From October 7-9, 2024, our third symposium took place at the “Jugendstilhotel Trifels” in Annweiler. We would like to cordially thank all participants, our PIs and PhD students, and especially our external guest speakers Andreas Reichert (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf/University Hospital), Susanne Brenzinger (EMBL, Heidelberg), Anton Khmelinski (Institute of Molecular Biology gGmbH, Mainz) and Barbara Witt (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau) for many exciting lectures and the extensive further discussions. All together it resulted in a really successful event.