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Antikörper entdeckt, der fast alle bekannten HIV-Varianten in Neutralisationstests blockiert Forschungsteam unter Kölner Leitung entdeckt Antikörper 04_A06, der das HI-Virus in fast allen getesteten Varianten in vitro neutralisiert und sogar klassische Resistenzmechanismen überwindet. Der Fun...

🦠Ein internationales Forschungsteam unter Leitung der Uni Köln hat einen Antikörper entdeckt, der die Bekämpfung von HIV verbessern könnte. Er konnte 98,5 Prozent von mehr als 300 verschiedenen HIV-Stämmen neutralisieren.
Mehr dazu:
youtu.be/sPK9ce3YfxY (Video)
Pressemitteilung:
uni.koeln/C95MJ

🚨 Just 3 weeks left to apply for our 12 PhD positions in ageing research! 🚨
🏃‍♀️ Don't wait- hurry up and submit your application now! ✉️

🚨 Speaker Alert! 🚨

We’re excited to welcome Dr. Ranen Aviner for the next joint #CRC1678 / @mpiage.bsky.social Friday Seminar!

🧬 He will talk about "Guardians of the Proteome: How Ribosome Interactions Shape Cellular Resilience"

📅 October 17
📍 Auditorium, MPI Age
⏰ 1:30 PM

💡Check out this new perspectives article from the group of our #CRC1678 project leader @bjornschumacher.bsky.social in Nature Drug Discovery about directly targeting DNA damage in ageing. Congratulations! 🎉

📢 Check out this podcast episode with our #CRC1678 project leader @bjornschumacher.bsky.social talking about his career path as a scientist and why tiny worms are a perfect model to study ageing!

🚨 Speaker Alert! 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce the next #CRC1678 Seminar featuring
Prof. Vera Gorbunova from Rochester University!
Join us for her talk about "Mechanisms of Longevity - Lessons from Evolution"

📅 October 16
📍 #CECAD Lecture Hall
⏰ 2:30 PM

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📹 Here's a small glimpse into daily lab life at CGA! 🧪 This is just one of the many methods our PhD students use at our institutes. Curious? Watch our full video for even more insights about your possibilities at our graduate programme.

Link to full video: www.ageing-grad-school.de/about-us/cal...

Aging by the clock and yet without a program - Nature Aging Meyer and colleagues refute the idea that, as aging can be tracked precisely by clocks, it must be driven by a biological program. They propose that imperfect maintenance and repair processes resultin...

🔥🔥🔥Out now: our Perspectives article in @nataging.nature.com outlining how aging is driven by molecular damage leading to increasing molecular noise whose quantification could track aging with the precision of a clock @meyerdh.bsky.social @alexeimaklakov.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

This review of our @crc1678.bsky.social member @bjornschumacher.bsky.social and @meyerdh.bsky.social is greatly summarizing fundamentals of the molecular biology of aging. What causes aging? Read the answer!

🚨 Speaker Alert! 🚨

We’re excited to welcome Prof. Utz Fischer for the next #CRC1678 Seminar!

🧬 Talking About Making mRNA in the Wrong Compartment: How Poxviruses Express Their Genes in the Cytoplasm of a Host

📅 October 7
📍 CECAD Lecture Hall
⏰ 2:00 PM

👵🏻⏰👴🏻 Is aging a programmed process? Check out this perspective article in Nature Aging by our two #CRC1678 members @meyerdh.bsky.social and @bjornschumacher.bsky.social. Congratulations! 🥳

📖Read about the transition of patients with hereditary nephropathies from pediatric to adult care in this new article by our #CRC1678 project leader @muellerrom.bsky.social. Congratualtions! 🎉

📢Check out this brand new preprint from @akispapantonis.bsky.social on how Variant U1 snRNAs contribute to cell cycle and differentiation control of human iPS cells. Congratulations 🥳

YouTube video by CECAD Cologne CECAD: Our Scientific Mission

⏰🔬⏳What if we could prevent age-related diseases before they even start? At #CECAD Cologne, that’s exactly our #mission! In this new video, Prof. Dr. Carien Niessen shares our vision uncovering the biology of #aging to improve #health.

