Make sure to nominate or apply for the #YoungScientistAward of @gdchbiochem.bsky.social. Deadline: August 31st CC: @gdch.de

The #YoungScientistAward of the @gdch.de Division of Biochemistry is open for applications and nominations! If you are or have supervised a PhD with an outstanding publication or PhD thesis, make sure to check out the award! en.gdch.de/network-s... #YoungScientistAward#ChemSky #ChemBio #Biochemistry

A great opportunity to nominate or apply for a prestigious award for #PhD theses and publications in the field of #Biochemistry! #ChemSky #ChemBio

📢 Call for #Biochemistry excellence! The @gdch.de Division of Biochemistry is seeking candidates for the #YoungScientistAward. We recognize outstanding PhD theses and publications. ✅ Self-nominations & PI nominations welcome ⏳ Deadline: Aug 31 🔗 en.gdch.de/network-s... #Biochemistry#YoungScientistAward.#ChemBio #ChemSky

The #YoungScientistAward of the @gdch.de Division of Biochemistry is open for applications and nominations! If you are or have supervised a PhD with an outstanding publication or PhD thesis, make sure to check out the award! en.gdch.de/network-s... #YoungScientistAward#ChemSky #ChemBio #Biochemistry

A great opportunity to nominate PhD candidates for the #YoungScientistAward of @gdchbiochem.bsky.social! Self-nominations are also possible! #Academia #Biochemistry #ChemBio #ChemSky #Award #Nominate CC: @gdch.de, @gfg-chembio.bsky.social, @gbmev.bsky.social

The #YoungScientistAward of the @gdch.de Division of Biochemistry is now open for applications and nominations! If you are or have supervised a PhD with an outstanding publication or PhD thesis, make sure to check out the award! en.gdch.de/network-s... #YoungScientistAward#ChemSky #ChemBio #Biochemistry

Join us as member of the Division of Biochemistry of the @gdch.de! - A vibrant network of biochemists - Connection with international experts - Reduced fees for division conferences - Support of junior scientists via travel grants and prizes en.gdch.de/network-stru... #Biochemistry #ChemBio #ChemSky

Congratulations to our alumna Sarah Emmert, who received one of the GDCh Biochemistry Yound Scientist Awards! Here some of Sarah's work during her PhD at EPFL and @chem.uzh.ch: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

She gave an amazing award lecture on "Enzymes made of DNA and RNA", with a laudatio by Andrea Rentmeister (@rentmeisterlab.bsky.social). @gdchbiochem.bsky.social @gdchbiochem.bsky.social h.de #Biochemistry #Chemistry #ChemBio #RNA #DNA #Structure

Warmest congratulations to Claudia Höbartner on being awarded the Albrecht-Kossel-Preis! Claudia is honored for the first structure of a DNAzyme and for the development of ribozymes with methyl transferase activity.

Thank you so much, Claudia (@chlab.bsky.social) and Kathrin (@klanglab.bsky.social), for organizing this excellent event #Biochemistry2026 in Würzburg, and for having me!

Congratulations to all poster award winners of #Biochemistry2026!

Thank you so much, @chlab.bsky.social and @klanglab.bsky.social, for putting together a truly excellent event!

#Biochemistry2026 comes to an end! We especially want to thank our organizers, Claudia Höbartner (@chlab.bsky.social) and Kathrin Lang (@klanglab.bsky.social), for an amazing job and all participants for making this a great conference. (1/2) #Biochemistry #Chemistry #ChemBio CC: @gdch.de

Congratulations to the winners of the poster awards at #Biochemistry2026: Felix Veitl Stefan Jungwirth Evgeniia Dorinova We thank the Royal Society of Chemistry and Wiley for sponsoring the poster prizes! The poster awards were awarded for these posters: (1/4) #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio

In the final talk of #Biochemistry2026, Stefan Raunser (@raunser-lab.bsky.social) gave an exciting overview of his group's research on "Unlocking the secrets of the cytoskeleton and heart muscle". www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio #Structure #cryoEM

