The number of grant applications is rising sharply. Our capacity for their evaluation isn’t.
ERC President Maria Leptin explains why stricter resubmission limits are being introduced for 2027 calls and what they mean for applicants.
🔗 link.europa.eu/xF7kjc
I'm particularly delighted to be hosted by my former MSc thesis student in my PhD, Fabian Poetz, now postdoc in the @marcbuhler.bsky.social lab at FMI. Thanks for having me!
Happy to be invited to the @fmiscience.bsky.social Basel for the "FMI Young Investigator Seminar Series" last week, and to talk to PhDs and postdocs about career choices.
www.fmi.ch/courses/yiss/
Rhineland RNA Club meetings are made possible by the generous support of the @rnasociety.bsky.social, Lexogen,
@sitoolsbiotech.bsky.social, @immagina.bsky.social and
@twistbioscience.com, organized at the @mpiage.bsky.social by Ina @inahuppertz.bsky.social!
Friday 27th March, we had a great 11th Rhineland RNA Club meeting @mpiage.bsky.social with inspiring PhD, postdoc and invited speakers. It's great to see how the community covers a range of topics of all corners of RNA science. Special thanks to @mschosserer.bsky.social & @trentini-lab.bsky.social
DKFZ Alumni Event for PhDs and Postdocs about Uncertainty in Academia. Happy to be back and give back with perspective.
DKFZ Careers & Alumni Relations #AcademicAfternoon @dkfz.bsky.social
Event: www.linkedin.com/posts/dkfz-a...
Take-Homes: www.linkedin.com/posts/dkfz-a...
Congrats Furqan! This looks super cool and a useful protocol! Excited for your lab and your upcoming stories using this.
Check out the latest RNA Salon feature highlighting the importance of local community meetings! @rnasociety.bsky.social #RNA
www.rnasociety.org/featured-sal...
Misinformation about mRNA vaccines is shaping legislation & policy. We wrote this for anyone who needs a rigorous, citable resource to push back against false narratives. #mRNA #GetTheMessage #Vaccines #HHS #FDA #CDC
rnajournal.cshlp.org/content/earl...
She gave an amazing award lecture on "Enzymes made of DNA and RNA", with a laudatio by Andrea Rentmeister (@rentmeisterlab.bsky.social).
@gdchbiochem.bsky.social @gdchbiochem.bsky.social h.de #Biochemistry #Chemistry #ChemBio #RNA #DNA #Structure
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!
#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
CC: @gdch.de
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
Kathrin @katleppek.bsky.social and Ina @inahuppertz.bsky.social cordially invite all RNA enthusiasts based in the Rhineland to attend our series of inspiring in-person talks on RNA-related topics, delivered by local and invited speakers.
Most successful University of Excellence - In the atrium of the rectorate building, University members watched with bated breath as the decision on excellence was announced.
Most successful University of Excellence - Rector Hoch, together with the Rectorate and hundreds of guests, burst into cheers when the decision was announced.
Great news—We remain the most successful German University of Excellence! With eight Clusters of Excellence and funding secured until 2033, we’re moving closer to our goal of establishing our Uni permanently among the best universities in the world: www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/040-...
© VL/Uni Bonn
We are looking for RNA enthusiasts to join us at the @uniregensburg.bsky.social as a junior group leader! Our university offer excellent infrastructure and collaboration opportunities for ground breaking RNA research. Please RT @jrrnascientists.bsky.social @rnasociety.bsky.social
How could a simple self-replicating system emerge at the origins of life? RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but existing ones are so large that their self-replication seems impossible. Could they be smaller?
Excited to share our latest work in @science.org on a new small polymerase.
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We are recruiting a computational scientist for a postdoc position to work on detecting RNA modifications using nanopore sequencing:
tinyurl.com/RiboComp
Deadline March 4th.
Please share and repost!
More on the group: www.bric.ku.dk/research-gro...
We had a great day at the 1st RNA Confluence Meeting of Rhine-Main-Neckar region German RNA Clubs(+Strasbourg) with 200 attendees & trainee talks at EMBL Heidelberg yesterday. Particularly proud of Sam and Philipp taking home 2 poster prizes (of 100 posters)! 🎉 🐙 Special thanks to Alessia and Venki!
You are on such a run, Kelly! Congrats all around! 🎉
I got blocked by ChatGTP twice in one hour. Yes, I want to target RNA structure, that is my job. No, I do not want to harm people nor design a super virus bioweapon. While I should probably be happy this safety check is in place, I happily dive into the literature myself...
Just out @natrevimmunol.nature.com
RNA-binding proteins and ribonucleoproteins as determinants of immunity
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
gives our perspective on this growing area of research. Special thanks to the editor Alexandra, for streamlining the manuscript.
Thank you Martin for writing this. Gave it to my lab to read right away.
Tom Cech on RNA research in Davos (video): www.weforum.org/meetings/wor...
And you got February!
We had a fantastic time at the Ribo-Seq workshop in Bonn. Thanks so much, Kathrin @katleppek.bsky.social and Ranen, for organizing! We learned a lot, and we're excited to use Ribo-Seq in future projects.
So far the feedback has been enthusiastic! The group is working on a wide variety of sample sets from diverse origins and biological questions in this first-of-its-kind practical course in the Cluster. We are very grateful for the support to teach immunologists how to study translation.
We are well into our 5-day Cluster Workshop on Ribosome Profiling (Ribo-seq) run by sabbatical scientist Ranen Aviner @czbiohub.bsky.social. We welcome PhDs and PIs from Bonn/Cologne for a hands-on and analysis course sponsored by the Cluster @immunosens.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social UKB.
Last Friday, we had an inspiring 10th Rhineland RNA Club meeting with top class speakers. It's great to see how the community is growing and the range of topics we're covering. Special thanks to Didier Stainier @stainierlab.bsky.social Simon Bekker-Jensen @bekkerjensenlab.bsky.social, Ranen Aviner!