SFB 1381 - Protein Machineries
@sfb1381.bsky.social
"Dynamic Organization of Cellular Protein Machineries: From Biogenesis and Modular Assembly to Function"
Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) funded by the DFG at the University of Freiburg
Speaker: Chris Meisinger
http://sfb1381.uni-freiburg.de/imprint
Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) funded by the DFG at the University of Freiburg
Speaker: Chris Meisinger
http://sfb1381.uni-freiburg.de/imprint
A big thanks to our five speakers and to all participants for making the “Career Paths” event, organized by our SFB and RTG 2606 last Wednesday (Nov 12), a great success!
We are very much looking forward to our next career afternoon, taking place on Jan 14, 2026!
@andexerlab.bsky.social
We are very much looking forward to our next career afternoon, taking place on Jan 14, 2026!
@andexerlab.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
A big thanks to our five speakers and to all participants for making the “Career Paths” event, organized by our SFB and RTG 2606 last Wednesday (Nov 12), a great success!
We are very much looking forward to our next career afternoon, taking place on Jan 14, 2026!
@andexerlab.bsky.social
We are very much looking forward to our next career afternoon, taking place on Jan 14, 2026!
@andexerlab.bsky.social
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Join us for a joint seminar by Prof. Andreas Bausch @tum.de to explore how structure formation in organoid systems reveals fundamental principles of life.
🧫 CIBSS / SFB 1381 Seminar | 11 Nov 2025 · 12:00
📍 Lecture Hall, Biology I (Hauptstr. 1, Freiburg) & livestream
🔗https://kurzlinks.de/oz1f
🧫 CIBSS / SFB 1381 Seminar | 11 Nov 2025 · 12:00
📍 Lecture Hall, Biology I (Hauptstr. 1, Freiburg) & livestream
🔗https://kurzlinks.de/oz1f
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Join us for a joint seminar by Prof. Andreas Bausch @tum.de to explore how structure formation in organoid systems reveals fundamental principles of life.
🧫 CIBSS / SFB 1381 Seminar | 11 Nov 2025 · 12:00
📍 Lecture Hall, Biology I (Hauptstr. 1, Freiburg) & livestream
🔗https://kurzlinks.de/oz1f
🧫 CIBSS / SFB 1381 Seminar | 11 Nov 2025 · 12:00
📍 Lecture Hall, Biology I (Hauptstr. 1, Freiburg) & livestream
🔗https://kurzlinks.de/oz1f
Congratulations! Our SFB 1381 Principal Investigator Claudine Kraft has been awarded an esteemed ERC Synergy Grant, along with her partners in Vienna and Berkeley.
Congratulations! Claudine Kraft @kraftlabfr.bsky.social receives a prestigious ERC Synergy Grant – to find out why some protein #aggregates can be cleared by #autophagy and others not. She and her partners will harness this knowledge to improve autophagy in #ageing & #disease.
🔗 kurzlinks.de/50j8
🔗 kurzlinks.de/50j8
ERC Synergy Grant for Prof. Dr. Claudine Kraft
CIBSS speaker Prof. Dr. Claudine Kraft is part of a team receiving an ERC Synergy Grant of ten million euros for her research on how autophagy degrades large protein aggregates in health and disease.
kurzlinks.de
November 7, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Congratulations! Our SFB 1381 Principal Investigator Claudine Kraft has been awarded an esteemed ERC Synergy Grant, along with her partners in Vienna and Berkeley.
Join us for today´s talk by Naresh Sepuri!
11.15 am in the ZBMZ building.
11.15 am in the ZBMZ building.
November 6, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Join us for today´s talk by Naresh Sepuri!
11.15 am in the ZBMZ building.
11.15 am in the ZBMZ building.
Another installment of our joint event series "Career Paths in Life Sciences", organized by graduate school RTG 2606 and our SFB 1381, is coming up this winter semester.
Join us next week for the first career afternoon on November 12.
Please register: terminplaner6.dfn.de/b/08c0d56aac...
Join us next week for the first career afternoon on November 12.
Please register: terminplaner6.dfn.de/b/08c0d56aac...
November 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Another installment of our joint event series "Career Paths in Life Sciences", organized by graduate school RTG 2606 and our SFB 1381, is coming up this winter semester.
Join us next week for the first career afternoon on November 12.
