🎉Congratulations Jannes! Another successful PhD defense last Thursday: "The hidden alphabet of RNA: Direct Nanopore sequencing and detection of RNA modifications" 🎓💪

New preprint from a collaboration with EMBL-EBI presenting computational protocols for automated ncRNA annotation of viral genomes 💻🧬👍

🎓💪Daria succesfully defended her dissertation and threw the flower wreath onto Hanfrieds sword last week - Congratulations!🥳 She studied the clinical applications of long and short read sequencing for methylation analysis and cancer detection 🧬⚕️

🎉Congratulations to our former doctoral researcher Marie for the successful defense of her dissertation about "Usable, scaleable and reproducible workflows for Next-Generation Sequencing Data"! 🎓💪

Join Our Team!🚀 🧠Junior Research Group Leader #MachineLearning Data Integration 🧬PhD #Bioinformatics 💻Research Software Engineer 📢Science Communication Coordinator 🎓Scient. Coordinator IRTG 🤝Scient. Coordinator CRC 🔗 www.rna.uni-jena.de/join-our-tea... #ScienceCareers #AcademicJobs #Virology

The first 'Play with Brain' men's matches started yesterday! 👉Further info: www.uni-jena.de/en/404118/wh... 📹Watch them (live) on Twitch! www.twitch.tv/europeangofe...

⚫⚪🧠📊8 international Go players (incl. Manja) will compete in Jena – while brain activity, heart rate & muscle tension are tracked in real time – exploring decision-making under pressure at the intersection of #neuroscience, #bioinformatics & #Go. 🎥 Live on Twitch! ↘️ www.eurogofed.org/index.html?i...

As usual, we've had a great time presenting our projects at the 7th Central German Meeting on #Bioinformatics - Mittelerde Meeting 2026 at @unihalle.bsky.social! 🧬⚕️🦠🌡️🔧🖥️ Thanks to the organizers and sponsors! #epigenomics #diagnostics #methylation #ncRNA #adaption #Sugar #DataEngineering #metadata

As part of the BMFTR-funded center CEPRE, we’ve released three new patient information videos, addressing key topics around unfulfilled desire to have children, chronic #endometritis, #ReproductiveResearch, women’s health, and #PatientParticipation 📽️👶⚕️🩸 🔗 www.uniklinikum-jena.de/cepre/Aktuel...

We will be at the Mittelerde Meeting (Central German Meeting on Bioinformatics) next week in Halle! mittelerde.informatik.uni-halle.de/mittelerde/p... 🎤Daria: Comput. framework for methylation-driven precision medicine 📄 P15 Tom: Sugar P17 MariaS: ncRNAs & microbial adaptation P70 Shahram: VirJenDB

We had an amazing four days at the #GfV Conference, sharing our projects, exchanging ideas, and meeting inspiring people along the way! 🎤📄🤝✨ Huge thanks to the organizers for a fantastic event in Heidelberg! 🙌

🤝 Meet us at #GfV2026 in Heidelberg! 🎤Talk 006 "Decoding influenza A virus genome organization using large-scale in silico RNA structure analysis"🗓️today 6:15 pm📍Session Virus evolution 📄Poster 284 “VirJenDB: the integrative virus metadata and analysis web platform”🗓️18 March 2:30 pm📍Poster exh. 3

Alex was excited to join the "3. Deutschsprachige Symposium der Infektiologie in Gynäkologie & Geburtshilfe" - a great opportunity to connect perspectives from basic science to clinical challenges in reproductive health. Many thanks to our CEPRE members Jana & Janine for the excellent organization!

👏Congratulations to our doctoral researcher Maria Schreiber for receiving the 2026 Jena RNA Club Young Researcher Award. She presented her project about the Sibling-Sponge Family Tree and #sRNA Evolution Analysis with #SweetSynteny at the RNA Club today🎤 www.leibniz-hki.de/en/jena-rna-...

🚀 New preprint: ViralClust - a Nextflow pipeline for bias-aware clustering of large virus genome datasets. 🧬🦠 Reduces dataset size by ≥95% while preserving diversity and enabling scalable downstream analyses.

🥳 New journal publication out! First full-genome alignment across all known #Pestivirus species (incl. CSFV, BVDV) 🧬💻 We identify conserved RNA elements & 29 novel #RNASecondaryStructures, expand the miR-17 landscape, and suggest a long-distance RNA interaction. 🔗 www.rnajournal.org/cgi/doi/10.1...

