Open Postdoc Position - Giant E3 ligases: mysterious mechanisms & non‑protein substrates. Interested? Join us to uncover how these molecular giants tag lipids, RNAs, sugars beyond proteins, on organelles and pathogens, to defend the cell. Details & Application here www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...

Very much looking forward presenting our research on ubiquitin motif containing chaperones and their role in proteostasis at the #Ubiquitin&Friends Symposium in Vienna.

📢Job alert📢 @uniheidelberg.bsky.social has an opening for a full W3-position on “Modeling of Biological Processes” 😀👍 Here is the call tinyurl.com/3w9e9dtf and application deadline is March 15. The group would be located at the beautiful #BioQuant center right in the middle of Neuenheimer Feld.

First time India for me. Fantastic meeting on organellar proteostasis. Met some familiär faces of the SPP Miostasis and plenty (new) proteostasis afficiados. Thanks @embo.org

Postdoc position available in my lab in Jena (Germany. jobs.leibniz-fli.de/jobposting/6... If you're interested in protein biochemistry of amyloid proteins and chaperones, this job may be for you. B2 Level German is required as the candidate will be involved in teaching in German.

Very much looking forward to host Simon Alberti (Vice speaker of the newly funded FOR5872) in Jena at the @leibnizfli.bsky.social on August 15th at 1 pm. Everyone is welcome to attend his talk.

Great work by the @schliekerlab.bsky.social 👏We're happy that we could contribute a bit.

Exciting news: DFG funds FOR5872 – Chaperone-mediated regulation of amyloids in condensates! Led by Prof. Janine Kirstein (FLI), researchers from Germany and Israel will explore how chaperones counteract disease-causing protein misfolding. Good luck to the team! #FLI #DFG #FOR5872 #Chaperones

I'm very excited to announce the funding of a new DFG research unit FOR 5872 "Chaperone-mediated regulation of the emergence of disease-causing amyloids inside biomolecular condensates" that I lead together with Simon Alberti. More information can be found here: www.leibniz-fli.de/news-events/...

Many thanks to the PhD students of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens (MPUSP) for the invitation to their summer retreat in Schwerin. Great science, nice scenery for the morning runs and its fantastic to reconnect with some old friends/colleagues/mentors.

Nothing better than getting a visit of a former PhD student (Manuel Iburg) who has finished his first postdoc in Houston and is now heading to Cambridge, UK with a Marie Curie Fellowship to start his second postdoc. It was great having you Manuel for a talk and a reunion celebration.

From June 23 to June 29, 2025, Freie Universität Berlin will be cutting out the letter e from its communication. Why? Because the university itself is facing cuts: around 37 million euros this year alone. Additional cuts are also planned for 2026 and 2027. (1/3)

Reunion with former MSc student Antonia Otte from @unibremen.bsky.social who is now a PhD student at the John Innes Center in Norwich, UK and invited ne to a PhD symposium.

Excited to expand the cooperation with Holger Bierhoff beyond the local running trails of Jena with the support of a Life Connect grant of @uni-jena.de to work on the role of rRNA activity in neurodegeneration.

Gain an overview on #proteostasis, attend #career development sessions and more at the EMBO | FEBS Lecture Course "Susan Lindquist School on Proteostasis" in Espoo, Finland, 16–19 September 2025. Deadline: 15 June 2025 meetings.embo.org/event/25-pro... #EMBOFEBSproteostasis #EMBOevents 🧪

I'm very much looking forward to host Alexander Gottschalk for a seminar of the FOR Syntophagy in Jena on June 3rd at 4 pm. The talk will be set up as hybrid even. Please contact me if you want the zoom link.

Very much enjoyed yesterday's Firmenlauf in Jena. Go Team @uni-jena.de and @microverse.bsky.social with @hellmichgroup.bsky.social Would be great to represent @leibnizfli.bsky.social next year

Amazing PI, cool science and Berlin - this is hard to beat!

Thank you @hawlelab.bsky.social and Harm Kampinga for organizing the GRC stress proteins meeting. Very much looking forward to it.

Sign up now for EMBO | FEBS Lecture Course "Susan Lindquist School on Proteostasis" in Espoo, Finland, 16 – 19 September 2025 Abstract submission & registration deadline: 15 June meetings.embo.org/event/25-pro... #EMBOFEBSproteostasis #EMBOevents🧪

It was great having Britta Eickholt and some of her lab members to discuss ongoing projects and future plans on actin, the wide spectrum of actin binding proteins and proteostasis in Jena at @leibnizfli.bsky.social

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Congratulations to Dr. Franziska Hirsch! Franziska mastered AD worms and microfluidic devices and defended today her PhD. PhD awardee number 9 from the Kirstein lab. Thank you Franziska for your hard work and all the best for your next career step!

I'm indeed very grateful to The European Regional Development Fund (EFRE) to fund the acquisition of two instruments for the comprehensive analysis how molecular chaperones remodel amyloid proteins such as Huntingtin.

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