#HealthyAging @unicologne.bsky.social

youtu.be/9ALNLpG3oYc

🥳 Congratulations from #CRC1678 to @volkerboehm.bsky.social and the Gehring lab for their publication in @cp-molcell.bsky.social on how “Rapid UPF1 depletion illuminates the temporal dynamics of the NMD-regulated human transcriptome” 🧬🧫

Cellular quality control in humans decoded A research team at the University of Cologne and the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin has deciphered in detail the rules behind an important mechanism of cellular quality control in humans / Publication ...

🧐 This is how quality control works in our cells 🧬

Researchers from the #unicologne and the @mdc-berlin.bsky.social have cracked the code of a crucial mechanism of cellular quality control in humans. 👇
uni.koeln/RRCLZ

💪🎉Congratulations to our #CRC1678 member @meyerdh.bsky.social for winning the SIB Bioinformatics PhD Paper Award 2025 for his work on Ageing Clocks ⏰ 👵🏻👴🏻

🚨 Speaker Alert! 🚨
We’re thrilled to announce the next #CRC1678 Seminar featuring @christinemayr.bsky.social !
Join us to dive into the fascinating role of mRNA 3′UTRs in chaperoning intrinsically disordered regions to regulate protein activity.
📅 September 16
📍 CECAD Lecture Hall
⏰ 2:00 PM

Most read, I hear!
Here is your chance to read what @mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social and I had in mind when writing this together.

Carien Niessen elected new Vice-Rector for Research at the University of Cologne The University Election Assembly elected Professor Dr Carien Niessen for the office of Vice-Rector for Research. The cell biologist is particularly committed to promoting excellent research at the uni...

🎉 Congratulations to our new Vice-Rector for Research, Professor Dr. Carien Niessen! 🙌

The University Council has elected Professor Niessen as Vice-Rector for Research to support the advancement of excellent research at the #UniCologne. 🎓

Read more 👇
uni.koeln/9FCEC
@cecad.bsky.social

🚨Speaker Alert 🚨
🧬 Dr. Tilman Schneider-Poetsch is presenting today’s #CRC 1678 Seminar on "Girolline as a sequence-selective probe into eIF5A function"
📍Don’t miss it and join us at the MPI-Age Auditorium at 10 AM!

Our PhD student @larahi.bsky.social l is now in Zurich @ethz.ch in the @picottilab.bsky.social with funding from @crc1678.bsky.social
Lara, enjoy your time on the Hönggerberg 🏔️ in one of the best proteomics labs of the world!! 🧪

🚀 Don’t miss out the poster of our #CRC1678 member @nishahemandhar.bsky.social at the #EMBL Protein Conference — hands down, one of the most mind-blowing presentations out there! 🤯🤯

flourescent picture of motor neurons dyed green and blue (nucleus).

🧓How aging drives neurodegenerative diseases🧠
@thevilchezlab.bsky.social @cecad.bsky.social has identified a direct molecular link between aging and neurodegeneration by investigating how age-related changes in cell signalling contribute to toxic protein aggregation.

🥁Aaaaand, another one — @thevilchezlab.bsky.social is on a publication roll!
Check out this fantastic work from the team led by our #CRC1678 project leader David Vilchez, exploring how the aging factor EPS8 triggers disease-related protein aggregation through RAC signaling hyperactivation.🚀

CRC 1678 is thrilled to collaborate with fellow Life Science CRCs in Cologne to empower our members through hands-on workshops! Huge thanks to @crc1218.bsky.social for launching the series with an inspiring Adobe Illustrator training.🚀
#SciComm #LifeSciences #CollaborationInScience

🚨Check out this brand new publication from the lab of our CRC 1678 project leader @thevilchezlab.bsky.social about how C9orf72 ALS‐causing mutations lead to mislocalization and aggregation of nucleoporin Nup107 into stress granules! Congrationlations to this achievement!🥳

Shuttle and stabilize: H1.2-FUS complex in amyotrophic... : Neural Regeneration Research An abstract is unavailable. This article is available as a PDF only.

Shuttle and stabilize: H1.2-FUS complex in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis pathogenesis
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