🛋️💡Learn more about the usage of #DNAmethylation for #CancerDiagnosis and the study by Daria and her co-authors in our new blog article! 🧬 🔎 🔗 www.rna.uni-jena.de/reading-dna-...

📢 Exciting new PhD position to explore and visualize phage genomic modules on our virus database portal virjendb.org 🦠💻🎈 👉If you know of a skilled bioinformatician who wants to work with an expert team of international phage researchers, please forward! ⏰15 Feb 2026 jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/c...

📣Excited to share our (first) VirJenDB publication! 🎁Check it out to see how your #virus database supports #metadata #biocuration and #bioinformatics integration. 🎶Stay tuned for collaboration opportunities in 2026, including a hackathon at #ViBioM2026! 📃 doi.org/10.1093/nar/... 💻 www.virjendb.org

🎉Congratulations to our group member Gabriel for the successful defense of his dissertation about "RNA-RNA interactions and their role in influenza A virus genome packaging"! 🎓💪

Alex presented on behalf of the Center for Early Pregnancy and Reproductive Health (CEPRE) team at the 2nd CERES meeting – a great opportunity to share ideas and strengthen collaborations!🤝 Thanks to the organizers and all CERES partners from Hamburg (SRHOO), Ulm (FePro-​Ulm), and Leipzig (LE-REP)!

Am Dienstag wird Manja eine der Keynotes beim "6. Nationalen Workshop METAGENOMICS" des DiaMETA-net (Dt. Netzwerk f. #Metagenomdiagnostik in der Infektionsmedizin) am @rki.de halten und zusammen mit Denise Kühnert und @martinhoelzer.bsky.social die Anwendungen von KI auf diesem Gebiet diskutieren💬

Meet Max, Tom and Manja at the MONID Workshop 2025 "Modelling diseases with the German Epidemic Microsimulation System (GEMS)“ today and tomorrow @unihalle.bsky.social! 📈⚕️The second funding period will start next summer 💪 monid.net/monid-gems-w...

📢 Join Us for the Next Viruses in Silico Lecture! 🎙️ SIRIUS and beyond: Turning tandem mass spectra into metabolite structure information 🗓️ 30 October 2025 🕑 4 PM CET 👨‍🔬 Sebastian Böcker (@uni-jena.de) 📍 Zoom - Register to receive the login details 👉 https://tinyurl.com/VirusesInSilico

Thanks for an inspiring and fruitful @nfdi4microbiota.bsky.social Annual Conference last week 💛 Our team of the #VirJenDB (Noriko, Sharam, Kilian) contributed with a poster💬 and a workshop with demo🤝 about this comprehensive virus sequence database 🦠 🧬 💻 #FAIRdata #metadata #viromics ➡️ virjendb.org

ℹ️ This Wednesday at #DGHM2025 in Jena, Noriko gave a workshop on "Navigating #microbiomes through the lens of NFDI4Microbiota Services"! 🦠💪 #VirJenDB Glad to have contributed to this year’s program - it was a great opportunity to share insights and exchange with the community!

Big thanks to @linsalrob.bsky.social for a great and inspiring lunch yesterday during his visit to Jena! 🥗🥘🤝 Great conversation, fresh perspectives, and some ideas to take forward. 🧬🖥️🦘 #research #collaboration #bioinformatics

Daria, Maria, Tom, and Kilian had a great time at the #GCB2025 in Düsseldorf this week, gaining many valuable insights to follow up 💪 and enjoying fruitful discussions about their posters #MethylationBiomarkers #SugarTool #microsynteny #VirJenDB 🧬🔧🦠 👏

👏Alex reported about our work in the Center for Early Pregnancy and Reproductive Health (CEPRE) at the @leibnizfli.bsky.social Seminar on Tuesday - "RNA sequencing and metagenomics for the analysis of patient-derived materials" 🧬 🩺 👉 www.uniklinikum-jena.de/cepre/en/SP+...

📢 Tomorrow, Manja will speak at the LOEWE Research Cluster CoroPan Symposium about "Full #RNA viral #GenomeAlignments with conserved RNA #SecondaryStructure annotations", excited to discuss latest coronavirus research (besides SARS-CoV-2) and to meet good friends again! 🔗 eveeno.com/internationa...