How are the receptors in the synapse organized? Diego Ortiz-López from the Hermann Schindelin group discussed his research at #Biochemistry2026. He talked about the organization of receptors in the inhibitory postsynapse by organization of gephyrin oligomers. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How do our muscles work on a molecular scale? Stefan Raunser (@raunser-lab.bsky.social) gave an inspiring lecture at #Biochemistry2026 on his group's work, in which they elucidate this question with a combination of biochemistry and structural biology. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

"Cryo-EM Structures of Higher-Order Gephyrin Oligomers Revealing Principles of Inhibitory Postsynaptic Scaffold Organization" Diego Ortiz-López from the group of Hermann Schindelin (@en-hxnu-enment.bsky.social) gave an great talk on this topic at #Biochemistry2026. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Julia Bartoli gave an insightful talk at #Biochemistry2026 about the topic "A host tRNA Drives Assembly of a Cytoplasmic Viral Transcription Machine". www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Biochemistry #cryoEM #ChemSky #ChemBio #tRNA #RNA #Virus @gdch.de

"Dynamics of A-Minor Interactions in the Bacterial Ribosome" Christian Steinmetzger (@stonebutcher.bsky.social) talked at #Biochemistry2026 about his work on this topic in the group of @katjapetzold.bsky.social. #Biochemistry #Ribosome #ChemSky #ChemBio #NMR CC: @gdch.de

Installation of tRNA modifications is key to protein synthesis. In her presentation at #Biochemistry2026, Carine Tisné presented her group's in depth work on structural and functional studies to understand the underlying processes on the example of m1A. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Carine Tisné gave an insightful talk at #Biochemistry2026. She talked about "Advances in the structural and functional understanding of m1A tRNA modification". pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #Biochemistry #RNA #tRNA #ChemSky #Biochemistry #Methylation CC: @gdch.de

How can we study the function of nucleotide-based #SecondMessengers? @oliveiramann.bsky.social presented her group's exciting findings in this field at #Biochemistry2026. She e.g. presented the #cryoEM structure of OAS2, which has key #antiviral functions. linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...

"Nucleotidyltransferases and nucleotide-based second messengers" Carina Baer de Oliveira Mann (@oliveiramann.bsky.social) gave an insightful talk on this topic at #Biochemistry2026. febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #Biochemistry #SecondMessenger #CyclicNucleotide CC: @gdch.de

Great talk by Kathrin Leppek (@katleppek.bsky.social) at #Biochemistry2026. She talked about her work on the topic "Synthetic circRNAs employ IRES activity for translation in cells and in cell-free translation systems". link.springer.com/article/10.1... #ChemSky #Biochemistry #ChemBio #RNA #IRES

How can #epigenetic modifications of #DNA be studied to better understand #biology? In her talk at #Biochemistry2026, @sabschn.bsky.social talked about her group's exciting work on developing new TET3 enzymes that improve epigenetic sequencing. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #ChemSky #Biochemistry

Interesting talk by Sabine Schneider (@sabschn.bsky.social) at #Biochemistry2026. She talked about her group's work on "Novel TET3 enzymes for next-generation epigenetic sequencing". pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #Epigenetics #Biochemistry #ChemBio #ChemSky #Sequencing #TET CC: @gdch.de

How can #extremophilic #archaea make proteins in almost boiling water? At #Biochemistry2026, Schraga Schwartz gave a lecture about the many interesting #RNA modifications these organisms are using and how they can be studied. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio

The third day of #Biochemistry2026 is off to a great start with an inspiring lecture by Schraga Schwartz. He talked about "RNA at the Edge: Extreme Biology as a Lens on RNA Modification Principles". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio #RNA #extremophiles #Archaea

Congratulations to Claudia Höbartner (@chlab.bsky.social) on being awarded the prestigious Albrecht-Kossel-Preis of the @gdch.de at #Biochemistry2026. A very well deserved honor. Claudia gave an amazing award lecture on "Enzymes made of DNA and RNA". #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio #RNA #DNA

