RTG 2737 – STRESSistance
News
Second STRESSistance publication
Congratulations to Saskia, Büsra and Hannes whose findings on the role of the yeast cytosolic ubiquitin conjugase Ubc8 in the remodeling process when cells transition from respiratory to fermentative conditions were accepted for publiction in the international,...
Welcome to our new assocciated PhD student Melike
We are pleased to welcome Melike Aksu as our new associated doctoral student in STRESSistance. Melike will work on her PhD project in the group of Ekkehars Neuhaus/Plant Physiology. Within her project, she will characterize the molecular mechanism for fructose...
First STRESSistance Symposium a success
From October 4-6, 2022, our first symposium took place in Freinsheim. We would like to sincerely thank all participants, our PIs and especially our PhD students and external guest scientists Jun.-Prof. Bianca Schrul and Prof. em. Richard Zimmermann (both Medical...
RTG-doctoral students exchange in Bonn
In September 2022 the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the first time invited PhD students funded in Research Training Groups to an exchange meeting in Bonn. Our University, respectively STRESSistance, was represented by Saskia Zeilfelder from the Molecular...
Greetings from the EMBO Protein translocation conference in Spain
We are very pleased that our PhD students quite frequently represent their research projects - and thus also our Research Training Group - at national and international conferences. Like e.g. Saskia from the Cell Biology lab, who currently attends the EMBO Protein...
Conference visit by RTG members in Munich
Britta, Eileen and Marcel were attending the 22nd Drug Design and Development seminar (DDDS) 2022 of the German society for Parasitology (DGP) from 12th-15th of July in Munich. Eileen and Marcel gave a presentation with the title “Protein abundance and folding rather...
Conference Greetings from Vermont
Büsra, Saskia and Hannes are currently attending the Gordon Conference "Mitochondria & Chloroplasts" in Vermont, USA (July 17 to 22, 2022). While Büsra gave a great talk on Tuesday (The ER membrane complex (EMC) can functionally replace the Oxa1 insertase in...
After Work Networking
For internal exchange and networking, the STRESSistance members met last Tuesday for an "after work networking" barbecue on the TUK campus. Thank you to everyone who helped with the set up, for bringing salads and other food and for cleaning up. And a very special...
Article about Zuzana`s recent research results
LABORJOURNAL (Journal Club) published a nice article about recent research results of our PI Zuzana Storchova and team on how tetraploidy destabilizes the genome. You can find the article here (in german language): "Doppelt hält schlechter".
We sincerely welcome Sadia
Sadia Sayed Tamanna (Tamy) is our new PhD student in the group of our associated member Stefanie Müller-Schüssele (Molecular Botany). In her PhD project, Sadia is investigating how chloroplast and mitochondrial dynamics change during stress conditions. We are very...