Author: Nike Heinss

In celebration of International Women’s Day, we reflect on the inspiring discussions and opportunities at the recent Bright Future Meeting! Several of our talented female PhD students participated in the SpeakUp workshop led by Katarina Kovalcikova, where they engaged in...

Another SFB1551 paper is out! “Deciphering driving forces of biomolecular phase separation from simulations” was just published on Current Opinion in Structural Biology. Abstract The formation and modulation of biomolecular condensates as well as their structural and dynamic properties are determined...

Congratulations to Dr. Philipp Schönberger!  We are proud to announce that Philipp Schönberger is the first fully-funded graduate of the SFB1551 IRTG IPP program. Philipp’s research focused on exploring the polymeric functions of ubiquitin and SUMO in protein phase separation,...

HELAU Yesterday, our group proudly joined the famous Mainz Carnival  – and what a day it was! Scientists marching in a carnival parade? Sounds crazy, right? Well, that’s exactly what we did — and we did it in style! After...

Another SFB1551 paper is out! “Bias in, bias out – AlphaFold-Multimer and the structural complexity of protein interfaces” was just published on Current Opinion in Structural Biology.   Highlights Protein interfaces involving disordered protein regions are underrepresented in training data...

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of hosting Sam Wilken from the University of California Santa Barbara. Sam is a postdoc at the Saleh Lab and has been working on biomietic materials, namely self-assembled DNA systems that mimic the non-equilibrium structural...

We are excited to announce that Michael te Vrugt (JGU, Physics Department) just joined the SFB1551 as fully funded member with project entitled “Nucleation dynamics in field theories for intracellular phase separation”  “The overall aim of this project is the investigation...

2025 marks two significant milestones in the global movement for gender equality and women’s empowerment: the 10th anniversary of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science and the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action....

Exciting News! Our New PINs & Socks Are Here! Remember the buzz from our last retreat when we announced the launch of our exclusive SFB1551 PIN collection and the brand-new Sock model? Well, the wait is over—they’ve officially arrived, and we...

Grateful for the inspiring talk, at the Joint New Year’s Colloquium, “The Beauty of Old Cells – Narrating Age Between Culture and Biology,” delivered by Prof. Mita Banerjee from the Obama Institute at Johannes Gutenberg University. The talk explored how...