Author: Nike Heinss

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...

This workshop, which was held in Ingelheim from May 3 to May 5 brought together experts in molecular aging, biopolymer interactions and polymer theory to discuss how non-deterministic, multivalent and disordered biomolecular interactions contribute to cellular function. While multivalent interactions...

Assistant Professor Lin Guo from Jefferson University, one of our SFB’s reviewers visited us on campus today.  As part of our SFB 1551 Seminar Series she gave a talk about reversing aberrant phase transitions of ALS/FTD-linked disease protein. We were...

Professor Rohit Pappu from the Center of Biomolecular Condensates at Washington University paid us a visit on campus today. As part of our SFB 1551 Seminar Series he gave a talk about hidden complexities of condensates formed by simple systems....

We have had out first general assembly on March 16th, 2023 discussing important topics such as budgets and gender equality but also had our first talks by scientist wanting to join our SFB.