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21.05.2025
Our CRC’s Günter Blobel Lecture Series continues on May 21, 2025, with the guest lecture of Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Pfanner from the University of Freiburg. He will talk about “Protein biogenesis and architecture of mitochondria” at 12:30 in seminar room N100/0.15 in the Biocenter.
04.04.2025
On Friday, April 4, we are welcoming Dr. James Sáenz from the Dresden University of Technology. At 12:30 he will give a guest lecture about „From genomically minimal bacteria to an RNA-lipid world“ in the Biocenter’s seminar room N100/1.14.
21.03.2025
We are pleased to welcome Prof. Dr. Peter Rehling from the Georg August University Göttingen on Friday, March 21, 2025 at 13:30 in the Biocenter (seminar room N100/015). He will give insights into his research in his guest lecture about „Building a power plant: mitochondrial protein biogenesis“.
14.03.2025
The CRC 1507 is hosting a symposium in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Early Career Award on March 14, the birthday of Paul Ehrlich. Eight current and former awardees will present their fascinating research, among them this year’s award winner Tobias Ackels, and Andrea Ablasser who received the Early Career Award in 2014 and is now one of this year’s Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Main Prize winners. The symposium takes place in lecture hall H2 of the Otto Stern Center on Campus Riedberg from 10:00 to 14:00. Guests are welcome!
25.02.2025
We are looking forward to the guest lecture of Prof. Dr. Maki Tsujita from the Nagoya City University in Japan on Tuesday, February 25. At 12:30 she will give her presentation about “Sudden death syndrome and lipid disorders” in seminar room N100/114 in the Biocenter.
31.01.2025
We are happy to welcome Prof. Dr. Vera Moiseenkova-Bell on Friday, January 31, as the next guest speaker within the frame of our Günter Blobel Lecture Series. She will talk about “Structural pharmacology in TRPV channels” at 12:30 in seminar room N100/015 in the Biocenter.
18.12.2024
The CRC welcomes Prof. Dr. Matthias Buck from the Case Western Reserve University in Ohio shortly before Christmas to talk about „Eph receptor and Ras GTPase proteins in and around the membrane: Adventures in solution NMR, Molecular Dynamics Simulations and with Alphafold“.
05.11.2024
The collaboration of CRC Projects 08 and 09 resulted in another publication in Nature Communications. Congratulations to the Covino and Heilemann groups!
31.10.2024
We welcome Prof. Dr. Peter Steinberger from the Medical University of Vienna as our first guest speaker in the winter semester 2024/25. He will talk about “Interrogating ligand-receptor interactions using cellular biosensors – TCR recognition, CAR signaling and beyond” on Thursday, October 31, 2024 at 12:30 in lecture hall B3 in the Biocenter.
11.10.2024
We would like to thank all the participants and guests of our International Symposium „New Horizons in Membrane Biology“ in Frankfurt for making this conference such a great event!
17.07.2024
Our Günter Blobel Lecture Series continues on July 17, 2024 with the presentation of Prof. Dr. Cristina Paulino from the Heidelberg University Biochemistry Center (BZH) about “Think like a channel, act like a carrier – The case of SLC9C1, a voltage-gated sperm-specific Na+/H+ exchanger” at 12:30 in the Biocenter (N100/0.15). In the afternoon she will provide the CRC’s PhD students with insights into her career path.
05.07.2024
The CRC 1507 hosts its second Günter Blobel Early Career Group Leader Symposium on July 5th, 2024 at 10 AM. Four outstanding young scientists present their fascinating work in lecture hall H2 of the Otto Stern Center on Campus Riedberg.
27.06.2024
We are welcoming Prof. Dr. Erkan Karakas from Vanderbilt University on June 27, 2024 who will present his work on “Structural insights into the activation and gating mechanisms of IP3 receptors” at 12:30 in the Biocenter (N100/1.14).
