Significantly more colleagues than last year showed up at the Women's Carnival wearing ties in the laboratory, thereby qualifying the cutting off of their ties as tacit consent.

The Alpine RNA Summit in St. Moritz, held from January 26 to 29, 2026, was the concluding meeting of the Swiss NCCR "RNA & Disease" and a great opportunity for networking with fellow RNA scientists from RNAmed as well as from Austria and France.

Hsuan-Ai Chen represented the Höbartner group in the user meeting at Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY) and European X-ray free electron laser facility (EuXFEL).