Girls & Boys Day
Girls & Boys Day 2025: A Journey into the World of Science! On April 3, 2025, science came to life on the JGU campus as 30 curious students from the 5th and 7th grades of Otto-Schott-Gymnasium plunged headfirst into a...
Seminar Series – Michael Landreh
On April 3rd, we were delighted to host Michael Landreh from the Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology at Uppsala University, and the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. During his talk, Michael explored...
Seminar Series – Ali Miserez
On April 2nd, we had the pleasure of welcoming Ali Miserez from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. This event marked the second IRTG talk organized by our PhD student community. On this occasion, Ali generously shared his expertise on “Peptide...
Seminar Series – Paolo Arosio
On March 20th, we had the pleasure of hosting Paolo Arosio from the ETH Zurich. This was the first IRTG talk organised by our own PhD students. On this day, Paolo shared whis knowledge on “Engineering Enzymatic Reactions and Protein...
Bright Future Meeting
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...
A new SFB1551 paper is out! Congrats to the Stelzl Lab
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...
SFB1551 Graduation: Congratulations Dr. Philipp Schönberger!
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,...
SFB1551 at Mainz Carnival
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...
A new SFB1551 paper is out! Congrats to the Luck Lab
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...
Seminar Series – Sam Wilken
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...