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Sandra Schick, group Leader at the IMB (SFB1551; Project R11) has just been awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council, with her project entitled “Tuning brain fate through modulation of chromatin remodelling“.  This prestigious grant awarded Sandra’s Lab...

Today, Sina Wittmann got the Labbot installed in her Lab, at the IMB! Mattias Törnquist, an application specialist from Labbot, gave an insightful presentation on the new equipment to a group of researchers from both the IMB and JGU. Many members...

Another SFB1551 paper is out! “Cracking the Code: Reprogramming the Genetic Script in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes to Harness the Power of Noncanonical Amino Acids” was published on Chemical Reviews. Abstract Over 500 natural and synthetic amino acids have been genetically encoded in...

Check out the new article from Katja Luck’s Lab on “Generation of a high confidence set of domain-domain interface types to guide protein complex structure predictions by AlphaFold” just published on Bioinformatics Abstract MotivationWhile the release of AlphaFold (AF) represented...

Another SFB1551 paper is out! “Tuning the Functionality of Designer Translating Organelles with Orthogonal tRNA Synthetase/tRNA Pairs” was published on the Journal of Molecular Biology. AbstractSite-specific incorporation of noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs) can be realized by genetic code expansion (GCE) technology....

On July 10th and 11th, SFB1551 was actively involved in the Curious 2024 Future Insight Conference at the Rheingoldhalle in Mainz. Dorothee Dormann and Tanja Weil each took center stage, presenting their research to a wide and diverse audience. SFB1551 also hosted a workshop titled...

On July 8th, we welcomed guest speaker Christian Schlieker, an expert in nuclear compartmentalization and the development of novel methodologies to study the interplay of membrane dynamics, liquid-liquid phase separation, and protein quality control. In his talk, titled “(Dis)connecting Aberrant...

On July 1st, SFB1551 had the pleasure of hosting a double lecture featuring guest speakers Tanja Mittag and Kresten Lindorff-Larsen. The event was well-attended, with a full house eagerly awaiting Tanja’s presentation on “Driving Forces for Phase Separation, Material Properties,...

Helle Ulrich (SFB1551 – Project R02) has been awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). She will receive EUR 2.5 million over the next five years to support her research on how a small regulatory protein called...

On June 20th, we welcomed our guest speaker, Professor Matthias Ballauf. Affiliated to Freie Universität Berlin, Prof. Ballauff is no stranger to Mainz, having been a student at Mainz University. It was wonderful to see some of his former collaborators...