molecular Biotechnology/Schroda lab) successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled “„Analysis of the vesicle-inducing protein in plastids 1 (VIPP1) as an ESCRT-III superfamily member in chloroplast...
Congratulations to Jan-Eric, who successfully graduated today
The STRESSistance family sincerely congratulates Jan-Eric Bökemkamp from the Molecular Genetics lab on the successful defense of his doctoral thesis entitled “Integrative multi-omics meta-Analysis to uncover aneuploidy-induced vulnerabilities in cancer“. We are very...
Seminar about the use of Electronic lab books
As part of our guest lecture series in winter term 2025/2026, the STRESSistance doctoral students team Annika Egeler (Cell Biology) and Laura Pirrung Martinez (Neurobiology) invited Dr. Neele Drobnitzky from the BZH Heidelberg to present and share her experiences with...
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...