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- Reposted by Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich🏛️ 200 Years of LMU in Munich 🎓 Founded in 1472, relocated from Landshut to Munich in 1826 — today LMU celebrates 200 years in Munich and inaugurates Prof. Dr. Matthias H. Tschöp as President.
- 🥳And here’s the next publication from the Bohlen Lab — congratulations!👏
- New paper in the Journal of Human Immunity! We report complete and partial forms of X-linked MCTS1 deficiency in patients with mycobacterial disease -- four new families from Iran, Oman, China, and the USA. doi.org/10.70962/jhi...
- 🌟Don' t miss this article about personalized cancer therapy featuring our PI, Marion Subklewe www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu... @msubklewe.bsky.social
- Congratulations to the whole team on this great publication!👏🥂🥳
- 🥳 We are excited to share the first publication from the Bohlen Lab! "Somatic deficiency of the human E3 ubiquitin ligase CBL in leukocytes impairs B but not T cell development and function" www.nature.com/articles/s41... together with the Tangye Lab and @bloodgenes.bsky.social and many more! 1/n
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- 🥳🥂Huge congratulations to Jonathan Bohlen on being awarded an Emmy Noether Grant by @dfg.de 😊🤩 His project addresses a central open question in immunology: how mRNA translation governs the function of T cells. www.genzentrum.uni-muenchen.de/news-events/... @jonathanbohlen.bsky.social
- 📣Publication alert! The Stigler lab deciphers why T7 RNA polymerase experiences premature stalls during RNA synthesis and identifies two distinct pausing mechanisms.👏👍 | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- 🤩What a year! Two of our PIs have already secured ERC grants — and today comes the third: Lucas Jae has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant! Congratulations!🥂🎆 @jaelab.bsky.social @lmumuenchen.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu www.genzentrum.uni-muenchen.de/news-events/... www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
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- 📣Publication alert! Collaboration between Bartholomew lab and @hopfnerlab.bsky.social shows that INO80 positions nucleosomes at specific genomic sites by sensing intranucleosomal DNA shape and stalling at rigid DNA via its Arp5 subunit. authors.elsevier.com/c/1m9kd3vVUP... @mdanderson.bsky.social
- 📣Publication alert! A team led by Roland Beckmann shows: Ribosome collisions activate the kinase ZAK and thus trigger the ribotoxic stress response — a key mechanism of the cellular stress defense. More about it here👇 www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
- 🧐Curious about what has happened at the Gene Center over the past 5 years? Take a look at our hot-off-the-press report.🤩 www.genzentrum.uni-muenchen.de/institute/ab...
- 🥳 Veit Hornung, Marion Subklewe and Christoph Klein are again among the most influential researchers. Congratulations! 🤩 @v-hornung.bsky.social @msubklewe.bsky.social @lmumuenchen.bsky.social
- 😀More details on the ERC Synergy Grant winners @lmumuenchen.bsky.social 👇 youtu.be/xAnePmLGjEA
- 🥳 Huge congratulations to Roland Beckmann and his team on being awarded an ERC Synergy Grant! We are very proud of you! 👏🏻 🥂 @beckmannlab.bsky.social
- 🥳 Huge congratulations to Roland Beckmann and his team on being awarded an ERC Synergy Grant! We are very proud of you! 👏🏻 🥂 @beckmannlab.bsky.social
- 📣Join us for a guest seminar by Atlanta Cook from the University of Edinburgh 🕐TODAY at 13:00 ▶️Lynen Lecture Hall. Title: “Seeing Double: Integrative structural approaches to unravel nuclear dsRNA recognition by the NF45-NF90 complex.” We're looking forward to seeing you🤗 @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
- Reposted by Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich🧬 From 14–16 Nov, join us at the #DeutschesMuseum for “Stem Cell Stories” — an interactive exhibition on stem cells, identity & epigenetics. 🎙️ Roundtable discussion on #AI in stem cell research & its ethical challenges on 📅14 Nov ⏲️18:30. #StemCells #Epigenetics #AIinBiomedicine #HelmholtzMunich
- 🎓 Great to see LMU highlighting alumnus Stephan Kotrade in an alumni portrait! He fondly recalls the inspiring lectures of Prof. Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, founding director of the Gene Center Munich — where innovation and curiosity still drive research today🚀 www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
- 📣Don't miss this amazing publication from the Hopfner lab👇
- Thrilled that our work is now finally out in Nature Comms! rdcu.be/eG3vP We reveal cryo-EM structures of the MRN complex bound to DNA & TRF2 - showing how DNA breaks are sensed and regulated at telomeres. Fantastic work by first authors @yilanfan.bsky.social @filizkuybu.bsky.social & Hengjun!
