Visiting Scholar Prof. Dr. Tamara Kinzer-Ursem receives prestigious Fellowships
BIOSS visiting scholar, Prof. Dr. Tamara Kinzer-Ursem has received two prestigious international awards to initiate collaborative projects in phosphatase/kinase signaling. Working with BIOSS speaker and CIBSS member Prof. Maja Köhn, Prof. Kinzer-Ursem will use a combined computational-experimental framework to explore how Ca2+-dependent changes in kinase and phosphatase signaling can lead to molecular pathologies in heart […]
BIOSS speaker receives prestigious distinction
Maja Köhn has become a Fellow of the British Royal Society of Chemistry Photo: Jürgen Gocke Prof. Dr. Maja Köhn, chemical biologist at the University of Freiburg, has become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). Fellowship of this scientific society is an honor awarded for outstanding research achievements by chemists. “I am delighted to receive […]
A gene provides both protection and destruction
Researchers at Freiburg University discover new function of the widely disseminated, yet little understood ENDOU enzyme The nematode C. elegans, which is only 1 millimeter in size, is remarkably similar to humans from a genetic standpoint. Scientists can use the worm to study human diseases, life expectancy and even addictive behavior. Photo: Ralf Baumeister The […]
Anti-cancer drug’s mode of operation deciphered
BIOSS researchers show how the membrane protein CD20 keeps the immune system’s antibody-producing cells in check Freiburg researchers investigate how the membrane protein CD20 organizes the nanostructures on the B cell membrane. Illustration: Julia Jellusova Rituximab, an anti-cancer drug targeting the membrane protein CD20, was the first approved therapeutic antibody against B tumor cells. Immunologists […]
Double award: German Society for Immunology (DGfI) honors scientists of BIOSS
Susana Minguet receives the Novartis Prize for therapy-relevant immunological research and Lukas Amann the Herbert Fischer Prize for Neuroimmunology Every year, the German Society for Immunology awards scientists who have made an outstanding contribution to the field of immunology. In 2021, PD Dr. Susana Minguet and Dr. Lukas Amann, researchers at BIOSS and the Cluster […]
Covid fiction by Michael Reth
Detecting and counteracting the corona-2 virus with the help of little friends Freiburg researchers investigate how the membrane protein CD20 organizes the nanostructures on the B cell membrane. Illustration: Julia Jellusova The worldwide pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is affecting one’s daily life in the entire world. Given the […]
Like tentacles catching fish
Researchers decode the structure of the molecular complex that carries detoxifying enzymes in cells to the right place On the left can be seen the structure of the rod-shaped docking complex in a cryo-electron microscopy image. Instead of being bonded to the membrane of a peroxisome, the isolated complex is on an artificial nanodisc. On […]
Stefan Rensing becomes Vice President for Research and Innovation
Senate and University Council elect the University of Marburg Professor of Cell Biology and Alumnus of the University of Freiburg Stefan Rensing. Photo: private The University of Freiburg has chosen its future Vice President for Research and Innovation: at a joint session the Senate and University Council voted by a majority for cell biologist Prof. […]
Combatting cancer with biological circuits
BIOSS Area C coordinator Barbara Di Ventura receives two million-euro ERC Consolidator Grant Photo: Jürgen Gocke The Freiburg engineer and biologist Prof. Dr. Barbara Di Ventura receives a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC), one of the most prestigious prizes for European researchers, for her project “InCanTeSiMo – Intelligent cancer therapy with synthetic biology methods”. […]
The message of the lost BIOSS fortune cookie
Michael Reth Corona makes life and science more difficult, but these complicated times also allow us to do things we always planned to but never found the time for, such as cleaning one’s office. In such an attempt I recently made a discovery in the far corner of the bottom drawer of my desk, namely […]
