RTG 2737 – STRESSistance
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Guest seminar with Michael Lenhard
On Monday this week (07/13/26) we had the pleasure to welcome Prof. Michael Lenhard from the Institute for Biochemistry and Biology at the University of Potsdam, who is studying the genetic and molecular basis of organ-size control in plants, and its evolutionary...
Welcome to Jenny, our new associated PhD student
We cordially welcome our new associated doctoral student Jennifer Kleiber in the Nanophysiology group of Tanja Maritzen. We wish Jenny every success with her project and look forward to a successful collaboration.
Welcome to our new Prinicipal Investigator, Yury Bykov
As we kick off our second funding period, we cordially welcome our new PI, Yury Bykov. Yury was recently recruited to Kaiserslautern as a junior professor and his research will enrich the STRESSistance focus in the field of quantitative cell biology. We are very much...
Welcome to Alisa from Edmonton/Canada
We warmly welcome Alisa Tse, our third guest student of the University of Alberta Undergraduate Research Abroad Program in 2026. For the upcoming six weeks, Alisa will work on a research project supervised by our PhD spokesperson Benjamin Ziehmer in the Nanophysiology...
DFG approved continued funding for STRESSistance!
We are very pleased and grateful that the results and prospects of our research convinced the decision-makers at the DFG and that our funding has been extended for another four and a half years. This gives us the opportunity to continue our research projects and help...
Award for our former doctoral student Jan-Eric, congratulations!
The RPTU Friends Association in Kaiserslautern has awarded nine prizes to outstanding young researchers. Among them is one of our former doctoral students, Dr. Jan-Eric Bökenkamp (Molecular Genetics/Storchová lab). Congratulations - we are very proud of you! (Foto:...
Farewell Niko!
Today we are saying goodbye to our visiting student Niko Krusekopf from the “Undergraduate Research Abroad Program” at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Niko has been part of our Research Training Group for the past six weeks and has conducted a small...
“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...