“Super macrophages” against cancer 🧬
Prof. Michael Sieweke, Dr. Anke Fuchs, and Dr. Angela Jacobi are developing a new immune cell therapy targeting solid tumors. Backed by €2.5M from the EIC, StemPhage aims to bring this approach closer to clinical use 🔬
Read more ➡️ tud.link/vwwmxg
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New research group at the CRTD @tudresden.bsky.social !🎉🔬
Supported by the ERC Starting Grant, Dr. Anna Czarkwiani @aniaczark.bsky.social is launching a new group to study the sense of gravity and #regeneration in the inner ear in axolotl.
Read more ➡️ tud.link/buva24
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Congratulations to Prof. María Teresa Pisabarro, our expert in structure-based computational approaches! 🎉 She's part of a new @dfg.de consortium with @uni-saarland.de that investigates signaling in vascular inflammation. 🩸🔬
Read more ➡️ tud.link/tmga7z
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🌙 Over 2,200 visitors, 250+ volunteers, and one unforgettable Science Night at the CMCB,
@tudresden.bsky.social
!
Huge thanks to everyone who joined us – and to our amazing volunteers!
#LNDWDD #Dresden #CMCBnews
🥳 Congratulations to our postdoc, Dr. Anna Czarkwiani @aniaczark.bsky.social, on receiving the ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu!
With €2 million in funding, Anna will explore the biology of gravisensation and uncover insights into related disorders. 🧠
#CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social #ERCStG
🚀 Fresh science from the BIOTEC & @tudresden.bsky.social:
A collaboration between Alf Honigmann's lab and @nadlerlab.bsky.social at @mpi-cbg.de opens a new chapter in #imaging of #lipids.
🔗 Read more ➡️ tud.link/xz4e1f
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To divide or not to divide? 🧬
A new paper from Dr. Jörg Mansfeld (BIOTEC, @tudresden.bsky.social alumnus) reveals a chemical switch that controls the choice.
🔗 Read more ➡️ tud.link/9tmf6g
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Wrapping up the summer semester at Dresdner Seniorenakademie at the CRTD/ @cmcb-tud.bsky.social 🎓
Dr. Juliane Hammer @aderlab.bsky.social & Felix Wagner @mokalab.bsky.social shared insights into photoreceptor replacement therapies - a promising approach to tackle retinal degeneration. 👁️✨
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How important is #epigenetics for human brain?
Researchers led by @mareikealbert.bsky.social used brain organoids 🧠 🧫 and Epi-CyTOF to show that histone methylation controls how brain cells multiply and how big the organoid grows.
Read more ➡️ tud.link/4ywe3g
#neuroscience #CMCBnews
🌙 Over 2,200 visitors, 250+ volunteers, and one unforgettable Science Night at the CMCB, @tudresden.bsky.social!
Huge thanks to everyone who joined us – and to our amazing volunteers!
#LNDWDD #Dresden #CMCBnews
A research team led by Prof. María Teresa Pisabarro (BIOTEC/ @tudresden.bsky.social) and Dr. Jörg Mansfeld (ICR) developed small molecules that block cell cycle. The molecules show promise as leads for future cancer therapies.
Read more ➡️ tud.link/6c2qgu
#CancerResearch #DrugDiscovery #CMCBnews
🎉 What a week! The 5th NGS-CN Summer School organized by @dcgenomecenter.bsky.social and @ngscn-de.bsky.social brought 200+ researchers together to dive into Spatial Transcriptomics
Talks, hands-on training & insights into gene expression tech.
Read more ➡️ tud.link/1turh3
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🧠😴 How does the brain control sleep and waking?
New research with tiny C.elegans from Prof. Henrik Bringmann’s team at BIOTEC @tudresden.bsky.social shows a single brain signal acting like a switch! 🔁
Published in @currentbiology.bsky.social
Read more: tud.link/c17vz4
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🎉 Congratulations to our group leader, Dr. Franziska Knopf, for being appointed Professor of Biology of Bone Regeneration in Model Organisms at @tudresden.bsky.social! 🔬
Read more ➡️ tud.link/namv8n
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⁉️ How can cilia beat rhythmically?
The Diez Lab @stefandiezlab.bsky.social and @friedrich-group.bsky.social at @poldresden.bsky.social found a twisting motion during cilia beats that might play a key role in coordinating their tiny molecular motors! 🌀⚙️
Read more ➡️ tud.link/wr8ze9
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🧠 What makes the brain develop new connections?
Nature, nurture, or chance?
The Kempermann lab found that individual learning choices make a difference - even in genetically identical mice.📚 Those that learned more had more neurons & stronger connections. 🔬✨
Read more ➡️ tud.link/kuabjm
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🎉 Today is #WomenInScience Day!
We’re celebrating Dr. Ekaterina Vorobevskaia from @schlierflab.bsky.social 🔬 - she has just been awarded the 2024 Georg Helm Prize for her outstanding PhD dissertation! 👏🏆
💡 Curious about her research and career journey?
🔗 Read more: tud.link/6rkys7
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🚥 The Diez lab @stefandiezlab.bsky.social found that posttranslational modifications of tubulin regulate intraflagellar transport in cilia, helping to separate forward and reverse trains, preventing crashes and traffic jams!
Published @naturecomms.bsky.social
Read more ➡️ tud.link/v4khqh
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💧 Easing the Pressure: new publication in Developmental Cell by the Honigmann group.
The team found new role for tight junctions during organ development. Tight junctions relax the cytoskeleton to reduce tension between cells and let water inflate the tissue.
Read more ➡️ tud.link/nq6maq
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We have a new director! 🎉
Prof. Henrik Bringmann takes is the new director of BIOTEC! Prof. Alf Honigmann will serve as a deputy director.
We also thank the outgoing director, Prof. Alberti, for outstanding work leading BIOTEC for the last two years. 💐
Read more ➡️ tud.link/qtzeat
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🎉New grant for @apoetsch.bsky.social🎉
In collaboration with European partners, the Poetsch group will focus on molecular mechanisms behind #leukemia and use new insights for personalized treatment approaches.
Read more ➡️ tud.link/tf9y26
#CMCBnews #BIOTEC #TUDresden
Researchers from the Schlierf group @schlierflab.bsky.social at B CUBE, @tudresden.bsky.social have uncovered a weak spot in bacterial antibiotic resistance mechanism. Their research can help fight superbugs 🦠 and boost effectiveness of #antibiotics 💊
Read more tud.link/srhxsr
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