January 29, 2025
XLAB Science Festival – Holger Stark presents the power of optics and microscopy to the public at the XLAB Science Festival.
Holger Stark, an expert in cryo-electron microscopy, has achieved remarkable success in resolving protein structures by achieving atomic resolution. His talk showed how advances in microscopy have led to a step-by-step revelation of reality that challenges and extends existing model concepts, and often had to overcome initial resistance from established scientists.
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January 3, 2025
Breakthrough in understanding tRNA processing in human cells
A research collaboration between Kate Bohnsack and Hauke Hillen, has uncovered the molecular mechanism by which the 3′-ends of transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are processed in human cells.
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December 27, 2024
Congratulations to Argyris Papantonis
Congratulations to Argyris Papantonis, member of our SFB, who has been awarded an Else Kröner Medical Scientist Fellowship. More information about the aim of the fellowship can be found here.
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August 21, 2024
Education Partnership between XLAB Science Camp and SFB1565
Markus T. Bohnsack gives an overview of the Göttingen Science Campus and engages in conversations with students about their future career paths in the context of an XLAB Science Camp.
July 17, 2024
Insights into the unique biogenesis of human mitoribosomes
The assembly of human mitoribosomes takes place in modules. This surprising result is the outcome of teamwork by CRC members Ricarda Richter-Dennerlein and Henning Urlaub and the MPI Göttingen. Their study provides a detailed overview of the biogenesis of human mitochondrial ribosomes (mitoribosomes) and shows that the biogenesis of these ribosomes is characterized by the formation of protein modules that are then assembled onto ribosomal RNA.
In addition to this comprehensive roadmap, the study highlights their evolutionary divergence from bacterial and cytosolic counterparts and provides an answer to the question of how the coordination of two genomes might occur.
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July 12, 2024
The SFB is getting a new member
Ricarda Richter-Dennerlein has been accepted as a new member of the SFB1565. With her subproject “The interplay of mitochondrial ribosomes and the quality control machinery during ribosome rescue”, she will bring the whole project a decisive step closer to our goal of research. We are looking forward to welcoming her. A warm welcome!
June 20, 2024
Key Function of Antisense Non-Coding RNA as Gene Expression Booster Discovered
Heike Krebber’s team has discovered a previously unanswered question about the occurrence and function of antisense RNA (asRNA). They found that asRNA acts like a booster and accelerates gene expression, especially when the cell has to react quickly and flexibly to changes in the environment. This discovery explains for the first time why cells produce large amounts of asRNA.
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