Check out the new homepage of our consortium Systems Biology of the Unfolded Protein Response in Glioma (SUPR-G) which is generously funded by the german ministry for education and research (BMBF).
The new year has just started and already there are some great news: Andreas Horn joined the lab as a PhD student! His PhD project will focus on a novel strategy that we have recently developed which allows to map protein-RNA interaction with high resolution in a parallel fashion. Welcome to the lab!
With christmas time approaching, we would like to thank our colleagues and collaborators for a wonderful and productive year! Also we would like to specifically thank the funding agencies for their very generous support that helps us to pursue our scientific goals!
Merry Christmas, a relaxing holiday season and a happy and successful New Year!
We are very happy to announce that Stefan Reich was awarded a fellowship from the Joachim Herz Stiftung!
‘I am very happy that my application for an Add-on Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Science from the Joachim Herz Stiftung was successful. This now gives me the opportunity to attend conferences and additional courses in bioinformatics which will support our work. Personally, I hope to gain further insight into data analysis which will pave the way to success in my doctoral thesis. For this reason I want to thank the Joachim Herz Stiftung very much for the generous support and I am looking forward to the first meeting with the other fellows in March 2016.’
-Stefan Reich, PhD student
The Section Cellular Biochemistry and Biophysics (CBB) of the Regensburg International Graduate School of Life Sciences (RIGeL) has a new coordinator: Jan Medenbach. I am happy to take up my new duties within the graduate school and to help the PhD students wherever possible. Feel free to contact me any time by Email or phone or just visit me in my office in VKL 1 1.05!
The Collaborative Research Centre 960 (SFB960) – Ribosome formation: principles of RNP biogenesis and control of their function has been extended for another funding period! We are now part of the SFB960 and we are very grateful for the financial support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) that allows us to address exciting scientific questions (see project B11).
Pictured above: the principal investigators of the SFB 960
The E:med webpage has just become live! E:med aims to combine life-sciences and informatics to create systems-wide approaches to address important questions in disease. We are very grateful that our SUPR-G junior consortium was selected to become part of this great initiative!
We are very happy that Simona Palusci came all the way from sunny Italy to join our lab here in Regensburg! Simona has received a fellowship from our local graduate school RIGeL to work on the translational repression of the Drosophila RNA nanos by the RNA-binding protein Sex Lethal. Thanks to the generous support from the Graduate Research Academy RNA Biology we can now welcome a new labmember!
We have a new colleague in the lab! We are very happy to announce that beginning of the month Stefan Reich has joined the lab as a PhD student! Stefan will work on deciphering the cellular reprogramming of translation during the unfolded protein response. Within the BMBF-funded SUPR-G network (Systems Biology of the Unfolded Protein Responsse in Glioma) he will collaborate with the groups of Christiane Knobbe-Thomsen (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf), Robert Ahrends (Leibniz Institute for Analytical Biosciences, ISAS, Dortmund), Grischa Tödt (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, EMBL, Heidelberg), and Björn Tews (German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ, Heidelberg). Welcome to Regensburg and welcome to the lab!
The initiative ‚Nacht schafft Wissen‘ by the city of Regensburg provides an opportunity to gain insight into the research and work that is conducted within numerous companies, the technical university of applied sciences, the university of Regensburg and its hospital. For this a number of talks and tours are offered to interested visitors. Rebecca Moschall from the lab will actively participate by guiding lab visits in the biochemistry department and explaining about the research that is conducted. We are very much looking forward to welcoming you on April 24th!
(picture with permission from city of Regensburg)
We are happy to announce that Gaia Di Timoteo was successful with her application for an Erasmus fellowship. Gaia is working in the laboratory of Irene Bozzoni at the Sapienza University of Rome. She will join our lab for two months (starting in July) to gain expertise in experimentation aimed to study translation in vitro.
Looking forward to your visit!
We are happy to announce that our application to the Federal Ministry for Education and Research was successful! Together with four other junior groups located at the German Cancer Research Center DKFZ (Björn Tews), the European Molecular Biology Laboratory EMBL (Grischa Tödt), the Leibniz-Institute for Analytical Sciences ISAS (Robert Ahrends), and the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (Christiane Knobbe-Thomsen) we can now embark on a highly collaborative research program. Our aim is to study in molecular detail how the Unfolded Protein Response (UPR) impacts on growth and invasion of glioma. 
On May 27th Johannes Popow from the EMBL in Heidelberg will will come to Regensburg and give a talk within the RIGeL RNA Lecture Series… Looking forward to welcoming an old colleague and friend to Regensburg!
Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg, Neuronal Translational Control, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf
Non-canonical translation factors: regulatory targets and organismal functions
After the successful mid-term evaluation in December last year we had another BioSysNet meeting in Munich. Again it was a very exciting meeting! Many thanks to the organizing team for their great work!
