March 1, 2024
Teacher training – Keynote talk by Matthias Dobbelstein
Biology teachers from Lower Saxony exchange ideas to further develop the subject of biology in the upper school.
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News - Year: 2024
February 8, 2024
Mechanistic insights into the ubiquitin labeling system.
Sonja Lorenz and other members of the SFB have succeeded for the first time in visualising the mode of action of a ubiquitin ligase in 3D. The ligase binds ubiquitin molecules to proteins and uses this code to determine whether the proteins are incorporated or degraded, thereby regulating numerous processes in the cell.
January 30, 2024
It is in our genes – and how our genome folds in 3D
The 3D folding of the genome influences which genes are switched on or off. Marieke Oudelaar and Elisa Oberbeckmann have made a decisive methodological advance in understanding how the genome folds. They succeeded in reproducing chromatin from yeast. This made it possible to systematically analyse the folding process and the proteins involved and to decipher the underlying mechanisms. Their work was funded as part of the Collaborative Research Centre “SFB 1565”.