From 5–17 July, Manja, Maria & Tom joined the Benasque Workshop on Computational Approaches to RNA Structure and Function in the Spanish Pyrenees. Scientific exchange, inspiring discussions, and connections in #RNA biology and #bioinformatics, plus beautiful views ⛰️☀️ Thanks to the organizers!

📢 Last chance to apply for the open positions in our research group: ➡️Doctoral Researcher in Bioinformatics: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/5... ➡️Research Software Engineer: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/1... ➡️Postdoc / Semantic Data Architect for Virus Database: www.rna.uni-jena.de/job/postdoc-...

🎉Congratulations Jannes! Another successful PhD defense last Thursday: "The hidden alphabet of RNA: Direct Nanopore sequencing and detection of RNA modifications" 🎓💪

New preprint from a collaboration with EMBL-EBI presenting computational protocols for automated ncRNA annotation of viral genomes 💻🧬👍

European Virus Bioinformatics Center@evbc.bsky.social · last mo.

Rfam database and R2DT workflows enable automated virus ncRNA annotation and API-driven retrieval of RNA families, alignments and structures for scalable RNA biology pipelines 🧬🧫📊 #RNA #Virology #Bioinformatics 📄 https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.10.724034 👤 EVBC members: Sandra Triebel, Manja Marz

🎓💪Daria succesfully defended her dissertation and threw the flower wreath onto Hanfrieds sword last week - Congratulations!🥳 She studied the clinical applications of long and short read sequencing for methylation analysis and cancer detection 🧬⚕️

🎉Congratulations to our former doctoral researcher Marie for the successful defense of her dissertation about "Usable, scaleable and reproducible workflows for Next-Generation Sequencing Data"! 🎓💪

Join Our Team!🚀 🧠Junior Research Group Leader #MachineLearning Data Integration 🧬PhD #Bioinformatics 💻Research Software Engineer 📢Science Communication Coordinator 🎓Scient. Coordinator IRTG 🤝Scient. Coordinator CRC 🔗 www.rna.uni-jena.de/join-our-tea... #ScienceCareers #AcademicJobs #Virology

The first 'Play with Brain' men's matches started yesterday! 👉Further info: www.uni-jena.de/en/404118/wh... 📹Watch them (live) on Twitch! www.twitch.tv/europeangofe...

EuropeanGoFederation - Twitch

The official Twitch account of the European Go Federation

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@jenarna.bsky.social · 4mo ago

⚫⚪🧠📊8 international Go players (incl. Manja) will compete in Jena – while brain activity, heart rate & muscle tension are tracked in real time – exploring decision-making under pressure at the intersection of #neuroscience, #bioinformatics & #Go. 🎥 Live on Twitch! ↘️ www.eurogofed.org/index.html?i...

⚫⚪🧠📊8 international Go players (incl. Manja) will compete in Jena – while brain activity, heart rate & muscle tension are tracked in real time – exploring decision-making under pressure at the intersection of #neuroscience, #bioinformatics & #Go. 🎥 Live on Twitch! ↘️ www.eurogofed.org/index.html?i...

"Play with Brain" | Dive into the brains of go players in a live experiment | April 18-23

What happens inside the brain of a Go player when they make a mistake? How does the brain process errors, pressure, and high-stakes decisions in real time? This is exactly what "Play with Brain" sets ...

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As usual, we've had a great time presenting our projects at the 7th Central German Meeting on #Bioinformatics - Mittelerde Meeting 2026 at @unihalle.bsky.social! 🧬⚕️🦠🌡️🔧🖥️ Thanks to the organizers and sponsors! #epigenomics #diagnostics #methylation #ncRNA #adaption #Sugar #DataEngineering #metadata

As part of the BMFTR-funded center CEPRE, we’ve released three new patient information videos, addressing key topics around unfulfilled desire to have children, chronic #endometritis, #ReproductiveResearch, women’s health, and #PatientParticipation 📽️👶⚕️🩸 🔗 www.uniklinikum-jena.de/cepre/Aktuel...

We will be at the Mittelerde Meeting (Central German Meeting on Bioinformatics) next week in Halle! mittelerde.informatik.uni-halle.de/mittelerde/p... 🎤Daria: Comput. framework for methylation-driven precision medicine 📄 P15 Tom: Sugar P17 MariaS: ncRNAs & microbial adaptation P70 Shahram: VirJenDB

We had an amazing four days at the #GfV Conference, sharing our projects, exchanging ideas, and meeting inspiring people along the way! 🎤📄🤝✨ Huge thanks to the organizers for a fantastic event in Heidelberg! 🙌

🤝 Meet us at #GfV2026 in Heidelberg! 🎤Talk 006 "Decoding influenza A virus genome organization using large-scale in silico RNA structure analysis"🗓️today 6:15 pm📍Session Virus evolution 📄Poster 284 “VirJenDB: the integrative virus metadata and analysis web platform”🗓️18 March 2:30 pm📍Poster exh. 3

Alex was excited to join the "3. Deutschsprachige Symposium der Infektiologie in Gynäkologie & Geburtshilfe" - a great opportunity to connect perspectives from basic science to clinical challenges in reproductive health. Many thanks to our CEPRE members Jana & Janine for the excellent organization!

👏Congratulations to our doctoral researcher Maria Schreiber for receiving the 2026 Jena RNA Club Young Researcher Award. She presented her project about the Sibling-Sponge Family Tree and #sRNA Evolution Analysis with #SweetSynteny at the RNA Club today🎤 www.leibniz-hki.de/en/jena-rna-...

