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! 🤗
🚨 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/...
🚨 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!
🚨 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!
📢 Check out this new publication by the lab of our #CRC1678 group leader Niels Gehring!!! Congratulations 🎉
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...
🚨 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!
🚨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🧬
Big thank you to all those female researchers from #CRC1678 sharing their thoughts in this series! 🙏
#WomenInScience
#GirlsInSTEM
To celebrate today’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we are spotlighting inspiring young female researchers from our #CRC1678, sharing their stories, motivations, and hopes to encourage the next generation to pursue science. 🧪🔬👩🔬 #WomenInScience #GirlsInSTEM
🚨 Publication alert 🚨
A new statistical approach for pattern recognition in multivariate spatial transcriptomics data published in Bioinformatics. Congratulations to our #CRC1678 members from the @compbiogroup.bsky.social, and everyone else involved🎉
🔗https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btag052
🚨 Publication alert 🚨
Check out this brand new review article about Proteostasis of organelles in aging and disease in @febsj.bsky.social. Congratulations to our #CRC1678 members @thevilchezlab.bsky.social and Yara Nabawi and everyone else involved🎉
🚨Publication Alert🚨
New work from our #CRC1678 members @bjornschumacher.bsky.social and @meyerdh.bsky.social reveals why some neurons age faster. Using neuron‑specific aging clocks, they identified vulnerable neurons and highlight syringic acid and vanoxerine as promising neuroprotective hits.🧬
🚀Great news from #CRC1678:
Our postdoc @nishahemandhar.bsky.social receives the @dfg.de Walter Benjamin Fellowship! This award highlights her outstanding research, opens exciting new opportunities, and is an important milestone that will support her independent scientific career. Congratulations! 🥳
🚨 New @cp-cell.bsky.social paper with #CRC1678 member Domenico Di Fraia form @beyerlab.bsky.social ! 🚨
In this study published in Cell, a brain‑cell lysosome atlas reveals SLC45A1 as a neuron‑specific transporter linked to LSDs. Congratulations! 🎉
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.12.012
🚨Hot off the press from #CRC1678 's @ignatovalab.bsky.social 🚨
A brand‑new paper published in @narjournal.bsky.social introduces ADAM‑tRNA‑seq, a powerful framework that finally brings accuracy and scalability to Nanopore‑based direct tRNA sequencing. Congratulations! 🥳
🚨 Speaker Alert! 🚨
We’re thrilled to welcome Duygu Ucar for an upcoming joint #CRC1678 / #CECAD Seminar about “Heterogeneity in Human Immune Aging and Vaccine Responses”.
📅 February 4
📍 CECAD Lecture Hall
⏰ 2:30 PM
Join us for fresh insights into the complexity of human immune aging!
Curious about the role our genetic traits 🧬 and our lifestyle 🏄♀️ play in healthy ageing?
In the latest episode of the Bild der Wissenschaft podcast, our #CRC1678 project leader @bjornschumacher.bsky.social explains the science behind longevity!
🎙️Listen here: www.wissenschaft.de/gesundheit-m...
Our #CRC1678 PhD researchers are offering a genetics workshop at the KölnerKinderUni starting Feb 23 at @unicologne.bsky.social.
“The Secret of Blue Eyes – How Does Inheritance Work?” lets kids explore how traits are passed on.
🔗Info: uni.koeln/QHQ95
📝 Register until Jan 11: uni.koeln/NJJCY
🚨Check out this new paper by our #CRC1678 Project Leader @akispapantonis.bsky.social, published in @natcellbio.nature.com, which uncovers how dynamic genome organization shapes cellular responses. Congratulations! 🥳
🎙️ Check out this interview with our #CRC1678 project leader @bjornschumacher.bsky.social where he talks about the profound biological mechanisms behind aging, the ethical boundaries of life extension, and meaningful strategies for staying healthy longer.
Congrats to our #crc1678 member Akis @akispapantonis.bsky.social for this very nice Christmas gift🎄
New study by our #CRC1678 members @bjornschumacher.bsky.social, @meyerdh.bsky.social and Walter Sandt showing that C. elegans dauer stage decelerates aging and even reverses biological age upon exit, revealing natural gene patterns of rejuvenation. Congratulations! 🎉
#AgingResearch #Longevity
Three #CRC1678 PhD students joined Lena Breuer’s ImproKoeln workshop 🎤 last week, learning improvisation, camera presence & interview skills. They’re now ready to spotlight diverse scientific journeys in our upcoming #DiversityInScience video campaign!
🚀 New on the #CRC1678 Website! 🌐
Explore Job Opportunities + Fellowships:
- Postdoc Position🔬
- Medical Research Fellowship (6 months)👩⚕️
- PhD Orientation Fellowship(4 months)🎓
📅 Open year-round, no deadline, open to all!
👉 crc1678.uni-koeln.de/job-opportun...
🚨 Postdoc Opportunity within the #CRC1678 - @riemerlab.bsky.social
🔬 Study redox regulation & proteome plasticity via translation initiation
📅 Start: March 2026 (or later)
💼 100% E13 funded
👉 Apply now to explore molecular mechanisms in mammalian cells: crc1678.uni-koeln.de/job-opportun...
👩🔬🧪 As part of the "Eltern als Experten" day at Humboldt-Gymnasium Köln, 11th graders visited @cecad.bsky.social to explore ageing research, tour a #CRC1678 lab, and discover our Imaging & Proteomics Facilities.
Science meets curiosity—thanks for visiting!
#CECAD #CRC1678 #ScienceOutreach #STEM
Congratulations from #CRC1678 on this fantastic work!🥳
💪🥳Congratulations also from #CRC1678 to this excellent work spearheaded by Qiaochu Li (@qiaochuli.bsky.social) from the Hoppe lab and to the group of Jan Riemer @riemerlab.bsky.social. 🧬
🚨Speaker Alert 🚨
We’re excited to welcome @landthalerm.bsky.social for the upcoming #CRC1678 Seminar!
🧬 He’ll dive into: "Posttranscriptional Regulation in Cellular Time and Space"
📅 November 25
📍 Auditorium, MPI-Age
⏰ 2:00 PM
Explore how RNA dynamics shape cellular behavior across time and space!