Congratulations to Claudia Höbartner (@chlab.bsky.social) on being awarded the very prestigious Albrecht-Kossel-Preis by the @gdch.de at #Biochemistry2026! Prof. Höbartner receives this award for the first structure of a DNAzyme and the development of methyl transferase ribozymes. (1/2)

We are excited that we could today award four Young Scientist Awards for outstanding publications and dissertations over the last two years. The awardees are Johannes Morstein, Sarah Emmert, Frederik Schmidt and Lukas Zeisel. Congratulations to all awardees! (1/3) #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio

How can the concentration of glutathione be monitored with subcellular precision? Congratulations to Sarah Emmert on receiving one of the @gdchbiochem.bsky.social Young Scientist Awards for her work in the lab of @locbp.bsky.social on addressing this question. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

GTPases have long been considered key examples of undruggable proteins. Congratulations to @morstein.bsky.social on winning one of the @gdchbiochem.bsky.social Young Scientist Awards for his work on identifying druggable pockets in several GTPases beyond K-Ras. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Can CO2 be fixed into useful feedstock chemicals by enzymes? Congratulations to Frederik Schmidt on being award one of the @gdchbiochem.bsky.social Young Scientist Awards for his work on the characterization of an iron nitrogenase with potential for this application. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Understanding the thioredoxin system is key to understanding cellular RedOx homeostasis. Congratulations to @lzeisel.bsky.social on being awarded one of the @gdchbiochem.bsky.social Young Scientist Awards for his work in the @thornsesholdlab.bsky.social in this field. pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Can the functions of #metalloenzymes be further improved using non-canonical amino acids? In her talk at #Biochemistry2026, Alexandra Deliz Liang talked about the usage of genetic code expansion in order to improve the activity of metalloenzymes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #ChemSky #ChemBio

Alexandra Deliz Liang gave an exciting talk at #Biochemistry2026. She talked about her group's research on "Metalloenzyme engineering with genetic code expansion". www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio #ProteinEngineering #Metalloenzyme CC: @gdch.de

Max Heckelmann from the group of Don Hilvert presented his research at #Biochemistry2026. He talked about the "Generation and Evolution of de novo Designed Chorismate Mutases". #ProteinDesign #Evolution #Biochemistry #ChemBio #ChemSky

Can proteins with a certain function be designed from scratch? Interesting talk by Birte Höcker at #Biochemistry2026. She talked about her group's research on "Design for function - building enzymes from scratch". www.nature.com/articles/s41... #ProteinDesign #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio #AI

Xinlai Cheng gave an interesting talk at #Biochemistry2026. He talked about his group's research into "Targeting the Spliceosomal Protein USP39 Through Allosteric Ligands and PROTAC-Induced Degradation". onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #Splicing #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio

Insightful talk by Clemens Richert at #Biochemistry2026. He talked about his group’s work on optimized #antivirals. He gave exciting insights into the optimization of prodrugs of nucleotides #ProTides. #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio #Virus #DrugDiscovery

STAT4 is an important target in autoimmune disease research. In this talk at #Biochemistry2026, Thorsten Berg talked about the discovery of potent inhibitors of STAT4. He gave insights into prodrugs for phosphates and phosphonates. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ChemSky #DrugDiscovery

Insightful lecture by Thorsten Berg at #Biochemistry2026. He talked about his group's work on "Biaryl Phosphates and Phosphonates as Selective Inhibitors of the Transcription Factor STAT4". onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ChemSky #Biochemistry #ChemBio #DrugDiscovery

Interesting talk by Clemens Richert at #Biochemistry2026. He talked about "Nucleoside Phosporamidates with Roles in Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry". #Virus #RNA #Nucleotides #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio #MedChem #MedicinalChemistry CC: @gdch.de

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Insightful presentation by Pierre Stallforth at #Biochemistry2026. He talked about their hunt for new natural products from unusual sources including those produced during amoebal predation of bacteria and those identified in ancient samples. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Interesting talk by Pierre Stallforth at #Biochemistry2026. "Natural Products from Interacting Microorganisms and Ancient Microbiomes". pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #NaturalProducts #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio