The NUCLEATE Cluster of Excellence is hiring! Shape the future of nucleic acid sciences 🧬 🚀 Group Leaders: All 3 locations (LMU, TUM, JMU Würzburg) 🔬 PhDs & Postdocs: Open call in Würzburg and speculative applications welcome! Deadline: Aug 16, 2026 👉 More info: nucleate-cluster.de/careers/

Registration is officially closed! 🎉 We are very much looking forward to wonderful speakers, spirited discussions, and plenty of networking. See you this September @jlugiessen.bsky.social !

RTG 2355@rtg2355.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🎉Now OPEN FOR REGISTRATION - join us Sep 14-16 in Giessen for the RTG 2355 International Conference as we explore RNA’s critical functions! Register 👉tinyurl.com/rtg2355conf We have slots for short talks and a poster session in the "Palmenhaus", so submit an abstract to present your own work!

Deadline alert ⏰⌛- if you want to present a poster or short talk at our conference in September, please submit your abstract by next Sunday, June 14! The template is available for download on the conference website 👉tinyurl.com/rtg2355conf

RTG 2355@rtg2355.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🎉Now OPEN FOR REGISTRATION - join us Sep 14-16 in Giessen for the RTG 2355 International Conference as we explore RNA’s critical functions! Register 👉tinyurl.com/rtg2355conf We have slots for short talks and a poster session in the "Palmenhaus", so submit an abstract to present your own work!

🎉Now OPEN FOR REGISTRATION - join us Sep 14-16 in Giessen for the RTG 2355 International Conference as we explore RNA’s critical functions! Register 👉tinyurl.com/rtg2355conf We have slots for short talks and a poster session in the "Palmenhaus", so submit an abstract to present your own work!

Happy to share the Preview by RTG PIs Cornelia Kilchert & Katja Sträßer on the recent paper @cp-molcell.bsky.social by Tian et al on LENG8's role in nuclear RNA quality control. Here's 50 days' free access - so check it out before June 05, 2026! kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

Very thankful to @embo.org for generously supporting Jan’s research stay at David Tollervey’s lab @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social with a Scientific Exchange Grant! - @rtg2355.bsky.social research

Happy to share the work by Fabienne Becker et al in #NAR, showing how yeast Tho1-CTD stimulates helicase activity of Sub2, homologue of human DDX39B/UAP56, by promoting Sub2 oligomerization on RNA. The scaffolding mechanism is shared across species: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Tho1 and MOS11 promote nucleic acid double-strand unwinding by facilitating DEAD-box helicase oligomerization

Abstract. DEAD-box helicases are essential for gene expression and RNA metabolism. However, the mechanisms regulating their activity remain largely elusive

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Happy to announce our RTG 2355 International Conference “Regulatory landscapes of RNA: From code to control”, Sept 14-16, 2026 in Giessen, Germany. Topics cover #RNA as messenger, recruiting platform, sponge, regulator & sensor. 👉tinyurl.com/rtg2355conf Save the date – registration opens May 1!

#jlugiessen zeichnet erstmals drei Forschungslabore mit #LEAF-Zertifikat für nachhaltige Laborpraxis aus. Prämiert wurden drei Arbeitsgruppen in #OrganischeChemie und #AnorganischeundAnalytischeChemie. Glückwunsch! #nachhaltigkeit #LEAF www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns... Foto: Katrina Friese

Looking to do a postdoc? Explore this fantastic opportunity to do a postdoc at a Max Planck institute. Applications for this program are due by October 13, 2025. hashtag#maxplancksociety hashtag#postdoc www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...

Max Planck Postdoc Program

Launching in April 2025, the Max Planck Postdoc Program features structured application calls and a comprehensive support system for researchers.

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🚨 Please share! We are seeking motivated PhD students who wish to work at the intersection of molecular life sciences and computational sciences. #IMPRS #IMPRSBAC @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @maxplanck.de Check out our projects and apply by Jan 7th, 2026! www.molgen.mpg.de/IMPRSPhDproj...

@rtg2355.bsky.social PhD candidate Fabienne Becker from the Friedhoff lab recently presented her work on nucleic acid double strand unwinding by Sub2 & UAP56 DEAD-box helicases at the 2025 GGL conference @jlugiessen.bsky.social - the corresponding manuscript is close to resubmission! 😉

Very timely review for those of you who have been following all of the recent developments in this area... also @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social why can't we share via bsky directly from the article???

Trends in Biochemical Sciences@cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social · last yr.

📝 Available online - the Feature Review "From transcription to export: mRNA’s winding path to the cytoplasm" from Murray Stewart. #mRNAProcessing #NuclearExport #RibonucleoproteinComplex Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

I did a thing. I wrote a textbook about #RNA. I wrote it so that those without formal science training could understand what RNA is and how it is used in medicine. It releases in the US and Europe on September 8th. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

#Forschungsdesign bedeutet u. a. den aktuellen Forschungsstand zu berücksichtigen, vorhandene Forschungsleistungen einzubeziehen und unbewusste Verzerrungen zu vermeiden. Leitlinie 9 der #GWP erläutert diese Grundsätze im Detail: https://www.wissenschaftliche-integritaet.de/kodex/forschungsdesign/

Forschungsdesign - Wissenschaftliche Integrität

Wissenschaftler*innen berücksichtigen bei der Planung eines Vorhabens den aktuellen Forschungsstand umfassend und erkennen ihn an. Die Identifikation relevanter und geeigneter Forschungs- fragen setzt sorgfältige Recherche nach bereits öffentlich zugänglich gemachten Forschungsleistungen voraus....

