Faculty of Biology - University of Freiburg

The second messenger c-di-AMP controls natural competence via ComFB signaling protein Cell Discovery - The second messenger c-di-AMP controls natural competence via ComFB signaling protein

Happy to share our latest finding @natureportfolio.nature.com on #cdiAMP signaling roles in #cyanobacteria natural competence via #ComFB (a new family of #cdiNMP receptors)
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Regulation of YAP activity by nuclear G-actin binding The Yes-associated protein YAP belongs to the TEAD (TEA/ATTS domain) transcriptional co-activators that shuttle between cytoplasm and nuclear compartment. YAP and its paralog TAZ (transcriptional co-a...

Hi all, check out our new preprint where we uncover:"Regulation of YAP activity by nuclear G-actin binding", www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
#actin #YAP/TAZ #transcription #nucleus with help from Sonja-Verena Albers
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Guofeng Zhang successfully defended his doctoral thesis at the University of Freiburg, Germany. The picture shows him and his supervisor Thomas Ott.

Congratulations @guofengzhang.bsky.social for successfully defending your PhD today @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social. Very proud of you. Symbiosis lovers stay tuned, there is a nice study to come from him hopefully soon.

Fresh from the press! For suberin lovers!
Work led by @, my former PhD student and now postdoc in the team, with help of @sarahorvath.bsky.social and in collaboration with @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social .
🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
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Welcome to our student association @fsbiologiefreiburg.bsky.social here on @bsky.app !

For this year's 3-week @stadtradeln.bsky.social our Faculty members and teams contributed a large amount of biking KMs.

Good for our health and our environment 🌱

Nice job @degradomics.bsky.social @archaellum.bsky.social @cyanolab.bsky.social @dompsfr.bsky.social @reskilab.bsky.social et al 👍🏻

We are pleased to announce the latest feature in our SFB 1381´s Female Minds Series- this time we talked to Annegret Wilde.

Find the answers to the three questions we asked her here: www.sfb1381.uni-freiburg.de/sfb-1381s-fe...

#womeninstem
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Amazing talk on all things Lateral Roots by @sophiezoe.bsky.social today in our @dompsfr.bsky.social seminar series. 🙏🏼 We binged through the whole series in under an hour!

Everything you want to know about lateral roots

Join us for our next seminar by @sophiezoe.bsky.social (@kleinevehnlab.bsky.social), from auxin oscillations to gravitropic angles, dive into the plasticity of lateral root development!

📅 Fri, Jul 18 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009
See you there! #PlantScience

Last Friday, we celebrated our annual Faculty Day — once again a fantastic occasion for everyone to come together! | Faculty of Biology Last Friday, we celebrated our annual Faculty Day — once again a fantastic occasion for everyone to come together! The day began with a special event marking 50 years of Geobotany at our faculty, cha...

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Congrats to Suraj Dasharath Patil, who defended his PhD on July 8th in the lab of Prof. Michael Köttgen!
His dissertation investigated the “Deorphanization of kidney metabolite transporter proteins.”
well done, Dr. Patil! 🎓👏
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The professors of the Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, at their recent retreat.
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Nice talk by Thomas Ott on molecular mechanisms that steer INFECTION THREADS progression along a defined cellular trajectory at #2025ISMPMI.

Thomas Ott and Chris van der Does winning the teaching prize at the Faculty of Biology at the University of Freiburg, Germany.

Happy to be selected again for this years teaching prize awarded by the students at the @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social for the best teaching in the past winter term. Congratulations also to @chrisvanderdoes.bsky.social who received the same prize for the winter term. A motivating reward.

Upper Rhine Immunology #URI Group Meeting in #Freiburg on 24.10.2025

Registration deadline tomorrow 15.07.2025. Great meeting with fantastic scientists from the region! Do not miss it.
#FreiburgImmunology #CIBSS #UniFreiburg

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Join us for today´s seminar with Ulrike Endesfelder!
4.15 pm in the Lecture Hall of the Biology I building in Freiburg.

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What a week - what a spirit at our retreat and faculty day @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social 🌿

Proud to be part of such a dynamic university where our faculty stands out as one of the most vibrant places — full of positivity, commitment, and drive. The future is bright @uni-freiburg.de

Sweet summer night vibes as this year's Faculty party slowly comes to end 🎶

This year's Bio-Olympics Champion is the group of AG Römer 🎉🙏🏼

@sophiezoe.bsky.social in action

This year's Bio-Olympics games have started. Who will be Champion?

This year's teaching awards go to @chrisvanderdoes.bsky.social and @ottlab.bsky.social 🎉💐 Congratulations and thank you to all teachers of this year!

After the break, we finish the symposium with talks by our fantastic iGEM team, newly hired Professor @simonelsasser.bsky.social and honorary Professor @ibrahimcisse.bsky.social of @mpi-ie.bsky.social.

A photo of Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kleine-Vehn showing the Titleslide of his presentation

@kleinevehnlab.bsky.social introducing #CIBSS at the @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social #FacultyDay. If you haven’t already: Come, join! There’s a scientific programme followed by entertainment and BBQ!

The first part of our Faculty Day symposium highlighted the latest research and teaching achievements, and how two Excellence Clusters integrated into our faculty. Great talks by Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, @archaellum.bsky.social, @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social, chaired by @ottlab.bsky.social

Now attending the @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social event where @archaellum.bsky.social presents diversity of the faculties research

Join us for the Faculty Day 2025, including an exciting scientific program, Bio-Olympic games and a party! See you in 2 weeks?

Dr. Wenjing Qi, Bioinformatik und Molekulargenetik, Universität Freiburg

Wie das #Genom sich gegen Feinde von innen verteidigt: Internationales Forschungsteam um Freiburger Biolog*innen Dr. Wenjing Qi und Prof. Ralf Baumeister hat Mechanismus des evolutionären Wettrüstens in menschlichen Zellen entschlüsselt. @cibss.bsky.social #DNA
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Dean @archaellum.bsky.social kicks off Faculty Day with a heartfelt welcome to our amazing support team! From our dedicated technicians & secretaries to the workshop and building management, your hard work powers our research and teaching success. We couldn’t do it without you! 🙌🏼💙🙏🏼

Today's a full day of celebrations at the Faculty of Biology!

We start with a symposium to celebrate 50 years of Geobotany, followed by a full afternoon and evening of Fakultätsfest.

Everyone is welcome: faculty, guests, friends and family.