RTG 2737 – STRESSistance
News
Next successful STRESSistance Graduation!
Congratulations to Britta Husemann (Deponte lab) on the successful defense of her doctoral thesis entitled “Untersuchung der Oxidativen-Stress-Hypothese für die Blutstadien des menschlichen Malaria-Erregers Plasmodium falciparum””. We are very proud and wish Britta...
Welcome to Alison from Edmonton
We warmly welcome Alison Mertens from Edmonton (Canada) for her six weeks research internship within the frame of the UoA Undergraduate Research Abroad Programme. While joining us, Alison is hosted by our PI Marcel Deponte (Biochemistry). Her research project was...
Welcome to our visiting researcher in the Deponte’ lab
Fatemeh Ghamari (MD.Ph.D Biochemistry) is an Assistant Professor at Payame Noor University in Tehran, Iran. She is visiting us for a three months research stay in the Biochemistry department of our PI Marcel Deponte. We are happy to have Fatemeh with us and are...
Guest seminars with Simone Berkel and Yvonne Schwarz
On April 29, 2025 we had the pleasure to welcome Dr. Simone Berkel (Molecular Neurogenetics, University Hospital, Heidelberg) for a guest talk in our RTG. The main interest of the Berkel group is to better understand the genetic cause of neurodevelopmental disorders...
Welcome to Takdeer from Edmonton/Canada
We cordially welcome Takdeer Baidwan from the University of Alberta in Edmonton to our graduate program STRESSistance. Takdeer is participating in the University of Alberta Undergraduate Research Abroad Program, which enables students from the Department of...
Strategies for resolving protein function
During today's Practice & Theory seminar with Tanja Maritzen, our doctoral students learned a lot about strategies for resolving protein function. This included information on how to use litereature and databases for gaining information about the protein of...
New PhD student spokespersons elected
I have the pleasure to announce the new PhD students spokespersons for the upcoming one and a half years: Subasini Thangamani (Computational Biology) has been elected as the first and Benjamin Ziehmer (Nanophysiology) as the second spokesperson. We are pleased that...
Results of “Scientific modelling” workshop
In addition to the talk- and poster sessions, the agenda of the latest PhD student retreat (31 March/1 April 2025 in Altleiningen) also included a creative workshop in which groups of our doctoral students modelled aspects of the STRESSistance research programme. At...
Successful third PhD student retreat
On Monday and Tuesday of this week (31 March/1 April 2025), our PhD students met for their third self-organised retreat, this time at the youth hostel in Altleinigen. In addition to various lecture and post-sessions, the programme also included a scientific modelling...
How do (plant) cells react after the onset of stress?
Today we had a great seminar with our PI Ekkehard Neuhaus on the characteristics of stress, the most conserved cellular reaction, stress-reducing compounds and some examples out of his lab of how plants respond to stress. The seminar was particularly valuable for our...