We are excited to announce the #CRC1678 Summer Symposium!
🗓️ June 22, 2026
📍 Auditorium, MPI for Biology of Ageing, Cologne
A student‑organized day of scientific exchange featuring CRC researchers and international invited speakers.
🔗 More information on our event website: uni.koeln/U7FHR
🚨Be quick! Registration is filling up fast!🚨
More than half of the registration spots for the international conference "Mitochondria Volume 3" have already been taken. Register soon if you'd like to attend this fantastic opportunity!
👉Register now: mitochondria-volume3.uni-koeln.de #mitochondria
🚨 Scholarship Alert! 🚨
🧬👩🏽🔬 Pursue your Master studies in Biology or Biochemistry in Cologne at @unicologne.bsky.social and get full funding with our CGA Master Fellowship programme.💰
📅 Apply by July 15!
🔗 Learn more: www.ageing-grad-school.de/master/maste...
We are delighted to announce that Paola Picotti has been awarded the Otto Naegeli prize for biomedical research!
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We had a fantastic time at the Rhineland RNA Club meeting—great talks and exciting new insights into RNA biology. Don’t miss out on the upcoming events!
📣#CECAD will host two exciting conferences
📆 11th - 14th October 2026 15th AHA Conference - “From mechanisms of age-associated diseases to healthy aging” uni.koeln/7X2K8
📆 14th - 16th October 2026 1stEFAR Conference - “On the Biology of Aging” uni.koeln/YGPMA
👉 Submit abstracts by May 31st
SPACO, our tool for Spatial Component Analysis for Spatial Sequencing Data, is now available as R package on CRAN!🎉 Congratulations to the team!!! We also have a Docker image which is available on Zenodo. #SpatialTranscriptomics #DimensionalityReduction
🔬🧬 A protein complex as a cellular safeguard: Researchers at the University of Cologne have uncovered how three proteins – SMG1, SMG8, and SMG9 – work together to ensure the stability and reliability of a central RNA quality control system in cells.
Read more▶️ uni.koeln/RKFUQ
@crc1678.bsky.social
Two of our #CRC1678 PhD researchers offered a genetics workshop at the KölnerKinderUni at @unicologne.bsky.social.
“The Secret of Blue Eyes – How Does Inheritance Work?” let kids explore how traits are passed on. Thank you to Lea Kaufmann and Julia Popow for their effort and dedication! 🤗
Our paper on disease mechanisms in synucleinopathies, led by Tetiana Serdiuk, is out at Molecular Systems Biology.
#proteomics #structuralproteomics #neurodegeneration #Parkinsons #alphasynuclein #structuralbiology #ethz
@imsb-eth.bsky.social @molsystbiol.org
🚨 Publication Alert 🚨
New work from our #CRC1678 members @volkerboehm.bsky.social and Niels Gehring in @narjournal.bsky.social shows that SMG8 and SMG9 act as nonessential but crucial modulators safeguarding the efficiency and resilience of the NMD pathway.
academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
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📢 Deadline extended for the Course Catalogue!
New deadlines:
🗓 22 March
🗓 29 March
Explore the catalogue and don’t miss the chance to apply:
www.euniwell.eu/what-we-offe...
#HigherEducation #InternationalEducation #CourseCatalogue #JoinTheJourney
🚨 Speaker Alert! 🚨
We’re excited to welcome Christina Leslie to our upcoming #CRC1678 Seminar.
🧬AI models for regulatory genomics and spatial biology
📅 March 17
📍Auditorium, MPI-Age
⏰ 3:00 PM
Join us to explore cutting‑edge AI models shaping regulatory genomics and spatial biology!
We had the pleasure of hosting @mariaermolaeva.bsky.social from the leibnizfli.bsky.social. Maria presented her research as part of our #FOR5762 seminar series. Her talk led to an engaging exchange of ideas and a lively discussion with the group.
