December 2015. New counting strategy capable of reporting the oligomeric state of dense, membrane-bound protein complexes

CEF-Forscher nutzen Licht als Werkzeug, um zelluläre Prozesse aufzuklären - beleuchtet vom Wissenschaftsmagazin „Forschung Frankfurt“

December 2015. Identification of interactors and substrates suggest central role of the mitochondrial protease CLPXP in energy metabolism

December 2015. New project investigates a novel molecular sieve for structure determination of proteins

November 2015. 11 million € for new collaborative research centre (SFB 1177)

November 2015. Identifying and quantifying two ligand-binding sites while imaging membrane receptors

October 2015. Funding for tomographic reconstruction algorithm Super-Sampling SART

October 2015. Ten to hundred-fold higher sensitivity achieved

October 2015. Academia Europaea elects Ivan Dikic as new member

October 2015. Senior editorship of non-profit research journal supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Max Planck Society and Wellcome Trust

September 2015. Optogenetically paced muscular pump of C. elegans as model system for cardiac arrythmias

September 2015. Access to state-of-the-art infrastructures for structural biology for scientists across Europe

September 2015. Novel optogenetic tool for light-dependent generation of the cellular signaling molecule cGMP

2 September 2015. A generous initiative of the Karin and Carlo Giersch Foundation enables the Faculty of Biosciences of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main in cooperation with the Frankfurt Institute for...

August 2015. A selection of easy to use bacterial homo-oligomers for the validation of molecular counting methods using fluorescence microscopy

August 2015. New method avoids masking by large probes yet achieves labeling specificity comparable to antibodies

July 2015. Visualizing single cadherins within cell membranes at nanometric resolution showed that they arrange in ordered clusters. Disruption of the cis-interface indicates that formation of oligomeric clusters controls the...

July 2015. The central graduate academy of Goethe University Frankfurt awards prize to recognize outstanding performance as PhD supervisor

June 2015. New autophagy receptor with central role in cellular quality control discovered

Mai 2015. Simone Fulda übernimmt die Leitung des Ausschusses für Forschungsbauten im Wissenschaftsrat

May 2015. Collaborative research centre "Molecular Principles of RNA-based Regulation" receives 8.9 million Euro of research funding.

May 2015. Amparo Acker-Palmer elected EMBO Member

May 2015. Haploinsufficiency of TBK1 causes familial ALS and fronto-temporal dementia

May 2015. Biologist Stefanie Dimmeler receives ERC Advanced Grant

May 2015. Neurobiologist Amparo Acker-Palmer receives ERC Advanced Grant

April 2015. Enrico Schleiff starts his new three-year term in May 2015

April 2015. Analysis of cytoskeletal reorganization during epithelial tissue sealing by large-volume electron tomography

März 2015. DFG funds new priority programme with 6 million euros

March 2015. New strategy to visualize within cells specific recently synthesized proteins with both spatial and temporal resolution

February 2015. Horizontal membrane-intrinsic α-helices in the stator a-subunit of an F-type ATP synthase

February 2015. CircRNAs show high abundance in brain tissue and brain-expressed circRNAs are made from host genes that code for synaptic proteins

February 2015. New flow cytometry assay allows monitoring of transporter activity under close to physiological conditions in scarce primary immune cells

February 2015. New tool for the study of locatised protein synthesis

February 2015. Lipids important for structure and function of an ABC transporter revealed

January 2015. The protein PLEKHM1 regulates autophagosome-lysosome fusion as well as Salmonella-containing vacuole biogenesis and infection.

January 2015. International recognition for the major contribution of the microscopy technology developed by Ernst Stelzer and his group.

January 2015. 3D structure of complex I at 3.6 to 3.9 Å resolution published in the journal Science.