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This workshop, performed by the CryoEM Facility of the University of Freiburg with the support of the SFB 1381, will introduce the method CryoEM and the newly established facility.

For two days, the project leaders of the SFB 1381 gathered in Müllheim to discuss the progress of their projects and the overall status of the collaborative research center.

Projects Bo6 and Z01 from our SFB hosted the workshop “Cross-linking as a tool for analyzing protein machineries“

This workshop, organized by our B06 project in collaboration with Z01, will give an overview on the concept of chemical and site-directed cross-linking.

SFB 1381 PI Pitter Huesgen received funding for a new project (B13N) in our collaborative research centre.

Khaled Selim (project B12) has been awarded a DFG-funded Emmy Noether Fellowship.

In a joint study by SFB 1381 PIs Valerie Hilgers (B02) and Nora Vögtle (B04) the protein Pumilio was shown to preferably bind to long neuronal 3′ UTRs, which leads to specific localization of the mRNA and thereby spatial regulation of protein synthesis in neurons. Published in EMBO reports.

SGBM SFB 1381 student Hong Jiang (project B06) defended his PhD thesis successfully.

A tiny ferredoxin (Shetna protein II ) protects nitrogenase, the enzyme of biological nitrogen fixation, from being irreversebly damaged by exposure to oxygen. Study by SFB 1381 PI Oliver Einsle (A04), published in Nature.

The start of the autophagy process requires weak molecular interactions and can be artificially triggered. A study led by SFB 1381 PI Claudine Kraft (B10), and supported by SFB 1381 PIs Carola Hunte (A05) and Jens Timmer (AI01), published in Nature Cell Biology.

SFB 1381 Young Investigator Grants to Ipek Akol, Sukanya Guhathakurta and Viviane Timmermann.

SGBM SFB 1381 PhD student Laura Scheinost (project AI06) defended her thesis successfully.

SFB 1381 PI Claudine Kraft (B10) co-authored recent publication about the Women in Autophagy (WIA) network. Published in Nature Cell Biology.

Three doctoral students have been accepted into the Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine (SGBM) SFB 1381 track.

SFB 1381 PI Valérie Hilgers (Project B02) receives a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).

SFB 1381 student Christopher Eickhorst (project B10) defended his PhD thesis successfully.

A theoretical/practical workshop on imaging took place on Nov 26- organized by our Z03 project “Imaging Dynamics of Protein Machineries and Correlation with Cellular Topologies”