We are excited about two ‘new members’ that have joined our lab. The PromethION 2 Solo is a nanopore (ONP) sequencer which will perform DNA and RNA sequencing for us. And the InsightCell bioreactor will help us to keep cells alive and happy to perform in-cell NMR. This will enable us to study biomolecules in…
We are saying goodbye to Dr. Ting Huang, who worked on miR-based cancer drug design and congratulations on her recently defended her PhD thesis after working with us for five years! Goodbye also to our postdoc David, leaving the lab after evaluating microRNA targeting. Additionally, Eleni is moving on to a new position after working…
Big Congratulations to Dr. Huang who successfully defended her thesis “Design of miR-34a mimics shifting the targetome towards HNF4α” on November 29th with Prof. Kotaro Nakanishi from Ohio State University as her opponent. She systematically identifies mir-34a mutants which more efficiently regulate a subset of the original mir-34a targetome, reducing unwanted off-target effects
Congratulations to Katja and visiting Prof. Christina Thiele for your article in Angewandte Chemie on the interaction dynamics of an enantioselective peptide catalyzed acylation reaction!
We are happy to welcome Eleni to our lab as a new research assistant working on the ribosome project!
Congratulations Rubin and Walter for their publication in NAR studying the previously unseen arrangement of key nucleotides in the human Argonaute 2 miRNA-mRNA complex
Congrats Henry and Reiner for their article in JBNMR on optimising in-cell NMR for nucleic acids!
Dr. David Kosek has joined our lab as Postdoctoral Fellow coming from our collaborator Prof. Emma Andersson to continue to share his expertise on microRNA regulation with the lab!
Dr. Sweetapple successfully defended her thesis on 18th of June with her opponent Prof. Qi Zhang from the University of North Carolina! Huge congratulations for a great work, clear presentation and engaging discussion. Her thesis: “A biophysical symphony: the interplay of factors determining microRNA-34a activity” has helped towards deciphering the complicated structural influences on microRNA…
Visiting Professor Snorri Sigurdsson from the University of Iceland is now returning home after a great time with us. We want to thank him for his good humour, expertise, and contributions to our lab discussions – with an exciting collaboration which made significant steps during his stay. Furthermore, a big goodbye and thank you to…