Dormann Lab

🚨The 2026 IDP GRC Program is LIVE! 📣
Check it out: www.grc.org/intrinsicall...
We’ve got an incredible speaker lineup! 🌟
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be highlighting some of them and giving you a sneak peek at the exciting topics they’ll be covering. Stay tuned!

2026 Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Conference GRC The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Intrinsically Disordered Proteins will be held in Les Diablerets, Vaud (fr) Switzerland. Apply today to reserve your spot.

🚨🚨The GRC on Intrinsically Disordered Proteins #IDPs is back!! 🍝🧵🏔️Join us for cutting-edge IDP science, great discussions, and mountain views 🌄🍝
📅 June 21-26, 2026 | Les Diablerets, Switzerland
👉 Details & registration: grc.org/intrinsicall...

Anthony Hyman recognized as a Citation Laureate 2025 Clarivate unveils Citation Laureates 2025 - a distinguished group of 22 researchers

Anthony Hyman @mpi-cbg.de @hymanlab.bsky.social recognized as a Clarivate @clarivateag.bsky.social Citation Laureate 2025. He is one of the 2025 Laureates in the field of chemistry, together with Clifford Brangwynne @brangwynnelab.bsky.social and Michael K. Rosen. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Last week we attended a fantastic meeting of the SPP2191 and GBM Compact on Condensates!
Congrats to members of the Dormann Lab, Yelyzaveta Zadorozhna and Fatmanur Tiryaki, for giving great talks, and to Saskia Hutten for winning a poster award 🎉!
@spp2191.bsky.social
@sfb1551.bsky.social

Congratulations to all poster awardees of the GBM Compact 2025 conference "Focus on Condensate Biology" in Frankfurt, including Saskia Hutten from our group 🎉!

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The DFG-funded Research Training Group RTG 3120 – Biomolecular Condensates: From Physics to biological Functions” in Dresden is currently recruiting PhD-candidates.

More Info here: dresdencondensates.org/join-us/

Please apply until October 31,2025

GBM Compact Focus on Condensate Biology is opened by Edward Lemke. Looking forward to a great meeting!

Our IPP Winter Call is now open! 📢 Are you looking for a fully funded PhD project in an international environment, doing cutting-edge research, and developing your career with advanced training? Join the #IPPMainz!

Learn more via www.imb.de/phd & apply by 16 October

#IMBMainz @unimainz.bsky.social

Fresh in Nature Communications: a big update from the international biocondensate community featuring SFB1551 spokespersons @dormannlab.bsky.social and @lemkelab.bsky.social
Read more 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congrats to all authors!

Excited to share our recent work (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) led by PhD student Busra Ozguney & postdoc Priyesh Mohanty! We reveal atomic-level insights into how GU-rich RNA binding modulates the conformational ensemble of TDP-43 RRMs, promoting function and preventing misfolding.

5th Fall Meeting Registration - DGMS Young Scientists Registration will be open until the 31st of July. Detailed information and a preliminary schedule will be announced in due time. There is no registration fee for the conference. Room reservations at t...

🧪To all junior mass spectrometrists 🚨: The Fall Meeting of the DGMS Young Scientists will be held at monastery Hünfeld, September 17-19, 2025. Great chance to exchange with other students so don’t miss out! 🧪#teammassspec
#AcademicSky #ChemSky
Register here:👇🏼
youngscientists.dgms.eu/5th-fall-mee...

Thrilled to co-advertise this postdoc or PhD position with @erhardtlab.bsky.social!
Join us, if RNP assembly on centromeres, RNA modifications, & bioinformatics are your thing.
More info also on modiclab.org.

Come join us for the next monthly on-line seminar (4th July, 1pm GMT) aimed to connect the UK Biomolecular Condensate community (All are welcome to come and listen!) www.ukcondensates.co.uk/monthly-netw... @leebiophysics.bsky.social Alex Borodavka @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social

One more week to catch the early bird registration deadline and submit an abstract to this International Condensate Meeting in Frankfurt, with fantastic invited speakers!
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We've been studying mechanisms of resilience that protect lysosomes from damage and wrote a review on the topic. We consider lysosomal stress and damage on a spectrum. Please help me share as this is my first post 😀 and I don't have many followers! 🙏 Open Access: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Susan Lindquist School on Proteostasis Cells constantly surveil and monitor their proteome to ensure proper function. These processes, spanning multiple steps from protein synthesis to folding and degradation, are collectively known as pr…

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 🧪

Condensate 💦 lovers, check out this upcoming meeting taking place in September in Frankfurt
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congratulations, Kevin! looking forward to reading your new story!

Fantastic news: the Frankfurt-based research network SCALE (SubCellular Architecture of LifE) will receive funding by the DFG and become a new Excellence Cluster! 🎉
Happy to be part of it, congrats & many thanks to @mixmue.bsky.social @ihaenelt.bsky.social @becklab.bsky.social
for all the hard work!

2nd Life Sciences Postdoc Symposium Mainz - Connect, learn & grow with fellow postdocs & staff scientists from Mainz, Frankfurt, Darmstadt & the region! 🔬

26 June 2025
➡️ www.imb.de/postdoc-symposium25

Join us to strengthen your scientific network & exchange ideas with your peers.

#postdoclife

Max Planck Research Group Leader (W2) in Molecular Design We are looking for exceptional early-career scientists conducting computational research with a proven record of accomplishment. The primary focus of this call is on candidates proposing research on b...

Job alert: Join us in Mainz as

Max Planck Research Group Leader (W2) in Molecular Design

...and make your own research dreams happen on de novo design, generative models, proteins, materials ...
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@mpip-mainz.mpg.de

Highly recommended read from the Banerjee lab!

IDPSeminars About

The BPS IDP Subgroup and IDPSeminars present a #BiophysicsWeek Trainee Symposium!This event will showcase innovative research from emerging scientists, featuring presentations from both graduate students and postdocs
Thursday, March 27, at 12:00 PM Central Time

Less than a month left to apply to the International PhD programme!

Looking to develop a scientific career in #DNArepair, #RNAbiology, #Bioinformatics, or #Immunology? Apply now join our global community of over 200 #PhD students! 🌍

The Dormann Lab has a PhD project on offer, apply by April 3 👇

We are thrilled to unveil our latest video showcasing our cutting-edge Collaborative Research Center! Produced for Biophysical Society TV, this video has just been featured at the Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society in Los Angeles.
Huge thank you to everyone involved in bringing this to life!

I was a great experience!

The ageing genome: from mechanisms to disease

Register and submit your abstract now: The ageing genome: from mechanisms to disease www.embl.org/about/info/c...

Come and join us for the RMU RNA salon "Translation" in Frankfurt! Tuesday, April 1st 2025, 12:30 – 6:00 pm at Medical Campus Niederrad, Building 22 – HS22-2.

Please register here: bit.ly/13_RMU_RNA_S...

Thank you @rnasociety.bsky.social and #lexogen for funding!

Interested in the molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration?
📢 We are looking for a PhD student interested in studying the role of TDP-43 in genome stability and the DNA damage response!
Apply via this fantastic PhD Programme until April 3 👇