RTG 2737 – STRESSistance
News
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...
Again successful STRESSistance Graduation!
Congratulations to Dario Lasser (Pielage lab) on the successful defense of his doctoral thesis entitled “The ubiquitinating enzymes Effete/UbcD1 and Herc2 control synaptic growth and cytoskeletal organization at the Drosophila NMJ“. We are very proud and wish Dario...
New publication by two of our PhD students
The paper describes a new method for monitoring the efficiency of mitochondrial transport of a specific protein in living yeast cells. Congratulations to Annika Egeler (STRESSistance-PhD student of the second generation in the Herrmann lab) and Saskia Rödl (first...
Visit of Yuina Otani (PhD student in Japan)
The last two days we had the pleasure of hosting Yuina Otani in Kaiserslautern. Yuina is a doctoral student in Japan, she recently met Lorenz Wagner (doctoral student in the Herrmann lab) at the OsakaMito2025 and TokyoMito2025 conferences. On her way to a conference...
New STRESSistance publication
Congratulations to the authors, especially to our PhD students Laura Leiskau and Lea Bambach and to our PI Marcel Deponte (Biochemistry). As the title of the publication suggests, the authors believe to have finally found the long-sought second substrate/reducing...
The STRESSistance family welcomes two new associated PhD students
We are delighted to welcome two new associated doctoral students to our Research Training Group: Marlene Barth (Zoology & Neurobiology, Pielage group) and Lora Ruggiu (Cell Biology, Herrmann group). We wish them both every success with their projects and look...
Welcome to our new PhD student Diego
We cordially welcome Diego Artigas-Hernández as new associated member of STRESSistance. Diego is a PhD student in the lab of Stefanie Müller-Schüssele (Molecular Botany) and already presented his project during our latest Symposium in Bad Dürkheim. We are happy to...
Successfull fourth STRESSistance Symposium
From September 8 to 10, 2025, we organized our fourth STRESSistance Symposium, this time at the Kurpark Hotel in Bad Dürkheim. Aside from great talks and poster sessions of our PhD students on the progress of their projects we also enjoyed interesting presentations by...
Welcome to Sarah, our new associated PhD student
We are happy to welcome our new associated PhD student Sarah Gabelmann (Molecular Biotechnology/Schroda group) and look forward to a successful collaboration!