Congratulations to our alumna Sarah Emmert, who received one of the GDCh Biochemistry Yound Scientist Awards! Here some of Sarah's work during her PhD at EPFL and @chem.uzh.ch: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
She gave an amazing award lecture on "Enzymes made of DNA and RNA", with a laudatio by Andrea Rentmeister (@rentmeisterlab.bsky.social).
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Warmest congratulations to Claudia Höbartner on being awarded the Albrecht-Kossel-Preis! Claudia is honored for the first structure of a DNAzyme and for the development of ribozymes with methyl transferase activity.
Thank you so much, Claudia (@chlab.bsky.social) and Kathrin (@klanglab.bsky.social), for organizing this excellent event #Biochemistry2026 in Würzburg, and for having me!
Congratulations to all poster award winners of #Biochemistry2026!
Thank you so much, @chlab.bsky.social and @klanglab.bsky.social, for putting together a truly excellent event!
We wish everyone safe travels back and hope to see many of you at the next event in 2028. (2/2)
#Biochemistry2026 comes to an end!
We especially want to thank our organizers, Claudia Höbartner (@chlab.bsky.social) and Kathrin Lang (@klanglab.bsky.social), for an amazing job and all participants for making this a great conference. (1/2)
#Biochemistry #Chemistry #ChemBio
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Evgeniia Dorinova from the group of Claudia Höbartner (@chlab.bsky.social) was awarded a poster award for her poster: "Alkyltransferase Ribozyme for Site-specific N4-Cytidine Alkylation"
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Stefan Jungwirth from the group of Utz Fischer was awarded a poster award for his poster: "Cooperative clamp-mediated promoter recognition by poxviral RNA polymerase and its TBP/TFIIB-like partner"
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Felix Veitl from the group of Arne Skerra was awarded a poster award for his poster: "Engineering and Structural Elucidation of a Sac7d-Derived IgG Fc-Specific Affitin for the Light-Controlled Affinity Purification of Antibodies"
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Congratulations to the winners of the poster awards at #Biochemistry2026:
Felix Veitl
Stefan Jungwirth
Evgeniia Dorinova
We thank the Royal Society of Chemistry and Wiley for sponsoring the poster prizes!
The poster awards were awarded for these posters: (1/4)
#Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio
In the final talk of #Biochemistry2026, Stefan Raunser (@raunser-lab.bsky.social) gave an exciting overview of his group's research on "Unlocking the secrets of the cytoskeleton and heart muscle".
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
#Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio #Structure #cryoEM
How are the receptors in the synapse organized?
Diego Ortiz-López from the Hermann Schindelin group discussed his research at #Biochemistry2026. He talked about the organization of receptors in the inhibitory postsynapse by organization of gephyrin oligomers.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How do our muscles work on a molecular scale?
Stefan Raunser (@raunser-lab.bsky.social) gave an inspiring lecture at #Biochemistry2026 on his group's work, in which they elucidate this question with a combination of biochemistry and structural biology.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
"Cryo-EM Structures of Higher-Order Gephyrin Oligomers Revealing Principles of Inhibitory Postsynaptic Scaffold Organization"
Diego Ortiz-López from the group of Hermann Schindelin (@en-hxnu-enment.bsky.social) gave an great talk on this topic at #Biochemistry2026.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Julia Bartoli gave an insightful talk at #Biochemistry2026 about the topic "A host tRNA Drives Assembly of a Cytoplasmic Viral Transcription Machine".
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Biochemistry #cryoEM #ChemSky #ChemBio #tRNA #RNA #Virus
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"Dynamics of A-Minor Interactions in the Bacterial Ribosome"
Christian Steinmetzger (@stonebutcher.bsky.social) talked at #Biochemistry2026 about his work on this topic in the group of @katjapetzold.bsky.social.
#Biochemistry #Ribosome #ChemSky #ChemBio #NMR
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Installation of tRNA modifications is key to protein synthesis.
In her presentation at #Biochemistry2026, Carine Tisné presented her group's in depth work on structural and functional studies to understand the underlying processes on the example of m1A.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Carine Tisné gave an insightful talk at #Biochemistry2026. She talked about "Advances in the structural and functional understanding of m1A tRNA modification".
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
#Biochemistry #RNA #tRNA #ChemSky #Biochemistry #Methylation
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How can we study the function of nucleotide-based #SecondMessengers?
@oliveiramann.bsky.social presented her group's exciting findings in this field at #Biochemistry2026. She e.g. presented the #cryoEM structure of OAS2, which has key #antiviral functions.
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...
"Nucleotidyltransferases and nucleotide-based second messengers"
Carina Baer de Oliveira Mann (@oliveiramann.bsky.social) gave an insightful talk on this topic at #Biochemistry2026.
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#Biochemistry #SecondMessenger #CyclicNucleotide
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Great talk by Kathrin Leppek (@katleppek.bsky.social) at #Biochemistry2026. She talked about her work on the topic "Synthetic circRNAs employ IRES activity for translation in cells and in cell-free translation systems".
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#ChemSky #Biochemistry #ChemBio #RNA #IRES
How can #epigenetic modifications of #DNA be studied to better understand #biology?
In her talk at #Biochemistry2026, @sabschn.bsky.social talked about her group's exciting work on developing new TET3 enzymes that improve epigenetic sequencing.
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#ChemSky #Biochemistry
Interesting talk by Sabine Schneider (@sabschn.bsky.social) at #Biochemistry2026. She talked about her group's work on "Novel TET3 enzymes for next-generation epigenetic sequencing".
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#Epigenetics #Biochemistry #ChemBio #ChemSky #Sequencing #TET
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How can #extremophilic #archaea make proteins in almost boiling water?
At #Biochemistry2026, Schraga Schwartz gave a lecture about the many interesting #RNA modifications these organisms are using and how they can be studied.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio
The third day of #Biochemistry2026 is off to a great start with an inspiring lecture by Schraga Schwartz. He talked about "RNA at the Edge: Extreme Biology as a Lens on RNA Modification Principles".
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio #RNA #extremophiles #Archaea
Congratulations to Claudia Höbartner (@chlab.bsky.social) on being awarded the prestigious Albrecht-Kossel-Preis of the @gdch.de at #Biochemistry2026. A very well deserved honor.
Claudia gave an amazing award lecture on "Enzymes made of DNA and RNA".
#Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio #RNA #DNA
The award was presented by GDCh president, Ruth Bieringer, with a laudatio by Andrea Rentmeister (@rentmeisterlab.bsky.social). (2/2)
#Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio #RNA #Structure #Award
Congratulations to Claudia Höbartner (@chlab.bsky.social) on being awarded the very prestigious Albrecht-Kossel-Preis by the @gdch.de at #Biochemistry2026!
Prof. Höbartner receives this award for the first structure of a DNAzyme and the development of methyl transferase ribozymes. (1/2)