Visiting NanoTemper and siTOOls in Munich. A few impressions from our M.Sc. Biochemistry industry excursion @uniregensburg.bsky.social, joined by exchange students from @colorado.edu. Great insights into how scientific ideas become products. Many thanks to both companies for the warm welcome!😊

Can you spot Gunter? Many congratulations! 🎉🎉

EMBO@embo.org · last mo.

Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 11 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! They join a community of more than 2,200 leading scientists. 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/seventy-one-leading-scientists-elected-to-the-embo-membership/ #EMBOMembers2026

Good news ✨: Travel grant applications for students & early career researchers are now open.

@meisterlab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Join us for the 8th Biennial Meeting of the LARP Society “RNA-Binding Proteins in Disease”, taking place 02–04 September 2026 in Regensburg, Germany. Registration is now open: conferencecentral.org/49 (Early-bird🐦: 30 Jun · Abstracts: 31 Jul) We look forward to welcoming you to there!

Celebrating milestones 🎉 Birgit (10 years) and Gerhard (30 years!) at our department. Congratulations and a big thank you to both for your dedication and for being such an important part of our team!!

Regensburg goes to Paris! Picture from the ArgoLeish kickoff meeting! with Gérald Spaeth and Gaspare La Rocca @dfg.de @pasteur.fr @uniregensburg.bsky.social

🎉Two reasons to celebrate!! After Kevin successfully defended his PhD thesis, his work is now out in Genes & Development. Big congratulations to him and thanks to all who contributed! @uniregensburg.bsky.social

Genes & Development@genesdev.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🆕 ADVANCE ONLINE 🆕 RESEARCH PAPER: The microprotein SMIM26 connects metabolite transporters of the outer & inner mitochondrial membranes and is essential for respiratory chain function By Heizler et al. and Gunter Meister ➡️ https://ow.ly/mXyg50YLay6 #mitochondria #lncRNA #microprotein #metabolism

Join us for the 8th Biennial Meeting of the LARP Society “RNA-Binding Proteins in Disease”, taking place 02–04 September 2026 in Regensburg, Germany. Registration is now open: conferencecentral.org/49 (Early-bird🐦: 30 Jun · Abstracts: 31 Jul) We look forward to welcoming you to there!

Exciting news: Our RNA community in @uniregensburg.bsky.social is set to grow! We are opening a Junior Group Leader position in RNA biochemistry / ribonucleases / RNA stability. A great opportunity to start your own team within our collaborative RNA network. Details & application 👇

Fantastic PhD opportunity in RNA research and RNA-based medicine!🔥

RNAmed@rnamed.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🧬 RNAMed is hiring! Apply for one of 11 fully funded PhD positions in RNA medicine and work with leading RNA experts in an international, interdisciplinary environment. 📅 Deadline: 24 March 2026 More info & apply: lnkd.in/eX7fQcJi

Great to have Mandy Peffer (@liverpooluni.bsky.social), Head of Musculoskeletal and Ageing Science, visiting our group last week. We enjoyed the scientific exchange and the time with the team. Thanks for stopping by and connecting with us.

Merry Christmas!!🎄⭐ (Photo from our La Vialla trip, thanks Birgit :)

Knabbi Esspapier (edible paper), peer-reviewed by hungry scientists.

Argonaute conference #Argonaute2025 in Prague – researchers, clinicians & patient families coming together. Honored to co-organize this fantastic, inspiring meeting with amazing colleagues @svobodalab.bsky.social, @farmgirlphd.bsky.social & @curiousdina.bsky.social

Conference season part II: one of my favourites, the Argonaute conference #Argonaute2025. As always with some specials: Ago playing cards ♠️♥️♣️♦️ & Ago gin (a favourite since the first meeting). Such fun to have co-organized this @svobodalab.bsky.social ❗️, @farmgirlphd.bsky.social & Gunter Meister.

#argonautes2025 end (for me) with an amazing dinner. Thank you for organizing @svobodalab.bsky.social

in these mostly wretched times, you have to find joy wherever you can. last week my ad hoc band the Argonautes (me, Yuki Tomari, Germano Cecere) had a blast playing in Prague. we rocked some old and new songs, and can't wait to do it again in Toronto 2027!

eric lai@lucksmith.bsky.social · 11mo ago

arrived to Prague Argonautes meeting and went straight to rehearsal with @cecerelab.bsky.social and yuki tomari. show is tomorrow (thurs) night ... see you there!! 🤘🎸🥁🎹

#argonautes2025 What to say: RNA U come around

A special day: Nobel laureate Victor Ambros in our lab! – a true pleasure to have him here. He visited Regensburg to give the laudation at Prof. Dr. Dr. Davor Lessel’s inaugural lecture and to exchange ideas on AGO2 and microRNA research. Full article here: www.mittelbayerische.de/lokales/stad...

🔥New paper out in Cell Reports

Cell Reports@cp-cellreports.bsky.social · 11mo ago

YTHDF proteins and m6A-RNA clients undergo autophagic turnover during contact inhibition

Last week, the Regensburg Center for Biochemistry (RCB) gathered for its annual retreat in the scenic Altmühltal – featuring the little ghosts 👻 rcb.app.uni-regensburg.de/index.php

It was a pleasure to host the kickoff meeting for the second funding phase of “ex-RNA” (@dfg.de Research Unit 5116) here in Regensburg. No group photo this time – but plenty of exciting ideas, lively discussions, and great science😉 gepris.dfg.de/gepris/proje...

Great to host the advanced biology class from St. Marien-Schulen at our Biochemistry Department @uniregensburg.bsky.social – thanks for your curiosity and stopping by! Full report: www.st-marien-schulen-regensburg.de/news/art/das...

A warm welcome to Dr. Nina Ripin to our RNA Biology family! 🎉Coming from @colorado.edu, she is now launching her new Junior Research Group at the @uniregensburg.bsky.social, supported by the Elite Network of Bavaria and in association with the @rnamed.bsky.social International Doctorate Program.

One week left for abstract submission for abstract-selected talks!

Petr Svoboda@svobodalab.bsky.social · last yr.

#Argonautes2025 - argonautes.img.cas.cz Join us in Prague 27-30/8/2025 for the next edition of the Argonaute meeting #miRNA #siRNA #piRNA & #PIWI Abstract submission for talk selection deadline is 30/6! Please, spread the word @rnasociety.bsky.social @rti-umasschan.bsky.social

Our latest paper is now available in Cell Reports: “Human DIS3 acts as a cytoplasmic endoribonuclease targeting circular RNA” www.cell.com/cell-reports... Congratulations and a big thanks to everyone involved on this exciting project!! @cp-cellreports.bsky.social

Cytoplasmic DIS3 is an exosome-independent endoribonuclease with catalytic activity toward circular RNAs

CircRNAs are generated during splicing, but their specific degradation pathways are poorly understood. Latini et al. identify and biochemically characterize the exo- and endoribonuclease DIS3 as a can...

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