- 🤩Congratulations to Lukas Milles on being awarded an ERC Starting Grant – we’re proud to have you at the Gene Center! 👏🥂 @lfmilles.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @lmumuenchen.bsky.social
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- 🥳Congratulations, Marleen!👏
- Exciting news! We're thrilled to announce the six outstanding laureates of the International Birnstiel Award for Doctoral Studies in Molecular Life Sciences 2025! 🏆Congratulations to all awardees and honourable mentions! 🎉 1/ ➡️ www.imp.ac.at/news/article...
- LMU remains the best German university www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
- Check out this LMU article on Lukas Milles’ research — one of our rising talents!😉 Nanomachines made to measure: protein design with artificial intelligence www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/... @lfmilles.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Gene Center Munich @LMU MunichWe‘re proud to share that our #SFB1361 PhD student, Yilan Fan from the @hopfnerlab.bsky.social, has been awarded a poster prize at the CNIO-CaixaResearch Frontiers Meeting “Machines on DNA and RNA: A Molecular Mechanistic Perspective“ held on 28-30 May 2025 in Madrid, Spain. Congrats! 🎉
- Neue Vizepräsidenten der LMU gewählt www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/...
- 📣New paper from the Stingele lab! 👏🥳Congratulations to first author @sduerauer.bsky.social and the @jstingele.bsky.social team on their exciting discovery showing how ubiquitin activates the SPRTN protease to repair toxic DNA–protein crosslinks – a key mechanism for maintaining genome stability👇
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- 🥳Congratulations, Shubo! 🥂👏What a fantastic start to your scientific career! Shubo Zhao @jstingele.bsky.social receives Promotion Award from the Münchner Universitätsgesellschaft: www.genzentrum.uni-muenchen.de/news-events/... MUG prizes for LMU early-career researchers www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
- Reposted by Gene Center Munich @LMU MunichIf EMBL-EBI managed data resources have ever saved you time & effort, this is your chance to give back! Fill in a 15-minute survey to help us: 🌍Demonstrate the real-world impact of our resources 🤓Understand your needs 🌟Secure continued funding Closes 16 July www.surveymonkey.com/r/QGFMBH8?ch...
- Reposted by Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich🎤 Postdocs: want to take the next step and become a #PI? Apply to speak at the TALENT FORUM @www.helmholtz-munich.de, showcase your research in Epigenetics & Nucleic Acids, and connect with top scientists. 🧳 Travel & accommodation covered if selected! 📝 Apply by 31July. 🔗 Info: lnkd.in/drkRvz7N
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- 🤗We're excited to host Daphne Cabianca next Monday! She will give a talk on “Shaping the genome with diet: dietary control of chromatin organization and function in a whole organism” 📅 July 7 🕐 1:15 PM ➡️Lynen Lecture Hall Join us for an inspiring talk – see you there! @daphne-cabianca.bsky.social
- 🤗We're excited to host Daphne Cabianca next Monday! She will give a talk on “Shaping the genome with diet: dietary control of chromatin organization and function in a whole organism” 📅 July 7 🕐 1:15 PM ➡️Lynen Lecture Hall Join us for an inspiring talk – see you there! @daphne-cabianca.bsky.social
- 📣Rotem Sorek @soreklab.bsky.social has been awarded the Robert Koch Prize 2025 – congratulations, Rotem!👏🥂 www.robert-koch-stiftung.de/en/media/pre...
