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Exploring daring new ideas, which may transform common wisdom – this is the aim of the relatively young Volkswagen Foundation initiative called Experiment!.

Dr Masato Akutsu, group leader at the IBC2 and BMLS, succeeded in the highly competitive call for bold research concepts. He secured just under 100.000 € to prove a concept which has the potential to revolutionize structure determination by protein crystallography.

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The Institute of Biochemistry II (IBC2) recruits new group leader: Dr. Manuel Kaulich will be leading the newly formed gene editing research group. Dr. Kaulich is an expert on cell cycle regulation and CRISPR-Cas9-rAAV gene replacement technologies.

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Dr. Stefanie Oess, lecturer and independent principal investigator within IBC2, was awarded the 2015 Prize for “Outstanding Dedication to Teaching” of the medical faculty (Preis für besonderes Engagement in der Lehre 2015) in recognition of her project entitled “Introduction of an audience response system in the seminar biochemistry in conjunction with a pedagogic research project”.

The Medical Faculty of the Goethe University Frankfurt awards this prize to promote excellence in teaching and Stefanie was nominated by the undergraduate students attending her biochemistry seminar series.

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Scientists from Frankfurt and Mainz have successfully applied for funding to establish a Collaborative Research Centre (CRC)/Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) on the molecular mechanisms of selective autophagy.

Autophagy literally means „self-eating“ and describes a process by which the cell recycles harmful ballast like aggregated proteins, damaged organelles or even bacterial invaders. For the next four years, the centre is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) with 11 M €.

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The Frankfurt Autophagy Network (FAN) and the Institute of Biochemistry II (IBCII) recently hosted two scientists studying the process of autophagy with state-of-the-art microscopy techniques.

Whereas Dr. Nicholas Ktistakis (Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK) employs high-resolution microscopy to investigate the early processes at the onset of autophagy, Dr. Patrice Codogno (Institute Necker Enfants-Malades, INSERM, Paris, France) is interested in the interplay of primary cilia with autophagy and on the precise cellular sites where the autophagic machinery assembles.

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