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February 20, 2026

The Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture and the Volkswagen Foundation are funding four cooperation projects with Israel.

Sonja Lorenz is participating with her project “Multidimensional innovation approaches for tapping into allosteric mechanisms in HECT ubiquitin ligases,” which is being carried out in collaboration with Gali Prag, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

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January 26, 2026

Members of the SFB1565 attend the meeting “Wege zum nachhaltigen Labor”

The Green Office of the University of Göttingen hosted a 2-day meeting to discuss strategies for more sustainability in universities and research institutions. Experts and aficionados shared experiences and lessons-learned in applying resource-efficient practices across different fields of science.

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January 1, 2026

Welcome Monika Witzenberger to SFB1565

We are pleased to announce that Monika has joined our SFB as an associate member. With her subproject RNA modification enzymes in gene expression regulation she will support the goals of the SFB and advance its mission. Welcome, Monika.

November 7, 2025

ERC Synergy Grant for Marina Rodnina’s CHAPEROME project

Marina Rodnina, member of our SFB, has received funding of almost €10 million through a  Synergy Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for her CHAPEROME project in collaboration with Judith Frydman (Stanford, USA) and Johannes Buchner (TUM, Munich). The team will investigate how chaperones control protein synthesis on the ribosome and help cells to adapt to stress such as changing physiological conditions. Congratulations!

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November 3, 2025

International Research Talents for the University Medical Center Göttingen

Argyris Papantonis, a member of our SFB, has been appointed as a scout. This enables him to nominate up to three young scientists from abroad for a Humboldt Research Fellowship in order to recruit them for his research at UMG.

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September 16, 2025

Ubiquitin ligase can do even more

In an interdisciplinary approach, members of SFB1565, led by Sonja Lorenz, have discovered that human ubiquitin ligase can label not only cellular proteins with ubiquitin, but also externally added drug-like molecules. These findings could open up new strategies in drug research and biotechnology.

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September 16, 2025

GZMB Phd Award for Jennifer Jansen

Jennifer was awarded the prize for the best doctoral thesis by the GZMB for her doctoral thesis as part of Matthias Dobbelstein’s SFB subproject P08 – Regulation of the MDM4 oncogene by the ribosomal protein L22 through alternative mRNA splicing – Congratulations!

August 26, 2025

Welcome to Lydia Herzel

We are delighted to welcome Lydia Herzel from the FU Berlin as a new associate member of our SFB. With her project Multi-omics analysis targeting interconnected steps in gene expression, she will complement and advance the SFB. Welcome, Lydia.

August 15, 2025

ISC2025 Molecular Medicine meets the SFB1565

Participants of the ISC course in Molecular Medicine had the opportunity to visit Prof. Bohnsack’s research group. They took advantage of this opportunity to discuss practical issues and learn about the everyday life of a researcher.

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July 9, 2025

Train the teacher – SFB1565 and XLAB

Markus T. Bohnsack contributes and supports XLAB in training teachers on the topic of gene expression.

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