Please register: terminplaner6.dfn.de/b/08c0d56aac...
Join us next week for the first career afternoon on November 12.
Please register: terminplaner6.dfn.de/b/08c0d56aac...
Join us for our SFB 1381 seminar tomorrow (Wednesday, 30th) at 11.15 am! Michael Gray from the University of Alabama is sharing his recent insights into the stress response pathway in E.coli.
Guests are welcome!
Guests are welcome!
October 29, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Join us for our SFB 1381 seminar tomorrow (Wednesday, 30th) at 11.15 am! Michael Gray from the University of Alabama is sharing his recent insights into the stress response pathway in E.coli.
Guests are welcome!
Guests are welcome!
An exciting lecture series is coming up - and two members of our SFB 1381 (Sonja Albers and Beatrice Lace) are contributing!
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Wir freuen uns schon sehr!
Wir freuen uns schon sehr!
October 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
An exciting lecture series is coming up - and two members of our SFB 1381 (Sonja Albers and Beatrice Lace) are contributing!
Arpita Nandy successfully defended her doctoral thesis at the University of Freiburg this week!
Arpita, a SGBM SFB 1381 fellow, was supervised by our PI Nora Vögtle in the project B04.
Congratulations Dr. Nandy! 🌟
@sgbmfreiburg.bsky.social
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Arpita, a SGBM SFB 1381 fellow, was supervised by our PI Nora Vögtle in the project B04.
Congratulations Dr. Nandy! 🌟
@sgbmfreiburg.bsky.social
@biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Arpita Nandy successfully defended her doctoral thesis at the University of Freiburg this week!
Arpita, a SGBM SFB 1381 fellow, was supervised by our PI Nora Vögtle in the project B04.
Congratulations Dr. Nandy! 🌟
@sgbmfreiburg.bsky.social
@biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social
Arpita, a SGBM SFB 1381 fellow, was supervised by our PI Nora Vögtle in the project B04.
Congratulations Dr. Nandy! 🌟
@sgbmfreiburg.bsky.social
@biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social
We are excited to share that one of the recipients of this years "Wübben Student Grant" is master student Frédéric Sonak, who is working on a collaborative project between our SFB 1381 projects B10 (Claudine Kraft) and project YIG05 (Viviane Timmermann).
Congratulations, Frédéric!
Congratulations, Frédéric!
55 outstanding students begin their final year of study with a Wübben Grant of €1,000 per month for one year. The grantees come from 12 countries, more than half of them are women. The programs of study reflect the breadth of cutting-edge research.
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#AcademicSky
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#AcademicSky
October 10, 2025 at 9:50 AM
We are excited to share that one of the recipients of this years "Wübben Student Grant" is master student Frédéric Sonak, who is working on a collaborative project between our SFB 1381 projects B10 (Claudine Kraft) and project YIG05 (Viviane Timmermann).
Congratulations, Frédéric!
Congratulations, Frédéric!
A big thank you to the organizers — including members of our SFB 1381 — for fostering such an inspiring, interdisciplinary exchange of ideas. Events like this truly highlight the power of collaboration across scientific fields!
The Theory of Living Systems Symposium at @uni-freiburg.de's Institute of Physics highlighted cutting-edge research where #physics meets the #LifeSciences.
Co-organized by #CIBSS members, it gathered leading theoreticians to discuss physics-driven approaches to understanding living systems.
Co-organized by #CIBSS members, it gathered leading theoreticians to discuss physics-driven approaches to understanding living systems.
October 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
A big thank you to the organizers — including members of our SFB 1381 — for fostering such an inspiring, interdisciplinary exchange of ideas. Events like this truly highlight the power of collaboration across scientific fields!
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Look at this nice cover: beautiful archaella, image made by @sshamphavi.bsky.social !
Thanks also to Marta Rodeiguez for keeping the EM im shape in @ottlab.bsky.social lab!
At @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social at @uni-freiburg.de @sfb1381.bsky.social @cibss.bsky.social
Thanks also to Marta Rodeiguez for keeping the EM im shape in @ottlab.bsky.social lab!
At @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social at @uni-freiburg.de @sfb1381.bsky.social @cibss.bsky.social
Some keen Observations in Our October issue!
