Happy to announce our RTG 2355 International Conference “Regulatory landscapes of RNA: From code to control”, Sept 14-16, 2026 in Giessen, Germany. Topics cover #RNA as messenger, recruiting platform, sponge, regulator & sensor. 👉tinyurl.com/rtg2355conf Save the date – registration opens May 1!

#jlugiessen zeichnet erstmals drei Forschungslabore mit #LEAF-Zertifikat für nachhaltige Laborpraxis aus. Prämiert wurden drei Arbeitsgruppen in #OrganischeChemie und #AnorganischeundAnalytischeChemie. Glückwunsch! #nachhaltigkeit #LEAF www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns... Foto: Katrina Friese

Looking to do a postdoc? Explore this fantastic opportunity to do a postdoc at a Max Planck institute. Applications for this program are due by October 13, 2025. hashtag#maxplancksociety hashtag#postdoc www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...

🚨 Please share! We are seeking motivated PhD students who wish to work at the intersection of molecular life sciences and computational sciences. #IMPRS #IMPRSBAC @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @maxplanck.de Check out our projects and apply by Jan 7th, 2026! www.molgen.mpg.de/IMPRSPhDproj...

@rtg2355.bsky.social PhD candidate Fabienne Becker from the Friedhoff lab recently presented her work on nucleic acid double strand unwinding by Sub2 & UAP56 DEAD-box helicases at the 2025 GGL conference @jlugiessen.bsky.social - the corresponding manuscript is close to resubmission! 😉

Very timely review for those of you who have been following all of the recent developments in this area... also @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social why can't we share via bsky directly from the article???

I did a thing. I wrote a textbook about #RNA. I wrote it so that those without formal science training could understand what RNA is and how it is used in medicine. It releases in the US and Europe on September 8th. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

#Forschungsdesign bedeutet u. a. den aktuellen Forschungsstand zu berücksichtigen, vorhandene Forschungsleistungen einzubeziehen und unbewusste Verzerrungen zu vermeiden. Leitlinie 9 der #GWP erläutert diese Grundsätze im Detail: https://www.wissenschaftliche-integritaet.de/kodex/forschungsdesign/

My PhD student @leonielorenz.bsky.social (with Eva Geissen) has made this nice (free) online course to introduce mathematical modelling for biology: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl... Including both molecular and epidemiological examples

New paper out by RTG2355 members Jennifer Kothe, Theresa Dietz, Robina Scheuer & Elena Evguenieva-Hackenberg, identifying a new attenuation mechanism that apparently monitors ribosome availability and translation efficiency in the soil bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti

Postdoc positions in structural biology of RNA processing complexes. An ERC-funded position will dissect pre-mRNA processing pathways in the infective organism Trypanosoma brucei. An ANR-funded position will characterise large complexes in RNA modification. Details: tinyurl.com/postdoc-RNA-...

And here goes another one - @rtg2355.bsky.social-member Fabienne Becker from the Friedhoff lab presented her research at the 2025 Helicase Conference in Lisbon today: "The Conserved C-terminal Domain of Tho1 Stimulates the DEAD-box Helicase Sub2" - more coming soon #proudCoordinator 😉

Proudly presenting one of our associated PhD candidates @rtg2355.bsky.social - go Palina!

✨ Deadline extended! There’s still time to apply: September Science Academy - international summer school for women in the molecular life sciences. Deadline: July 14, 📍 Marburg, Germany www.mpi-marburg.mpg.de/1489492/Sept... #WomenInSTEM #SummerSchool

Back from another great retreat to Schmitten, Taunus - this year with guests from @4r-rtg.bsky.social and from @jlugiessen.bsky.social and @mpi-hlr.bsky.social core facilities. We had inspiring method sessions on scientific diagrams & statistics, complexome proteomics, microscopy & image analysis ..

🚨 We’re hiring ! 🚨 Join our cutting-edge research team as a molecular biologist at @nanoporetech.com HQ in Oxford. Perfect for a fresh PhD or MSc with a couple of years’ experience. Work at the interface of chemistry, molecular/synthetic biology and AI 👉 ejnh.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Choosing the Best Journal for Your Paper - An upcoming webinar from Nature Masterclasses: masterclasses.nature.com/courses-comi...

RTG PIs Katharina Höfer and Katja Sträßer presented recent research from their labs at the RNA Society Conference in San Diego.

Latest from the Nature Careers Podcast 🔊 Salary negotiations: a guide for scientists www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A great overview of methods to investigate RNA modifications 😊 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Wow! This is an exciting and important action!

Plüsch-Patienten willkommen: #Teddyklinik Gießen öffnet ihre Tore. Kinder dürfen vom 3. bis 6. Juni 2025 ihre Stofftiere und Puppen von Medizinstudierenden verarzten lassen www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

I received one of the 232 NIH grant "terminations" sent to scientists at Columbia last night. My research focuses on improving maternal and child health in the US. Also affected: ongoing clinical trials, research training programs, and research centers that aim to improve the health of Americans.

🎉 > 2000 Zeichnungen! www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/s4f/de/top/o...

Another Dr. from our RTG - Ebru Aydin from @kilchertlab.bsky.social successfully defended her thesis yesterday. Congratulations, Ebru! 🎓And a great party, too 🥳🍾🥂

Open PhD position in our RTG2355 - great diversity in topics, invited speakers, retreats and symposia, workshops, soft skill courses - and very nice people!

Excited to share the work of Jennifer Kothe et al suggesting a mechanism to be used by bacteria for fine-tuning gene expression according to ribosome availability and translation efficiency: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congratulations to RTG2355-member Jennifer Kothe from Elena Evguenieva-Hackenberg's lab for successfully defending her dissertation - well done, Jenni! 🎓🥳 (And please note the DNA, RNAP, RNA and ribosome on the cake!)

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Stellenausschreibungn in Heidelberg: Akademische Rätin/ Akademischen Rat (w/m/d) im Beamtenverhältnis auf Zeit. Am Biochemie-Zentrum der Universität Heidelberg ist zum 01.09.2025 im Bereich Lehre eine Stelle in Vollzeit zu besetzen (Bes. Gr. A13) adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...

‘Wrecking ball’: RFK Jr. moves to fire thousands of health agency employees | Science | AAAS brought to you by @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Today, along with 2,000 other NIH employees, I had to clear out my office 😭 It was truly the honor of my life to work with such incredibly passionate people focused on improving human health. I’ve never experienced a more positive culture where *everyone* cared about their job and serving others.

We are very excited to announce the release of Galaxy 24.2 with several improvements to make to improve your workflow experience and boost productivity. Over the next few weeks, I'll post more details about some of these. Here are a few highlights: (1/4)

🚀🧬 @www.helmholtz.de is seeking new group leaders for the Helmholtz Investigator Groups Program, including at the Helmholtz Institute Würzburg. If you're ready to take the next step in your scientific career & lead your own research group, apply by February 15: www.helmholtz-hiri.de/en/jobs-tale...

Postdoc positions on nuclear RNA biology available in the Heick Jensen lab. Come join us in tiny Denmark. Interested? - then follow this link: mbg.au.dk/aktuelt/ledi...

Many women, one mission: LOEWE top research from Hesse. February 11: Women & Girls in Science Day. @tuda.bsky.social @jlugiessen.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social @unikassel.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social @thm.de @synmikro.bsky.social @ciesek.bsky.social @susanneherold.bsky.social @sgn.one