Author: Nike Heinss

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...

Another SFB1551 paper is out! “Sequence determinants of protein phase separation and recognition by protein phase-separated condensates through molecular dynamics and active learning” was published on Faraday Discussions. Abstract “Elucidating how protein sequence determines the properties of disordered proteins and their phase-separated...

We are thrilled to announce an opening two fully funded Postdoctoral or PhD student positions in Biophysics and/or Chemical/Synthetic Biology in the Lemke Lab! BackgroundIn higher eukaryotes, proteins that lack apparent folded structure are enriched in many vital processes. The group...

We are excited to announce that Shikha Dhiman just joined the SFB1551 as fully funded member with project entitled “Covalent and Non-Covalent Macromolecular Approach for Precision and Switchable Protein Oligomerization: Exploring Fundamental Insights and Control Cellular Functions”   “In summary, our...

Another SFB1551 paper is out! “A genetically encoded anomalous SAXS ruler to probe the dimensions of intrinsically disordered proteins” was just published on PNAS Biophysics and Computational Biology. Abstract Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) adopt ensembles of rapidly fluctuating heterogeneous conformations, influencing their...

We are thrilled to announce an opening for a postdoctoral researcher in Sina Wittmann‘ Lab! If you’ve recently completed your PhD in biochemistry, structural biology, or a related field and are passionate about Transcription Factor Condensation Research, we’d love to...

Our annual retreat has concluded, and we are grateful for the engaging and productive scientific discussions. It’s truly inspiring to see polymer and life scientists bring together their complementary perspectives! DAY 1 On the first day we had the pleasure...

From the 21st to the 25th of October, the Microscopy CF teams at JGU and IMB organized the first edition of the practical course on “Advanced microscopy techniques used to study (bio)polymer dynamics.”  The recently completed course covered several relevant...

Another SFB1551 paper is out! “Selective RNA pseudouridinylation in situ bycircular gRNAs in designer organelles” was just published on Nature Communications Abstract RNA modifications play a pivotal role in the regulation of RNA chemistry withincells. Several technologies have been developed with the...