- 🩺💖The new ICON center unites cardiovascular research across disciplines to accelerate clinical translation of innovative therapies. Steffen Massberg and our PI Eckhard Wolf discuss the center’s goals and potential➡ www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
- 🥳Amazing publication from the Hornung lab, in collab. with the Carell lab, on the innate immune system: how modified RNA tricks the immune system. Big shout-out to the two first authors, Marleen Bérouti and Mirko Wagner! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... @v-hornung.bsky.social @m-berouti.bsky.social
- 🌟Hey Master’s students! Don’t miss out on this awesome opportunity in the Bohlen lab!👇
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- 📣Our guest series continues with Oleh Khalimonchuk! We're happy to welcome him next Monday! 🎉 He’ll be talking about “Regulation of mitochondrial shape and function: From basics to disease” 📅 June 2 🕐 1:15 PM ➡️Lynen Lecture Hall Don’t miss it! 🤗✨ @mitocrue.bsky.social @jaelab.bsky.social
- 📣Our guest series continues with Oleh Khalimonchuk! We're happy to welcome him next Monday! 🎉 He’ll be talking about “Regulation of mitochondrial shape and function: From basics to disease” 📅 June 2 🕐 1:15 PM ➡️Lynen Lecture Hall Don’t miss it! 🤗✨ @mitocrue.bsky.social @jaelab.bsky.social
- Amazing! Congratulations to the whole team! Great job, everyone!👏🤩🥂🥳
- We are happy to share that our snR30 story is finally out in @natureportfolio.nature.com 🥳 We report the first structure of a H/ACA snoRNP acting in ribosome synthesis thereby providing a detailed structural and biochemical view of the snR30 snoRNP guiding local 18S rRNA subdomain folding. 👇👇👇
- 🤗 Join us TODAY for the next session of the Gene Center PhD/Postdoc Seminar Series! Finn Becker from the Reichart lab and Milena Milakovic Obradovic from the Keppler lab will present their latest research results🧐 🕐1:15 PM ▶️Lynen Lecture Hall
- Wow, so cool!🌟 Excellence in Nucleic Acid Sciences and Technologies: NUCLEATE Cluster selected for national recognition Led by spokesperson Veit Hornung, the NUCLEATE Cluster secures funding in Germany’s Excellence Strategy 🥂🥳🤩 www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/... @v-hornung.bsky.social
- Reposted by Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich🎉 Major achievement for #LMU in the Excellence Strategy: All seven proposed Clusters of Excellence have successfully passed the review process and will be funded for seven years as of 2026. An outstanding result! 🎉 #ExcellenceCluster #LMUMunich #research Read more here: www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
- 🤗 Join us TODAY for the next session of the Gene Center PhD/Postdoc Seminar Series! Yilan Fan (@hopfnerlab.bsky.social) and Wiebke Kochendörfer (Förstemann lab) will present their latest research on DNA double-strand breaks🧐 🕐1:15 PM ▶️Lynen Lecture Hall
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- Reposted by Gene Center Munich @LMU MunichChoose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
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- We're happy to welcome Evangelos Karousis next Monday! 🎉 He’ll be talking about “Decoding viral secrets using cell-free translation” 🧬 📅 May 12 🕐 1:15 PM ➡️Lynen Lecture Hall Don’t miss it! 🤗✨ @karousislab.bsky.social @jonathanbohlen.bsky.social @unibe.ch
- We're happy to welcome Evangelos Karousis next Monday! 🎉 He’ll be talking about “Decoding viral secrets using cell-free translation” 🧬 📅 May 12 🕐 1:15 PM ➡️Lynen Lecture Hall Don’t miss it! 🤗✨ @karousislab.bsky.social @jonathanbohlen.bsky.social @unibe.ch
- ✨Paper alert in the Klughammer lab👇 Congrats to the team 👏
- 📢Stigler lab in collaboration with the Holt lab decipher that LINE-1 ORF1p forms super-saturated co-condensates with RNA that enable DNA binding and nuclear entry during mitosis. Congratulations!👏👏👏 Details: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Gene Center Munich @LMU MunichThe full videos are available! Check them out: VEIT HORNUNG @v-hornung.bsky.social @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social youtu.be/YBVArSDgFMA
- 🥂🤩first snapshot of yesterday's award ceremony👇
- 🥳Congratulations to our PI Eckhard Wolf, who has been elected to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities! 🎉 www.genzentrum.uni-muenchen.de/research-gro...