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My PhD student @leonielorenz.bsky.social (with Eva Geissen) has made this nice (free) online course to introduce mathematical modelling for biology: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl... Including both molecular and epidemiological examples

Mathematical modelling for biologists - Modelling concepts in biological research

Mathematical modelling for biologists - Modelling concepts in biological research

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New paper out by RTG2355 members Jennifer Kothe, Theresa Dietz, Robina Scheuer & Elena Evguenieva-Hackenberg, identifying a new attenuation mechanism that apparently monitors ribosome availability and translation efficiency in the soil bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti

Early posttranscriptional response to tetracycline exposure in a gram-negative soil bacterium reveals unexpected attenuation mechanism of a DUF1127 gene

The gram-negative, soil-dwelling plant symbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti shares its free-living habitat with antibiotic producers. To learn about early steps of its adaptation to antibiotics, we anal...

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Postdoc positions in structural biology of RNA processing complexes. An ERC-funded position will dissect pre-mRNA processing pathways in the infective organism Trypanosoma brucei. An ANR-funded position will characterise large complexes in RNA modification. Details: tinyurl.com/postdoc-RNA-...

Postdoc in Structural Biology of RNA processing complexes

Postdoctoral positions in structural biology of macromolecular complexes are available in the laboratory of Dr. Eva Kowalinski at the EMBL Grenoble, France. We are looking for highly motivated and amb...

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And here goes another one - @rtg2355.bsky.social-member Fabienne Becker from the Friedhoff lab presented her research at the 2025 Helicase Conference in Lisbon today: "The Conserved C-terminal Domain of Tho1 Stimulates the DEAD-box Helicase Sub2" - more coming soon #proudCoordinator 😉

Proudly presenting one of our associated PhD candidates @rtg2355.bsky.social - go Palina!

Sträßer lab@straesserlab.bsky.social · last yr.

Palina Kot from @straesserlab.bsky.social recently gave a talk on her "Structural and Functional Insights into the Sub2-Yra1-Tho1 Complex in Nuclear mRNP Biogenesis" at the 2nd Polish RNA Biology Meeting in Poznan - #proudPI

✨ Deadline extended! There’s still time to apply: September Science Academy - international summer school for women in the molecular life sciences. Deadline: July 14, 📍 Marburg, Germany www.mpi-marburg.mpg.de/1489492/Sept... #WomenInSTEM #SummerSchool

September Science Academy

The September Science Academy for microbial and molecular biosciences is a fully funded international summer school for women in science and scientists of underrepresented genders in an advanced stage of their PhD or an early postdoctoral stage. Hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, the program invites early-career scientists from all over the world to explore cutting-edge research, connect with the institute’s scientific community, and discover new career opportunities.

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Back from another great retreat to Schmitten, Taunus - this year with guests from @4r-rtg.bsky.social and from @jlugiessen.bsky.social and @mpi-hlr.bsky.social core facilities. We had inspiring method sessions on scientific diagrams & statistics, complexome proteomics, microscopy & image analysis ..

🚨 We’re hiring ! 🚨 Join our cutting-edge research team as a molecular biologist at @nanoporetech.com HQ in Oxford. Perfect for a fresh PhD or MSc with a couple of years’ experience. Work at the interface of chemistry, molecular/synthetic biology and AI 👉 ejnh.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Choosing the Best Journal for Your Paper - An upcoming webinar from Nature Masterclasses: masterclasses.nature.com/courses-comi...

Courses coming soon

Find out about research training online courses that will be available soon on the Nature Masterclasses on-demand platform. Learn from experts.

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RTG PIs Katharina Höfer and Katja Sträßer presented recent research from their labs at the RNA Society Conference in San Diego.

Latest from the Nature Careers Podcast 🔊 Salary negotiations: a guide for scientists www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Salary negotiations: a guide for scientists

Seasoned negotiators share tips on how to handle conversations around pay, bonuses, benefits and contract length.

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A great overview of methods to investigate RNA modifications 😊 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Wow! This is an exciting and important action!

Jen MacKinnon@jenmackinnon.bsky.social · last yr.

Hi friends - In the face of unprecedented cuts to the basic research science funding, climate scientists are staging an 100-hour live stream of why science matters. There will be many talks on all sorts of things (I'm Saturday at 12:30 PT). Please share widely! wcstreamathon.netlify.app. 🌊🧪

Plüsch-Patienten willkommen: #Teddyklinik Gießen öffnet ihre Tore. Kinder dürfen vom 3. bis 6. Juni 2025 ihre Stofftiere und Puppen von Medizinstudierenden verarzten lassen www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

I received one of the 232 NIH grant "terminations" sent to scientists at Columbia last night. My research focuses on improving maternal and child health in the US. Also affected: ongoing clinical trials, research training programs, and research centers that aim to improve the health of Americans.

Hundreds of research grants at Columbia canceled following Trump edict, administrator says

The National Institutes of Health is terminating 232 grants for scientific research at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, according to an email an administrator sent to faculty.

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