👋 It’s been four weeks since our fantastic SFB 131 symposium, which featured an amazing line up and great participants.

🎬 Watch the video to relive the vibe!

Join us for a 📢 #CIBSS / @sfb1381.bsky.social Joint Seminar!

🗓 21 Apr 2026 | 12:00–13:00
👉 @nikfortelny.bsky.social (@unisalzburg.bsky.social)

📍 Lecture Hall, Institute of Biology I, Hauptstr. 1

🔗More info: kurzlinks.de/c295

#SynBio #ProteinEngineering #MultiOmics

Congratulations to our SFB 1381 PIs Claudine Kraft and Carola Hunte and their teams - great story on the link between the mitochondrial fission and autophagy machinery!

Great collaboration project including our SFB 1381 PIs Claudine Kraft, Pitter Huesgen and Thomas Ott!

Join us for an exciting talk by Tristan Wagner this Thursday, April 16!

A fresh cohort of doctoral candidates has been successfully admitted to our SFB 1381 track at the Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine (SGBM).

🎉 Congratulations to Philippe Brausch, Céline Moog and Antoine Feignier and 👋 welcome to our SFB!

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@uni-freiburg.de, @asifa-akhtar.bsky.social, @archaellum.bsky.social, @clausenlab.bsky.social, @cellarchlab.com, @ewerslab.bsky.social, @kraftlabfr.bsky.social, @lemkelab.bsky.social, @mitodynamics.bsky.social, @melaniemcdowell.bsky.social, @meisingermitolab.bsky.social, @voegtlelab.bsky.social

What a blast! 🎉

Our International Symposium last week gathered 27 world class speakers and over 200 participants. From electrifying plenary talks to vibrant poster session chats, the energy was palpable and the atmosphere truly unforgettable.

A massive thank you to all speakers and attendees!

Congratulations 🎉 to SFB 1381 student Iga Grzadzielewska, who successfully defended her doctoral thesis at the University of Freiburg.

All the best for the future, Dr. Grzadzielewska!

@biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social
@mpi-ie.bsky.social

Getting ready for our upcoming symposium! We are excited to welcome our international speakers and all other participants to Freiburg next week for what promises to be an unforgettable SFB 1381 Symposium.

Our SFB 131´s Female Minds series comes full circle - launched last year for International Women’s Day, it now concludes with a final post featuring Nora Vögtle from Heidelberg University.

Check out the interview on our web page:
www.sfb1381.uni-freiburg.de/sfb-1381s-fe...

#womeninstem

Congratulations to our SFB 1381 PI Thomas Ott and his team!

The 2nd International Symposium of our SFB is coming up soon - registrations ends this Friday, Feb 27, so hurry and sign up if you'd like to join!

www.sfb1381.uni-freiburg.de/symposium2026

The cotranslational cycle of the ribosome-bound Hsp70 homolog Ssb - Nature Communications Ribosomal translation is coupled to cotranslational protein folding, process assisted by dedicated chaperones. Here, authors present structures of the ribosome-bound yeast Hsp70 chaperone Ssb, identif...

New publication by our SFB reveals interactions between chaperones and the ribosomal machinery using cryo-EM.

The study of Sabine Rospert (project B08), Thorsten Hugel (project B07) and David Haselbach (former project B11), was published in Nature Communications:
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

The screening of the movie "Picture a Scientist" in our SFB last week sparked a lively discussion that connected the stories on screen to today’s academic realities, especially the persistent leaky pipeline.
Thanks to our hosts, the panelists, and everyone who contributed to the thoughtful exchange!

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧪 Don't forget to send in your nominations for the FEBS | EMBO #WomenInScience Award.

Deadline: 15 May

Read more:
www.embo.org/the-embo-communities/feb...
#award

There are still spots available - join us this Wednesday for the streaming of "Picture a Scientist"!

terminplaner6.dfn.de/b/792ff9ee43...

In the first feature of our "SFB 1381´s Female Minds" series in 2026 we talked to Asifa Akhtar, director at the MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics and vice speaker of our SFB.

Find the interview on our web page: www.sfb1381.uni-freiburg.de/sfb-1381s-fe...

@mpi-ie.bsky.social
#womeninstem

Movie 📽️ Night Alert - join us for the streaming “Picture a Scientist” plus an open discussion led by three of our SFB 1381´s female minds.

When: Wednesday, Feb 04, 4:15 pm
Where: ZBMZ, Stefan-Meier-Str. 17, Room Nr 01 006

Save your spot here:
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Last week our SFB and RTG 2606 hosted another successful „Career Paths in Life Sciences” event.

A big thanks to our speakers André Schmandke, Anna Resch, Stephanie Ketterer and Marina Toplak for sharing their personal career stories and participating in the discussion session with the attendees!

Huge congratulations 🎉 on the first PhD defense in our SFB in 2026:
Shamphavi Sivabalasarma successfully defended her thesis at the University of Freiburg.

All the best for the future, Dr. Sivabalasarma!

@sshamphavi.bsky.social
@sgbmfreiburg.bsky.social
@biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social

Join the talk by Frederica Locci this Friday - co-hosted by our SFB!

Join us for a 📢 #CIBSS / SFB 1381 Joint Seminar

🗓 13 Jan 2026 | 12:00–13:00
👉 @jmathony.bsky.social (#uniheidelberg)
🎙 Engineering stimulus-controlled proteins through modular domain recombination
📍 Lecture Hall, Institute of Biology I, Hauptstr. 1

🔗 kurzlinks.de/4mlv

#SynBio #ProteinEngineering

Join us for our next career afternoon on Wednesday January 14!

Save your spot here:
terminplaner6.dfn.de/b/08c0d56aac...

Don’t miss the final feature of the year in our “SFB 1381’s Female Mind” series: this time we talked to Ipek Akol, one of our SFB 1381 Young Investigator Grantees.

Find the interview on our web page: www.sfb1381.uni-freiburg.de/sfb-1381s-fe...

#womeninstem

How do you turn cryo-EM data into a 3D structure?

A recent workshop by our Cryo-EM Facility answered this question by demonstrating the full workflow from raw data to a 3D map using CryoSPARC.

Thanks to Stefan Steimle (Cryo-EM Facility) and Florian Schneider (SFB 1381) for hosting!

Last week, our early career researchers gathered in Heidelberg for their annual retreat!

The agenda included inspiring lectures, flash talks, plenty of discussions and a visit to the Christmas market.

Overall, the retreat strengthened the scientific and social connections within the SFB 1381!

Because computational structure prediction plays a key role in our SFB’s work, it was fantastic to have our early career researchers join the workshop “Practical Approaches to Protein Structure Prediction: AlphaFold and More.”

A big thank-you to Florian Schneider (project A04) for hosting!

Our SFB 1381 student Mohd Areeb successfully defended his doctoral thesis at the University of Freiburg last week!

Congratulations 🎉 Areeb and all the best for your future!

@biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social
@sgbmfreiburg.bsky.social

Join us today (Wednesday, Nov 26) for a talk by Dejana Mokranjac from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich -she is going to present the latest results from her mitochondrial research.
We are very much looking forward to her presentation!

@mokranjaclab.bsky.social