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Three new positions for W1 professors

W1 professorships advertised in mass spectrometry, membrane/lipid biochemistry and RNA regulation in higher eukaryotes

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Call for proposals for CEF Focus Projects

Deadline extended up to 14 January 2013

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ERC grants for Michael Potente and Martin Vabulas

The European Research Council has awarded again starting grants to young CEF scientists

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Call for applications for CEF Adjunct Investigator status

CEF invites applications from researchers in Frankfurt for CEF Adjunct Investigatorships

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The potential of light as a tool

Review of methods using light to explore spatial and temporal control of important processes

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Significant new findings on protein folding dynamics

F1000 recommended study describes modulation of structure and dynamics by disulfide bond formation

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A new toolkit for monitoring endogenous ubiquitin

BMLS scientists developed specific Ubiquitin biosensors for in vivo application

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CEF successful in new round of Excellence Initiative

Multi-million Euro grant to expand groundbreaking research on macromolecular complexes in Frankfurt

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Engineering of rotor ring stoichiometries in ATP synthase

Alteration of the gear ratio of an ATP synthase by introducing mutations in its amino acid sequence

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Suche nach der Nadel im Molekülhaufen

Nano-Rezeptoren erkennen selektiv einzelne Moleküle

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Caged glutathione: Triggering protein interaction by light

New photoactivatable capturing tag based on GST-GSH interaction

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Großgeräte effizienter nutzen

Nationales NMR-Netzwerk auf den Weg gebracht

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Institute renamed to honour sponsor

Josef Buchmann sponsors FMLS

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Volker Dötsch receives substantial funds for Reinhart Kosseleck Project

Research into genetic quality control in oocytes received major financial boost

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DFG provides large-scale equipment grant for dynamic nuclear polarisation

Support for method that enhances sensitivity of NMR spectroscopy by some orders of magnitude

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Chaperone system resolved

Guiding tail-anchored membrane proteins to their destination

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EMBO awards life-long membership to Volker Dötsch

FMLS Vice Director and Professor at the Institute of Biophysical Chemistry elected as one of 46 new members

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Completion of FMLS building

August 2011. After only two years of construction time, the new FMLS building has now been finished. Seven groups from a wide range of disciplines have moved in already, creating a vibrant scientific atmosphere. The building ...

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Exploring the autophagy network

Christian Behrends receives Emmy Noether fellowship

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Cerebellar-dependent learning in larval zebrafish

New conditioning paradigm in zebrafish larvae reveals associative learning mediated by cerebellar neurons

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DNA’s sister molecule in the focus

New Collaborative Research Center on RNA function approved by the DFG

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New defense mechanism against Salmonella elucidated

Phosphorylation of the autophagy receptor optineurin restricts salmonella growth

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Calcium-dependent dynamics of cadherin interactions at cell-cell junctions

Direct visualization and quantification of spatiotemporal dynamics in living cells

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Characteristics of human lysozyme and its disease-related mutants in their unfolded states

Understanding of structural determinants of amyloid formation in disease-related point mutations of human lysozyme.

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Exact conformational analysis of 2'-OH group in RNA now possible

Determination of the Conformation of the 2'OH Group in RNA by NMR Spectroscopy and DFT Calculations

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RNA and DNA in living cells measured using PELDOR

Pulsed EPR spectroscopy allows mapping of the structure of nucleic acids

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NMR structures of promising antibiotic for characterization of the ribosomal binding site

Key conformational and structural parameters involved in thiostrepton targeting the ribosome identified

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Ephrin Bs essential components of the Reelin pathway

New results on molecular mechanisms of neuronal migration

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Results shed new light on the development of chronic dermatitis

A new signaling pathway of the immune system is elucidated

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Maintaining genomic stability in the female germline

DNA damage in oocytes induces switch of quality control factor from dimer to tetramer

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How eyes create neural circuits to analyze motion

Optogenetics sheds light on old mystery

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Crosstalk between heat shock protein chapterones and heat stress transcription factors

Versatile regulatory regime proposed for the control of heat stress response

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CEF research article in F1000 library of top 2% of published articles

Engineering encodable Lanthanide-binding tags into loop regions of proteins

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Ribosome recycling depends on mechanistic link between FeS cluster domain and a conformational switch of the twin-ATPase ABCE1

Ancestral role and mechanistic principles of twin-ATPase ABCE1 in ribosome recycling

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Thomas Prisner honoured for his major contributions to the application of ESR spectroscopy

The Bruker Lectureship is awarded by the ESR Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry for major contributions to the application of ESR spectroscopy in chemical or biological systems.