24.06.2024
Prof. Dr. Joerg Bewersdorf from Yale University gives the next Günter Blobel guest lecture on June 24, 2024 at 12:30 about “All-optical super-resolution imaging of molecules in their nanoscale cellular context” (Biocenter, N/B2).
19.06.2024
In line with our Günter Blobel Lecture Series, Prof. Dr. Bert Poolman from the University of Groningen visits the Biocenter on June 19, 2024 for his guest lecture about “Synthetic non-equilibrium vesicle systems for physicochemical homeostasis and membrane transport” (12:30, N100/0.15) and a career talk in the afternoon.
27.05.2024
The next guest speaker within the frame of our Günter Blobel Lecture Series is Prof. Dr. Sarah Veatch from the University of Michigan who will talk about „Biological tuning of the membrane phase transition facilitates plasma membrane organization and function“ on May 27, 2024 in the Biocenter on Campus Riedberg.
08.05.2024
On Wednesday, May 8, we are welcoming Dr. Berislav Bošnjak from the Institute of Immunology at Hannover Medical School. He will give a guest lecture on „Harnessing protective functions of CD8 T cells to combat cytomegalovirus infections“ at 12:30 in seminar room N100/0.15 and later in the afternoon a career talk for our PhD students.
24.04.2024
As our first guest in the summer semester 2024 we welcome Dr. Idlir Liko from Oxford, Technical Director of OMass Therapeutics. His visit includes a career talk and a guest lecture titled „*Un*druggable – a native MS approach in finding novel therapeutics“ on Wednesday, April 24, at 12:30 in the Biocenter (N100/0.15).
13.03.2024
We are welcoming Prof. Dr. Marc Nowaczyk from the University of Rostock, who will give a guest lecture about „Structure and function of cyanobacteria membrane protein complexes“ on March 13, 2024 at 12:30 in the Biocenter (N100/0.15). Afterwards, he will stay for a career talk with the MAPS students.
01.12.2023
We are very pleased that Prof. Dr. Inga Hänelt, principal investigator of CRC project 4 and head of the IRTG, has been honored by the Goethe University for her exceptional research and strong commitment to the promotion of young researchers receiving the award „Scientist of the Year“ donated by the Alfons & Gertrud Kassel-Stiftung. Congratulations!
15.11.2023
Our next Günter Blobel Lecture takes place on November 15th 2023 at 12:30 noon in the Biocenter: Prof. Dr. Marek Basler from the University of Basel will present his work on „Spatial and temporal regulation of Type 6 Secretion System dynamics during interactions with bacterial and eukaryotic cells“. In the afternoon, Prof. Basler will meet up with the MAPS students for a career talk.
06.09.2023
Dr. Bonnie J. Murphy (project 15) has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for her innovative research to determine structures of proteins involved in the cellular energy metabolism. Congratulations!
14.07.2023
We are happy to announce that Prof. Dr. Min Chen from the University of Massachusetts Amherst visits Frankfurt for a guest lecture about „Nanopore biosensing: From proteomics, genomics, and drug discovery“ on July 14th 2023 at 12:30 in the Biocenter (seminar room N100/015).
11.07.2023
A publication from project P18 about the activation of the immune system by dendritic cells has been featured on the homepage of Goethe University Frankfurt: https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/forschung/die-scharfmacher-wie-dendritische-zellen-das-immunsystem-aktivieren/
05.07.2023
Prof. Dr. Michael Schlame from New York University Langone Health is welcomed in the Biocenter to give a guest lecture about „Why do mitochondria need cardiolipin?“ on July 5th 2023 at 13:00 in lecture hall B3.
16.06.2023
The CRC’s Günter Blobel Lecture Series continue with Prof. Dr. Gary Rudnick from Yale University School of Medicine and his guest lecture on „Conformational change in NSS transporters: Roles in ion-substrate coupling and drug design“, on June 16th 2023 (11:30 am) in the Biocenter’s seminar room N100/114.