#CircadianClock #Proteostasis #AgingResearch
Looking very much forward to presenting our work at tomorrow's GBM Lunch! Hope to see you ;)
@gbmev.bsky.social @uni-saarland.de @bccologne.bsky.social
🚨 Speaker Alert! 🚨
We’re excited to welcome Prof. Julien Gagneur @gagneurlab.bsky.social to our upcoming #CRC1678 Seminar
🧬Mapping Functional Genomic Elements with Supervised and Unsupervised AI
📅 March 13
📍 CECAD Lecture Hall
⏰ 2:00 PM
Explore how AI maps functional genomic elements!
Big congratulations to our #CRC1678 partner Niels Gehring! Isn't it amazing how little we understand about the molecular mechanisms of something as important as NMD?
Read this:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📢 Check out this new publication by the lab of our #CRC1678 group leader Niels Gehring!!! Congratulations 🎉
Thanks to @antebilab.bsky.social for involving us in this project! Beyer-lab member Francisco Lopes helped with the data analysis and came up with a cool way to study the stoichiometry control of ribosomal proteins. Read the preprint for more!
🚨 Speaker Alert! 🚨
We’re excited to welcome Dr. Anna Poetsch to our upcoming #CRC1678 Seminar
🧬DNA Language Models to Understand the Biology of Genomes
📅 March 5
📍 CECAD Lecture Hall
⏰ 2:30 PM
Join us for fresh insights at the intersection of computational biology and genomics. Don't miss out!
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Heute startet die KölnerKinderUniversität🎉
Kinder der Klassenstufen drei bis sechs können bis zum 2. April an vielen Vorlesungen und Workshops zu ganz unterschiedlichen Themen teilnehmen.
Mehr dazu ▶️ kinderuni.uni-koeln.de
#uniköln #unicologne #kinderuni #kölnerkinderuni #liebedeineuni
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📚🎓 Find, Write, Publish – Helpful Tools for Graduate Researchers 🎓📚
From 3 to 6 March, we are organising a programme tailored to doctoral students! 🎉 Please register: uni.koeln/9FPK7
Looking forward to continuing the collaboration with @pkdinternational.bsky.social in this new position.
🚀 STOP-PKD-News!
Das zweite Prüfzentrum in Mainz ist nun offiziell freigegeben. Weitere folgen (DE, NL, ES, AT).
Kann SGLT2-Inhibition das Fortschreiten von Zystennieren positiv beeinflussen?
Infos und Kontakte: stop-pkd.de
#STOPPKD #ADPKD
@pkdinternational.bsky.social @pkdgermany.bsky.social
🚨Publication Alert🚨
New work from our #CRC1678 members Niels Gehring and @volkerboehm.bsky.social published in @natcomms.nature.com shows that SMG5 & SMG6 PIN domains form a composite endonuclease (cPIN)
enabling efficient mRNA cleavage🧬
🧬🔬 A research team led by @kathlab.bsky.social has developed an artificial DNA base pair that works according to a new chemical principle. In contrast to natural bases, the novel artificial base pairs use halogen bonds that are enzymatically incorporated into DNA.
Read more: ➡️ uni.koeln/AP4XF
“One of the Greatest Challenges of Our Time”: Preventing Neurodegeneration | Technology Networks
www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience...
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🎙️ EUniCast is back with a brand-new series!
Freshly recorded by our School Ambassadors, this season explores student well-being, volunteering, digital detox & more.
Episode 1: Imposter Syndrome, find here: shorturl.at/ufOVC
Stay tuned for future episodes 💙
#EUniCast #EUniWell #StudentWellbeing
How Aging clock reveals molecules that protect against neurodegeneration healthmedicinet.com/aging-clock-...
🚀Our new preprint:🧠Neuronal 🧬DNA 🧬repair mediates systemic mitochondrial maintenance through acetylcholine signaling. Neuronal repair is sufficient for the overall health amid DNA damage! @cecad.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social @uniklinikkoeln.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