🚀 New preprint: ViralClust - a Nextflow pipeline for bias-aware clustering of large virus genome datasets. 🧬🦠 Reduces dataset size by ≥95% while preserving diversity and enabling scalable downstream analyses.

bioRxiv Bioinfo@biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Reducing haystacks to needles - ViralClust: A Nextflow pipeline to cluster viral sequences https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.30.702815v1

🥳 New journal publication out! First full-genome alignment across all known #Pestivirus species (incl. CSFV, BVDV) 🧬💻 We identify conserved RNA elements & 29 novel #RNASecondaryStructures, expand the miR-17 landscape, and suggest a long-distance RNA interaction. 🔗 www.rnajournal.org/cgi/doi/10.1...

🛋️💡Learn more about the usage of #DNAmethylation for #CancerDiagnosis and the study by Daria and her co-authors in our new blog article! 🧬 🔎 🔗 www.rna.uni-jena.de/reading-dna-...

Reading DNA methylation for Cancer Diagnosis

Why DNA Methylation Matters – When we think about DNA, we often think of it as a static genomic sequence. But in reality, additional regulatory layers, known as epigenetic mechanisms, play a …

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📢 Exciting new PhD position to explore and visualize phage genomic modules on our virus database portal virjendb.org 🦠💻🎈 👉If you know of a skilled bioinformatician who wants to work with an expert team of international phage researchers, please forward! ⏰15 Feb 2026 jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/c...

Bas E. Dutilh@bedutilh.bsky.social · 7mo ago

PhD position in Jena! Unique German-French collaboration to work on integrating phage genomic modules into VirJenDB.org - make sense of #phages, #big_data, #front_end, #back_end, #database. Please apply here 👇 jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/c...

📣Excited to share our (first) VirJenDB publication! 🎁Check it out to see how your #virus database supports #metadata #biocuration and #bioinformatics integration. 🎶Stay tuned for collaboration opportunities in 2026, including a hackathon at #ViBioM2026! 📃 doi.org/10.1093/nar/... 💻 www.virjendb.org

🎉Congratulations to our group member Gabriel for the successful defense of his dissertation about "RNA-RNA interactions and their role in influenza A virus genome packaging"! 🎓💪

Alex presented on behalf of the Center for Early Pregnancy and Reproductive Health (CEPRE) team at the 2nd CERES meeting – a great opportunity to share ideas and strengthen collaborations!🤝 Thanks to the organizers and all CERES partners from Hamburg (SRHOO), Ulm (FePro-​Ulm), and Leipzig (LE-REP)!

Am Dienstag wird Manja eine der Keynotes beim "6. Nationalen Workshop METAGENOMICS" des DiaMETA-net (Dt. Netzwerk f. #Metagenomdiagnostik in der Infektionsmedizin) am @rki.de halten und zusammen mit Denise Kühnert und @martinhoelzer.bsky.social die Anwendungen von KI auf diesem Gebiet diskutieren💬

Meet Max, Tom and Manja at the MONID Workshop 2025 "Modelling diseases with the German Epidemic Microsimulation System (GEMS)“ today and tomorrow @unihalle.bsky.social! 📈⚕️The second funding period will start next summer 💪 monid.net/monid-gems-w...

MONID-GEMS Workshop 2025 - MONID - MODELLIERUNGSNETZ

MONID Workshop 2025 „Modelling diseases with the German Epidemic Microsimulation System (GEMS)“ 24. – 25. November 2025 in Halle (Saale) veranstaltet von der MONID Koordinierungsstelle in Zusammenarbe...

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📢 Join Us for the Next Viruses in Silico Lecture! 🎙️ SIRIUS and beyond: Turning tandem mass spectra into metabolite structure information 🗓️ 30 October 2025 🕑 4 PM CET 👨‍🔬 Sebastian Böcker (@uni-jena.de) 📍 Zoom - Register to receive the login details 👉 https://tinyurl.com/VirusesInSilico

Thanks for an inspiring and fruitful @nfdi4microbiota.bsky.social Annual Conference last week 💛 Our team of the #VirJenDB (Noriko, Sharam, Kilian) contributed with a poster💬 and a workshop with demo🤝 about this comprehensive virus sequence database 🦠 🧬 💻 #FAIRdata #metadata #viromics ➡️ virjendb.org

NFDI4Microbiota@nfdi4microbiota.bsky.social · 10mo ago

That’s a wrap! 🎉 The NFDI4Microbiota Annual Conference 2025 ended with inspiring keynotes, exciting panels, engaging posters & workshops – and above all, a strong community spirit. 🙏 Huge thanks to all participants and our community for 3 days of knowledge-sharing and collaboration.

ℹ️ This Wednesday at #DGHM2025 in Jena, Noriko gave a workshop on "Navigating #microbiomes through the lens of NFDI4Microbiota Services"! 🦠💪 #VirJenDB Glad to have contributed to this year’s program - it was a great opportunity to share insights and exchange with the community!

NFDI4Microbiota@nfdi4microbiota.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We’re heading to Jena for two exciting events! 📍 DGHM 2025 – 24 Sept Workshop: Data madness: Navigating Host Microbiomes Featuring VirJenDB – virus sequence discovery & analysis Details 👉 programme.conventus....

Big thanks to @linsalrob.bsky.social for a great and inspiring lunch yesterday during his visit to Jena! 🥗🥘🤝 Great conversation, fresh perspectives, and some ideas to take forward. 🧬🖥️🦘 #research #collaboration #bioinformatics

Daria, Maria, Tom, and Kilian had a great time at the #GCB2025 in Düsseldorf this week, gaining many valuable insights to follow up 💪 and enjoying fruitful discussions about their posters #MethylationBiomarkers #SugarTool #microsynteny #VirJenDB 🧬🔧🦠 👏