02.06.2023
We are welcoming our next guest speaker on June 2nd 2023: Prof. Dr. Attilio V. Vargiu from the University of Cagliari will present his work on „A computational protocol to generate druggable protein conformations“ at 12:30 in the Biocenter (seminar room N100/015).
26.04.2023
The successful collaboration within CRC projects P12 and P17 led to an exciting publication in Nature about the determination of unknown molecular structures inside the central transport channel of the mammalian nuclear pore complex. Utilizing a combination of microscopy and molecular simulations, a dynamic protein network at the center of the pore is identified which acts as a flexible transport barrier selectively letting pass messengers and blocking pathogens. („Visualizing the disordered nuclear transport machinery in situ“, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05990-0)
April 2023
A structure from our CRC has been highlighted as Molecule of the Month at RCSB Protein Data Bank (https://pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/280).
06.04.2023
On Thursday, April 6th at 10:30, Prof. Dr. Jonathan A. Javitch from Columbia University will talk about „Deciphering mechanisms of activation in metabotropic glutamate receptor heterodimers“ (Biocenter, seminar room N100/015).
30.03.2023
The CRC 1507 hosts an Early Career Group Leader Symposium on Thursday, March 30th, 2023 (10:00 am). This event gathers intriguing young scientists and is the start of the CRC‘s newly established Günter Blobel Lecture Series. The connection of Günter Blobel to the Institute of Biochemistry started during his studies of Medicine/Biochemistry in Frankfurt and was revived in 2002 during his honorary Rolf-Sammet Professorship at Goethe University.
09.03.2023
Dr. Niels Fischer from the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen visits our CRC for scientific exchange of advances in single-particle cryo-EM and will give a guest lecture about „Visualizing the dynamic machinery of translation initiation in humans“ in the Biocenter on March 9th, 2023 at 13:00.
01.02.2023
Much looking forward to Dr. Katia Cosentino (Molecular Cell Biophysics, University of Osnabrück) and her talk on „Membrane pores in cell death: from pore assembly to structure by single-molecule approaches“. Guests are welcome to join the lecture on Feb 1st, 2023 at 13:15 in the Biocenter.
18.01.2023
Happy to announce the first guest lecture of 2023: On Wednesday, Jan 18th at 13:00 c.t., Prof. Dr. Rose-John from Biochemistry Department of Christian Albrechts University Kiel will give a lecture (Biocenter, seminar room 0.15) on „Interleukin-6 and ADAM17: Proteolysis, Pathophysiology and Implications for Therapy of Autoimmune Disease“.
22.11.2022
We are very delighted that Dr. Bonnie J. Murphy, principal investigator of project 15, has been granted a membership of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme. She is one of 24 life scientists who will join the EMBO Young Investigator network and receive financial and practical support for a period of four years. We compliment Bonnie on joining this programme for excellent group leaders.
17.11.2022
We are excited to announce that Prof. Dr. Sabine Petry, Dept of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, will talk about „How to make microtubules and build the cytoskeleton“ on Thursday, 11/17/2022 at 11:30 am (s.t.) at the Goethe University Biozentrum, seminar room 0.15 (check Twitter news for the remote access).
31.10.2022
In the frame of the seminar series of the CRC, we are happy to announce that Prof. Dr. Blanche Schwappach-Pignataro, Dean of the University Medical Center Hamburg, will visit us for a lecture. Her lecture „GETting to the Endoplasmic Reticulum – Hairpin proteins as non-canonical targeting clients of the ‚Guided Entry for Tail-anchored proteins‘ pathway“ will take place on Monday, 10/31/2022 at 11 am at the Goethe University Biozentrum (check notices for the lecture hall).
01.09.2022
The CRC proudly welcomed its first guest lectures in the Biocenter of Goethe University. Prof. Stephanie Gras and Dr. Christopher Szeto from the Gras Lab at La Trobe University came all the way from Australia to talk about „Fight against COVID-19: functional and structural study of the T cell response“.
