RTG 2737 – STRESSistance
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“Meet the-role-model” career session with Dr. Anke Lischeid
Yesterday we were very happy to have Dr. Anke Lischeid visit us at RPTU in Kaiserslautern. Dr. Lischeid is working as Manager for Innovation & Transfer Life Sciences at the Rhineland-Palatinate Innovation Agency. This agency is affiliated with the ministry and is...
Guest seminar with Nathalie Delgehyr
On May 18, 2026 we had the pleasure to welcome Dr. Nathalie Delgehyr (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, France) for a guest talk and a round table discussion with our PhD students. Her talk on "Actin-based deformations of the nucleus control brain multiciliated cell...
A warm welcome to Krishan from Edmonton/Canada
We cordially welcome Krishan Rattan from the University of Alberta in Edmonton to our graduate program STRESSistance. Krishan is enrolled in the University of Alberta Undergraduate Research Abroad Program, which enables students from the Department of Biochemistry to...
Amanda gave a lecture at the ISOP conference in Prague
The International Society of Protistologists (ISOP) has held its major meeting in Prague from April 19 to 23, 2026. The event took place at the Grand Hotel International Prague. We were delighted that our PhD student Amanda Okolie (Ecology group/Sabine Filker),...
Zuzana Storchová elected as new Chief Equal Opportunity Officer at RPTU
On March 18, 2026, the Senate of the RPTU appointed our PI Professor Zuzana Storchová as the new Chief Equal Opportunity Officer. Her three-year term runs until 2029. Juliane Märdian serves as her deputy. They both will support the Executive Board and the other...
New joint publication by two of our PhD students
Congratulations to the authors, especially to Meerim Arystanbek (STRESSistance-PhD student in the Neuhaus lab) and Felix Jung (STRESSistance-PhD student in the Mühlhaus lab). Arystanbek Kyzy M, Jung F, Mühlhaus T, Müller V, Reinhardt F, Heide A, Bellin L, Keller I,...
Happy about two new joint STRESSistance publications
We extend our sincerest congratulations to the authors, especially to our former doctoral students Dr. Johannes Ebding and Dr. Daio Lasser and our current associated doctoral student Marlen Barth (all from the Pielage lab). Ebding J, Barth M, Lion LM, Gackstatter A,...
New STRESSistance publication
Congratulations to the authors, especially to our former PhD student Dr. Anna Probst (Schroda group). Probst A, Schmollinger S, Berg J, Unger A, Strenkert D, Geimer S, Sommer F, Schroda M (2026) Depletion of chloroplast HSP70B triggers proteostasis collapse and...
Congratulations to Meerim, who successfully defended her doctoral thesis today
On Wednesday, 18 March 2026, our PhD student Meerim Arystanbek Kyzy (Plant Physiology/Neuhaus lab) successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled “Molecular characterisation of selected vacuolar sugar transporters from Arabidopsis thaliana and their role in...
New joint STRESSistance publication
Congratulations to the authors, especially to our PhD student Laura Leiskau (Biochemistry) and to our PIs Marcel Deponte (Biochemistry), Timo Mühlhaus (Computational Systems Biology) and Johannes Herrmann (Cell Biology). The scientists involved in the study have...