📢 Part of our group will go to @gcb-bioinformatics.bsky.social next week! Join us at our posters to learn & discuss about: 🧬methylation biomarker detection in cancer research (P032) 🔧the tool sugar (P036) and it's application for identifying micro #synteny (P073) 🦠our virus database #VirJenDB (P109)

🧾 Great paper by our doctoral researcher Maria and her collaboration partners from Belgium 🇧🇪 on the identification and functional genomic analyses of #Bartonella isolates from honey bees, and reassessment of the #taxonomy of the genus Bartonella 🐝 ➡️ doi.org/10.1016/j.sy...

🥳New publication by Manja and coauthors: #Go game capture and reconstruction of missing moves using #DeepLearning techniques 🔗 doi.org/10.1109/CoG6...

Our group #retreat was full of discussions, collaboration, inspiration, and laughter (plus plenty of snacks and board games) 👩‍💻🗣️👏🍪🎲 A great 4 days with the team! #sciencelife #teamwork #bioinformatics

The summer semester is coming to an end and students are completing their final projects for the #Python lecture. Jan developed a smart energy management system to make optimal use of the energy generated by your solar cells 📉🌞🏡 #smarthome ➡️ janvogt06.github.io/SolarFlow-Sm...

Another busy bee 🐝 from the Marz group: Nori presented the #VirJenDB at #CORDi 2025 (Conference on Research Data Infrastructure) last week in Aachen! 👏🖥️ 🔗 virjendb.org

Maria had a great time at the Microbes & RNA 2025 Meeting in #Strasbourg where she presented her #poster about #SweetSynteny, a #nextflow pipeline for nonambiguous identification of #ncRNA paralogues 👏🦠🧬📊 #MicrobialRNAs #conference

Learn more about #SweetSynteny, a #nextflow pipeline for nonambiguous identification of #ncRNA paralogues – Visit #poster WE-41 of our doctoral researcher Maria at the Microbes & RNA 2025 Meeting in #Strasbourg tomorrow! #MicrobialRNAs #conference 🦠🧬🇫🇷 microbialrnameeting.com/program/

🪢Viren falten ihre #RNA-Genome! Wir haben alle #Pestivirus Genome untersucht und 32 gefaltete Strukturen entdeckt - Das könnte neue Wege eröffnen, Infektionen bei 🐖🐄🦇🐪🐭🐑🦒 zu bekämpfen. ➡️ Ganze Story im Blog: www.rna.uni-jena.de/unveiling-th...

🎉Congratulations to our group member Alexander Eberhardt for the successful defense of his dissertation and throwing the flower wreath onto Hanfrieds sword🎓💪 He studied gene regulation mechanisms in cancer cells in the Bierhoff group at @leibnizfli.bsky.social and gave great insights into his work🧬⚕️

📢 Fresh paper alert! 🧊 Tom wrote a Python framework called sugar, which aims to facilitate rapid application development in bioinformatics. 📖 Check it out here: joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21... #python #bioinformatics

We had the pleasure of hosting Anne Pohlmann from the Lab for Biocuration of the FLI last week. She shared insights from huge (open) surveillance datasets of influenza virus outbreaks. One being that these are very hard to predict! Thank you Anne! #research #avianflu #virus #surveillance

Big thanks to our guest visitor Prof Horacio Guzman, head of the Biophysics & Intelligent Matter Lab at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. Great to meet you last week and hear about the work happening in your lab! #rnaproteininteractions #rna3dstructure #virus #capsids @gocompmodeling.bsky.social

🐝🐝🐝 Congrats to Maria, Manja, Jelle and co-authors on your new publication! Throrough phylogenetic analysis and classification of a Bee bacterial pathogen group, Bartonella, led to a proposal for taxonomic reclassification! Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out our recently published paper about identifying RNA modifications from raw Nanopore data: www.nature.com/articles/s42... Congrats to Jannes, Manja and all the co-authors!

Congrats to our #PhD student Sandra! She shared her discovery of conserved #RNA #secondarystructure features in the #Pestivirus family using a full genome alignment method at the #GfV2025 with an informative #poster

☀️ Greetings from #Hamburg! Smiles from our #NFDI4Microbiota virus database team's booth at the #GfV2025. Curious? ✅️ Check out the beta version of the #database for and by #virus researchers at virjendb.org!

Hi everyone! We have recently moved here similarly to @uni-jena.de and look forward to sharing the scientific and fun news from our RNA Bioinformatics lab! More at: rna.uni-jena.de