Alexander Heckel reports about how he got into chemistry and about his current research

Alexander Heckel wins stipend from the Verband der Chemischen Industrie

29 October 2008: Werner Müller-Esterl was elected as the successor of Rudolf Steinberg who will step down as president of the Goethe University at the end of 2008

Expert in electron tomography joins CEF faculty

Applications are invited from scientists in Frankfurt for CEF Adjunct Investigatorships. Deadline: 25 October 2008

Deadline 8 October 2008

A collaboration with scientists at Princeton and Toronto

Oxazolidinone antibiotics perturb the ribosomal peptidyl-transferase center and effect tRNA positioning

4-Chloro-α-cyanocinnamic acid is an advanced, rationally designed MALDI matrix

A new tRNA intermediate revealed on the ribosome during EF4-mediated back-translocation

Structural basis for the selectivity of the external thioesterase of the surfactin synthetase

Amparo Acker-Palmer's team report a model of cooperative AMPA receptor and ephrinB2 reverse signaling at the synapse. Heinrich Betz and colleagues report that PICK1 uncoupling from mGluR7a causes absence-like seizures.

Andreas Reichert publishes paper on mitochondrial targeting adaptation of glutamate dehydrogenase with Henrik Kaessmann's group at the University of Lausanne

Andreas Reichert together with collaborators from the universities of Munich, Yale and Ohio State just published new results on tRNA import by mitochondria in PNAS

Werner Müller-Esterl delighted with the success of Metello Innocenti and his team.

The cluster invites proposals for research projects. Deadline for proposals: 15 August 2008.

Volker Dötsch and colleagues publish paper on transmembrane segment enhanced labeling as a tool for the backbone assignment of α-helical membrane proteins

Martin Pos accepts the offer to become CEF Professor of Membrane Transport Machineries. His research focuses on the structure and function of membrane transport machineries, in particular on tripartite multidrug efflux...

Ivan Dikic and colleagues report the identification of a new ubiquitin receptor as well as its ubiquitin-binding mechanism. The results were published on 22 May 2008 in two papers in Nature:

Translational Regulation via L11: Molecular Switches on the Ribosome Turned On and Off by Thiostrepton and Micrococcin

Wittig, Stuart, Velours and Schägger (2008) Characterization of domain-interfaces in monomeric and dimeric ATP synthase. Mol. Cell. Proteomics

Robert Tampé and colleagues present new results on "Spatial and mechanistic separation of cross-presentation and endogenous antigen presentation". The abstract and full text can be accessed here.

The CEF is seeking to appoint an outstanding scientist in Electron Optics/Electron Cryo-Microscopy

Recent results published by CEF Adjunct Investigator Jens Bredenbeck and co-workers received widespread attention from top scientific journals.

Title "Studying axons in vivo"

Martin Pos from the University of Zurich will speak about "The AcrB Efflux Pump : Conformational Cycling and Peristalsis lead to Multidrug Resistance".