RTG 2737 – STRESSistance
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A successful PhD student retreat
The second self-organized retreat of our doctoral students took place from 29 to 30 April 2024 at the Kurpfalz Youth Hostel in Speyer. Our student assistants were also invited to take part in the event. In addition to several lecture and poster sessions, the program...
New joint paper!
We are pleased to announce a new joint publication in our Research Training Group. It is about a modular cloning toolkit for the production of recombinant proteins and was developed as part of a collaboration between members of our Research Training Group and the iGEM...
BIOspektrum article by STRESSistance members
Congratulations to Saskia and Michael on their nice BIOspektrum article on the Vesicle-Inducing Protein in Plastids (VIPP1; member of the ancient ESCRT-III family of membrane remodelling proteins), which is essential for the biogenesis and maintenance of thylakoid...
Guest seminar with Andreas Richter
Today, 19 March 2024 we had the pleasure to welcome Jun. Prof. Andreas Richter from the Department of Plant Metabolism at the University of Rostock for a talk within our guest seminar series. After several appointments with some of our PIs and PhD students during the...
New paper! Congratulations, Britta and Marcel.
We are pleased to announce a new paper within our Research Training Group. The topic of glutaredoxin-catalysed roGFP2 redox sensing is also relevant for STRESSistance, as roGFP2 is used as a redox probe in numerous organisms and subcellular compartments....
Application Training for Academics
An important aspect of our training concept is to support our doctoral students in their development as independent early career researchers and to prepare them for the transition to the postdoc phase or for planning a career outside academia. With regard to the...
Study: Group of enzymes helps to reduce stress in chloroplasts
In plants, stress such as heat or cold can lead to reactive oxygen oxidizing certain proteins in the chloroplasts, the sites of photosynthesis, meaning that electrons are taken away from them. As a result, they are often no longer able to perform their task. A team of...
First seminar in 2024 provided insights into personal career paths of former PhD students
On 9 January 2024, we were delighted to host the interesting and entertaining seminar by Dr Milena Hornburg (former PhD student of our PI Zuzana and external mentor of one of our PhD students, now Principal Scientist Bioinformatics at Genentech, San Francisco, USA)...
Great start into the New Year: 2nd joint paper published!
We are very happy about the first STRESSistance-publication in 2024, which is also our second joint paper. Congratulatins to the authors, especially to our PhD student Sadia Sayed Tamanna, her student assistant Hannah Jansohn and to our PIs Stefanie-Müller-Schüssele...