SFB 1381 - Protein Machineries

The 2nd International Symposium of our SFB is coming up soon - registrations ends this Friday, Feb 27, so hurry and sign up if you'd like to join!

www.sfb1381.uni-freiburg.de/symposium2026

The cotranslational cycle of the ribosome-bound Hsp70 homolog Ssb - Nature Communications Ribosomal translation is coupled to cotranslational protein folding, process assisted by dedicated chaperones. Here, authors present structures of the ribosome-bound yeast Hsp70 chaperone Ssb, identif...

New publication by our SFB reveals interactions between chaperones and the ribosomal machinery using cryo-EM.

The study of Sabine Rospert (project B08), Thorsten Hugel (project B07) and David Haselbach (former project B11), was published in Nature Communications:
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

The screening of the movie "Picture a Scientist" in our SFB last week sparked a lively discussion that connected the stories on screen to today’s academic realities, especially the persistent leaky pipeline.
Thanks to our hosts, the panelists, and everyone who contributed to the thoughtful exchange!

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧪 Don't forget to send in your nominations for the FEBS | EMBO #WomenInScience Award.

Deadline: 15 May

Read more:
https://www.embo.org/the-embo-communities/febsembo-women-in-science-awardees/nominate-for-the-women-in-science-award/
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There are still spots available - join us this Wednesday for the streaming of "Picture a Scientist"!

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In the first feature of our "SFB 1381´s Female Minds" series in 2026 we talked to Asifa Akhtar, director at the MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics and vice speaker of our SFB.

Find the interview on our web page: www.sfb1381.uni-freiburg.de/sfb-1381s-fe...

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Movie 📽️ Night Alert - join us for the streaming “Picture a Scientist” plus an open discussion led by three of our SFB 1381´s female minds.

When: Wednesday, Feb 04, 4:15 pm
Where: ZBMZ, Stefan-Meier-Str. 17, Room Nr 01 006

Save your spot here:
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Last week our SFB and RTG 2606 hosted another successful „Career Paths in Life Sciences” event.

A big thanks to our speakers André Schmandke, Anna Resch, Stephanie Ketterer and Marina Toplak for sharing their personal career stories and participating in the discussion session with the attendees!

Huge congratulations 🎉 on the first PhD defense in our SFB in 2026:
Shamphavi Sivabalasarma successfully defended her thesis at the University of Freiburg.

All the best for the future, Dr. Sivabalasarma!

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Join the talk by Frederica Locci this Friday - co-hosted by our SFB!

Join us for a 📢 #CIBSS / SFB 1381 Joint Seminar

🗓 13 Jan 2026 | 12:00–13:00
👉 @jmathony.bsky.social (#uniheidelberg)
🎙 Engineering stimulus-controlled proteins through modular domain recombination
📍 Lecture Hall, Institute of Biology I, Hauptstr. 1

🔗 kurzlinks.de/4mlv

#SynBio #ProteinEngineering

Join us for our next career afternoon on Wednesday January 14!

Save your spot here:
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Don’t miss the final feature of the year in our “SFB 1381’s Female Mind” series: this time we talked to Ipek Akol, one of our SFB 1381 Young Investigator Grantees.

Find the interview on our web page: www.sfb1381.uni-freiburg.de/sfb-1381s-fe...

#womeninstem

How do you turn cryo-EM data into a 3D structure?

A recent workshop by our Cryo-EM Facility answered this question by demonstrating the full workflow from raw data to a 3D map using CryoSPARC.

Thanks to Stefan Steimle (Cryo-EM Facility) and Florian Schneider (SFB 1381) for hosting!

Last week, our early career researchers gathered in Heidelberg for their annual retreat!

The agenda included inspiring lectures, flash talks, plenty of discussions and a visit to the Christmas market.

Overall, the retreat strengthened the scientific and social connections within the SFB 1381!

Because computational structure prediction plays a key role in our SFB’s work, it was fantastic to have our early career researchers join the workshop “Practical Approaches to Protein Structure Prediction: AlphaFold and More.”

A big thank-you to Florian Schneider (project A04) for hosting!

Our SFB 1381 student Mohd Areeb successfully defended his doctoral thesis at the University of Freiburg last week!

Congratulations 🎉 Areeb and all the best for your future!

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Join us today (Wednesday, Nov 26) for a talk by Dejana Mokranjac from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich -she is going to present the latest results from her mitochondrial research.
We are very much looking forward to her presentation!

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Welcome back to our “SFB 1381’s Female Minds” series! This time, we had the pleasure of speaking with Sonja-Verena Albers (University of Freiburg).

Check out the interview on our web page: www.sfb1381.uni-freiburg.de/sfb-1381s-fe...

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Heartiest congratulations to Elena Sindram, who successfully defended her doctoral thesis last week.

Elena conducted her research under the supervision of our SFB 1381 PI Laura Gámez-Díaz within project B10.

All the best for your future endeavors, Elena!

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A big thanks to our five speakers and to all participants for making the “Career Paths” event, organized by our SFB and RTG 2606 last Wednesday (Nov 12), a great success!

We are very much looking forward to our next career afternoon, taking place on Jan 14, 2026!

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Join us for a joint seminar by Prof. Andreas Bausch @tum.de to explore how structure formation in organoid systems reveals fundamental principles of life.

🧫 CIBSS / SFB 1381 Seminar | 11 Nov 2025 · 12:00
📍 Lecture Hall, Biology I (Hauptstr. 1, Freiburg) & livestream
🔗https://kurzlinks.de/oz1f

Congratulations! Our SFB 1381 Principal Investigator Claudine Kraft has been awarded an esteemed ERC Synergy Grant, along with her partners in Vienna and Berkeley.

Join us for today´s talk by Naresh Sepuri!
11.15 am in the ZBMZ building.

Another installment of our joint event series "Career Paths in Life Sciences", organized by graduate school RTG 2606 and our SFB 1381, is coming up this winter semester.

Join us next week for the first career afternoon on November 12.

Please register: terminplaner6.dfn.de/b/08c0d56aac...

Join us for our SFB 1381 seminar tomorrow (Wednesday, 30th) at 11.15 am! Michael Gray from the University of Alabama is sharing his recent insights into the stress response pathway in E.coli.
Guests are welcome!

An exciting lecture series is coming up - and two members of our SFB 1381 (Sonja Albers and Beatrice Lace) are contributing!

Arpita Nandy successfully defended her doctoral thesis at the University of Freiburg this week!

Arpita, a SGBM SFB 1381 fellow, was supervised by our PI Nora Vögtle in the project B04.

Congratulations Dr. Nandy! 🌟

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We are excited to share that one of the recipients of this years "Wübben Student Grant" is master student Frédéric Sonak, who is working on a collaborative project between our SFB 1381 projects B10 (Claudine Kraft) and project YIG05 (Viviane Timmermann).
Congratulations, Frédéric!

A big thank you to the organizers — including members of our SFB 1381 — for fostering such an inspiring, interdisciplinary exchange of ideas. Events like this truly highlight the power of collaboration across scientific fields!