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Congratulations to Dr. Martin Volek for receiving the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship! Martin will carry out his research project in the Höbartner group and focus on the in vitro selection of new nucleic acid catalysts for epigenetic research.

We are happy to introduce our new group members Saumya Kumar Gupta and Anjan Pal. Welcome to the University of Würzburg and good luck for your PhD projects!

Our RNAmed PhD students, Arpan Banerjee and Dominik Rappert, accompanied by Claudia Höbartner, took part in the RNAmed retreat from July 2 to 5 on the beautiful island of San Servolo in Venice, Italy.

Martin Volek received the 2nd place in the Sanofi Award in Pharmacy for his doctoral project. Congratulations!

Riboknights participated in this year's soccer tournament of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy.

Hermann Neitz was selected to give a talk on light-induced crosslinking of DNA, Evengiia Dorinova presented a poster on RNA-alkylating ribozymes, Claudia Höbartner gave a talk about structures, mechanisms and applications of MTR1 and SAMURI, and Martin Volek presented results from his PhD on the Aurora deoxyribozyme.

Our two teams were both successful. Congratulations!

A cordial welcome to our new postdoc Dr. Martin Volek from the Czech Republic.

Arpan Banerjee, one of our PhD students received the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (BIF) PhD Fellowship.

From 25.02. – 28.02.2025, four months after the official start of the International Research Group 2991, the involved PIs and PhD students from India and Germany came together on the beautiful campus of IISER Thiruvananthapuram for a Start-up Meeting.

Old tradition as a prelude to carnival. Women are taking power. The idea has been around since the Middle Ages. At a time when women were subordinate to men in everything, there was an “upside-down world” on one day during carnival time.

Crystal structures of the SAM-utilizing ribozyme, SAMURI, were decoded, revealing the structural features that distinguishes itself from SAM riboswitches and thus enables the alkyl transfer reactions.