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Optogenetics chosen as Method of the Year 2010

The journal Nature Method chose optogenetics for its capacity to control cell function with light

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Award for discovery of light-activated ion channels and their application in neurobiology

Ernst Bamberg, Georg Nagel and Peter Hegemann receive Karl Heinz Beckurts Award

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CEF researcher chosen as partner in a large NIH-funded research consortium on membrane proteins

The dynamics involved in many membrane protein processes will be investigated by the Membrane Protein Structural Dynamics Consortium

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Multiplexed parallel single transport recordings on nanopore arrays

New technique for high-throughput analysis of membrane proteins

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Nature Chemical Biology Highlight

Microscopic rotary mechanism of ion translocation in the Fo complex of ATP synthases

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5th CEF Adjunct Investigator Symposium to take place on 3 November 2010

Public symposium at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Riedberg Campus

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The way Carnitin enters cells

Frankfurt scientists decode transport protein in the cell membrane

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Frankfurt researcher is admitted to the German Academy of Sciences

Ivan Dikic becomes a member of the Leopoldina

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Shaping the future: Defining moments in chemistry and medicine

Symposium to celebrate 25 years of the Rolf Sammet Guest Professorship at the Goethe University

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CEF Explorer presentation session

Biocenter, Campus Riedberg, 24 August

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Call for Applications for CEF Adjunct Investigator Status

NEW DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 29 AUGUST 2010

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Digital Fly Embryo

Fast, high-contrast imaging of animal development by scanned light sheet-based structured illumination microscopy

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The structure of cbb3 cytochrome oxidase provides insights into proton pumping

The electron supply system and the proton pumping mechanism of this C-family cbb3 oxidase differ substantially from those of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidases

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Ultrafast molecular movies

Jens Bredenbeck appointed to W3 professorship in Frankfurt

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X-ray structural analysis provides new insights into the mode of action of respiratory complex I

Molecular architecture of complex I suggests proton pumping by conformational coupling via a long helical transmission-element

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Structural insight into the substrate-shuttling mechanism of fatty acid synthase in yeast

Cryo EM reveals acyl carrier protein (ACP) in several alternative locations next to the catalytic domains

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In situ visualization and dynamics of newly synthesized proteins in neurons

New method to detect changes in protein synthesis and to evaluate the fate of proteins synthesized in different cellular compartments.

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Structural Studies of 13C,15N-labeled RNA by Solid-State NMR spectroscopy

New options for studies of large RNA-protein-complexes

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The transport complex TAP and the art of substrate selection

Crucial cysteinyl residue identified by group of Robert Tampé

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Presenilin and the development of Alzheimer

Researchers at the Goethe University in Frankfurt have solved the structure of the C-terminal domain of presenilin

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New target for tumor therapy

Nature letter: When drugs could permanently disrupt the pathological formation of blood vessels

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Neurons growing in line

Cultured cells in microfluidic chambers enable systematic experiments at the synapse

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How to predict memory strength

Erin Schuman and colleagues report new findings in the journal Nature

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Steering neurons through the use of light

Heisenberg Professor Alexander Gottschalk is one of the pioneers of optogenetics, a new area of research in neurobiology

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In situ assembly of macromolecular complexes triggered by light

Robert Tampé and colleagues report how "light switches" can be used to control biomolecular interactions

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Ernst Bamberg honoured with the Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences

The Wiley Prize will be awarded to Ernst Bamberg, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for their discovery of a family of light activated ion channels

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Croatian state honors Ivan Dikic

Croatia's President awards Ivan Dikic the Order of Duke Branimir with Ribbon

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Ivan Dikic wins ERC Advanced Investigator Grant

The ERC grant will provide Ivan Dikic with 2.5 Mio Euro to establish a multidisciplinary research program

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Amparo Acker-Palmer wins The Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for Young Researchers

The prize is awarded for her research into ephrins and Eph receptors and their significance in the plasticity of the brain and the development of blood vessels

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