Author: Nike Heinss

Check out the new article from Edward Lemke on “Intrinsic disorder: A term to define the specific physicochemical characteristic of protein conformational heterogeneity” “In his commentary in this issue of Molecular Cell, Struhl reasons that the term “intrinsically disordered regions” represents a...

Can Yildirim, awarded the Best Biology project in the Rhineland-Palatinate at Jugend forscht Competition After undergoing successful evaluation in Mainz, Can has now obtained the highest recognition from the jury in the 59th Rhineland-Palatinate state Jugend forscht competition. Can Yildirim developed his...

Jasper Michels receives the Best Speaker Award! Jasper Michels, Group Leader at the Molecular Electronics Division of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research and Associate PI in the SFB1551 won the Best Speaker Award at the recent IRTG Winter...

SFB1551 IRTG Winter School Our SFB1551 students gathered for the IRTG Winter School in Bad Dürkheim from 4 to 7 March. It was great having polymer & life scientists together, networking & enjoying science! Looking forward to our next event!...

New Center for Synthetic Genomics Edward Lemke, SFB1551 spokesperson, represents the UniMainz on the Board of Directors of the new Carl Zeiss Foundation Center for Synthetic Genomics Heidelberg. The CZS Center SynGen will also fund a junior research group to join...

Can Yildirim’s Award-Winning Project at Jugend forscht Competition On the 16th of February, Can Yildirim took center stage at the Jugend forscht competition hosted by JGU, presenting a project that would earn him the highest accolade in the biology category....

Dorothee Dormann, our Vice-Spokesperson, has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant. The grant, being one of the EU’s most highly endowed funding measures at a worth of €2 million, will be used to further her research on protein aggregates that...

Earlier this year, Prof. Dorothee Dormann, our Vice-Spokesperson, met with the Spiegel Best-Selling Author, Nina Ruge, to discuss Prof. Dormann’s research into the molecular basis of the neurodegenerative diseases amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), new starting points...

A recent article in a popular science journal has been published about current work of researchers in our Speaker Edward Lemke’s lab. The researchers directly visualise intrinsically disordered proteins (IDP) in the nuclear pore complex, shedding light into the nuclear...