Author: Nike Heinss

SAVE THE DATE! We are thrilled to announce that the SFB1551 International Symposium will take place from March 4-6, 2026. This year’s event is particularly special as it marks the culmination of our first funding phase, making it a defining...

The SFB1551 would like to aknowledge the postdocs in the network and invite them to participate in the many activities taking place this week! Check the full programme here.  Some of the Network PIs came forward and shared their view...

Sandra Schick, group Leader at the IMB (SFB1551; Project R11) has just been awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council, with her project entitled “Tuning brain fate through modulation of chromatin remodelling“.  This prestigious grant awarded Sandra’s Lab...

Today, Sina Wittmann got the Labbot installed in her Lab, at the IMB! Mattias Törnquist, an application specialist from Labbot, gave an insightful presentation on the new equipment to a group of researchers from both the IMB and JGU. Many members...

Another SFB1551 paper is out! “Cracking the Code: Reprogramming the Genetic Script in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes to Harness the Power of Noncanonical Amino Acids” was published on Chemical Reviews. Abstract Over 500 natural and synthetic amino acids have been genetically encoded in...

Check out the new article from Katja Luck’s Lab on “Generation of a high confidence set of domain-domain interface types to guide protein complex structure predictions by AlphaFold” just published on Bioinformatics Abstract MotivationWhile the release of AlphaFold (AF) represented...

Another SFB1551 paper is out! “Tuning the Functionality of Designer Translating Organelles with Orthogonal tRNA Synthetase/tRNA Pairs” was published on the Journal of Molecular Biology. AbstractSite-specific incorporation of noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs) can be realized by genetic code expansion (GCE) technology....

On July 10th and 11th, SFB1551 was actively involved in the Curious 2024 Future Insight Conference at the Rheingoldhalle in Mainz. Dorothee Dormann and Tanja Weil each took center stage, presenting their research to a wide and diverse audience. SFB1551 also hosted a workshop titled...

On June 20th, we welcomed our guest speaker, Professor Matthias Ballauf. Affiliated to Freie Universität Berlin, Prof. Ballauff is no stranger to Mainz, having been a student at Mainz University. It was wonderful to see some of his former collaborators...

Today, Master students successfully completed the 2-week practical (A-Module) of the “Polymer Concepts in Cellular Function” Master Module. This Module, currently in its first edition, was designed by the SFB1551 spokespersons, Dorothee Dormann and Edward Lemke.  The A-Module practical sessions...