- ‼️ Job opportunity ‼️ ➡️ LAFUGA Proteomics is looking for a doctoral researcher: As part of the EU-funded NHPig project, you will study the proteomic profiles of a variety of tissues and biological fluids More details: www.genzentrum.uni-muenchen.de/career/nhpig... www.nhpig.eu
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- 🤩Save the date: Marieke Oudelaar will speak on Molecular Drivers of 3D Genome Folding and Their Function in Gene Regulation💬 We look forward to meeting @mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social😆 Join us on April 8 at 1:30 pm🤗 ➡️Lynen Lecture Hall @mpi-nat.bsky.social
- 🎉 We couldn’t be prouder of you, Veit! 🎉 Next week, Veit Hornung will officially receive the Jeantet-Collen Prize for Translational Medicine in Geneva! The Louis-Jeantet Foundation has created this fantastic video – a must-watch! 📽️👇 🧪 #LJFPrizes #Immunology #ProudMoment #ScienceInMotion
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- 🤩Save the date: Marieke Oudelaar will speak on Molecular Drivers of 3D Genome Folding and Their Function in Gene Regulation💬 We look forward to meeting @mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social😆 Join us on April 8 at 1:30 pm🤗 ➡️Lynen Lecture Hall @mpi-nat.bsky.social
- Don't miss this👇 🧪 #cancer @lmu-klinikum.bsky.social
- Reposted by Gene Center Munich @LMU MunichHappy to share our latest pre-print! We solved the cryoEM structures of human DNA repair factor MRN bound to DNA and to TRF2. Main work of Yilan, Filiz @filizkuybu.bsky.social and Hengjun. Great collab within the @sfb1361.bsky.social and @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social 🧬🔨 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Did you know?🧐 🗺️The campuses Grosshadern and Martinsried together form a hotspot of life science research. Located at the♥️, @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social is part of a vibrant research community @lmumuenchen.bsky.social @lmu-klinikum.bsky.social @mpibiochem.bsky.social @bmc-lmu.bsky.social
- Reposted by Gene Center Munich @LMU MunichRegister now for The Ageing Genome: from Mechanisms to Disease conference. Amazing line-up of speakers and great opportunities for presenting your work and discussing with leaders in the field #EESAgeing @embl.org @cecad.bsky.social www.embl.org/about/info/c...
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- Reposted by Gene Center Munich @LMU MunichOpen call! The EMBO Global Investigator Network supports group young leaders who are setting up their laboratories in Chile, India, Singapore or Taiwan. Apply by 1 May: embo.org/funding/fellowships… #ResearchFunding #LifeSciences 🧪
- ➡️RNA damage⬅️ was long dismissed as not that significant. In an interview, Julian Stingele explains why this view has changed: www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/... #RNA #NucleicAcids @lmumuenchen.bsky.social @jstingele.bsky.social
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- 🥳Congratulations, Matthias Tschöp! 🥂 Following our successful past collaborations in promoting young PIs to tenure-track professorships, we look forward to working with you to shape LMU’s future🤩
- Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Matthias Tschöp. Der derzeitige CEO des Helmholtz Zentrums München wurde heute zum neuen Präsidenten der LMU gewählt. Seine sechsjährige Amtszeit beginnt am 1. Oktober 2025. www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/...