🦠 Cancer microbiome
🌊 Marine microbes in warming oceans
🌐 broad-range phages
🧬 genetically minimised Salmonella
🔧 Viral infection mechanisms
🧪 Oxaloacetate antiviral defence
and more, here: www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
🦠 Cancer microbiome
🌊 Marine microbes in warming oceans
🌐 broad-range phages
🧬 genetically minimised Salmonella
🔧 Viral infection mechanisms
🧪 Oxaloacetate antiviral defence
and more, here: www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
October 2, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Look at this nice cover: beautiful archaella, image made by @sshamphavi.bsky.social !
Thanks also to Marta Rodeiguez for keeping the EM im shape in @ottlab.bsky.social lab!
At @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social at @uni-freiburg.de @sfb1381.bsky.social @cibss.bsky.social
Thanks also to Marta Rodeiguez for keeping the EM im shape in @ottlab.bsky.social lab!
At @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social at @uni-freiburg.de @sfb1381.bsky.social @cibss.bsky.social
A big thank you to the external speakers, the poster presenters from our SFB, our central project Z01 for hosting and all attendees for active participation - the symposium was an engaging and inspiring event!
@fabianfrommelt.bsky.social
@degradomics.bsky.social
@fabianfrommelt.bsky.social
@degradomics.bsky.social
In last´s weeks SFB 1381 Mini Symposium “Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Dynamic Protein Machineries”, experts in the field (Florian Stengel, Ilka Wittig, Fabian Frommelt) shared their recent scientific findings, sparking stimulating discussions, which were continued in a lively poster session.
October 1, 2025 at 9:16 AM
A big thank you to the external speakers, the poster presenters from our SFB, our central project Z01 for hosting and all attendees for active participation - the symposium was an engaging and inspiring event!
@fabianfrommelt.bsky.social
@degradomics.bsky.social
@fabianfrommelt.bsky.social
@degradomics.bsky.social
In last´s weeks SFB 1381 Mini Symposium “Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Dynamic Protein Machineries”, experts in the field (Florian Stengel, Ilka Wittig, Fabian Frommelt) shared their recent scientific findings, sparking stimulating discussions, which were continued in a lively poster session.
October 1, 2025 at 9:11 AM
In last´s weeks SFB 1381 Mini Symposium “Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Dynamic Protein Machineries”, experts in the field (Florian Stengel, Ilka Wittig, Fabian Frommelt) shared their recent scientific findings, sparking stimulating discussions, which were continued in a lively poster session.
Wishing the new CIBSS leadership team all the best – we are looking forward to continue our successful collaboration!
New leadership for #CIBSS!
Welcome Sonja-Verena Albers as new spokesperson & congrats to Claudine Kraft on her confirmation. Together with Jürgen Kleine-Vehn, they’ll lead CIBSS into its #NextChapter – following Wolfgang Driever & Carola Hunte.
More info: kurzlinks.de/fkv4
Welcome Sonja-Verena Albers as new spokesperson & congrats to Claudine Kraft on her confirmation. Together with Jürgen Kleine-Vehn, they’ll lead CIBSS into its #NextChapter – following Wolfgang Driever & Carola Hunte.
More info: kurzlinks.de/fkv4
September 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Wishing the new CIBSS leadership team all the best – we are looking forward to continue our successful collaboration!
Congratulations 🎉 to our project A01 for their latest publication:
The team of our SFB 1381 PI Sonja Albers identified the archaellum machinery in several bacterial strains and solved the structure of the bacterial archaellum from Litorilinea aerophila using cryoEM.
The team of our SFB 1381 PI Sonja Albers identified the archaellum machinery in several bacterial strains and solved the structure of the bacterial archaellum from Litorilinea aerophila using cryoEM.
We are grateful for funding by the @dfg.de in the framework of the @sfb1381.bsky.social
Moreover, we are thankful for the excellent cooperation with the CryoEM Facility at the @uni-freiburg.de
Moreover, we are thankful for the excellent cooperation with the CryoEM Facility at the @uni-freiburg.de
September 18, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Congratulations 🎉 to our project A01 for their latest publication:
The team of our SFB 1381 PI Sonja Albers identified the archaellum machinery in several bacterial strains and solved the structure of the bacterial archaellum from Litorilinea aerophila using cryoEM.
The team of our SFB 1381 PI Sonja Albers identified the archaellum machinery in several bacterial strains and solved the structure of the bacterial archaellum from Litorilinea aerophila using cryoEM.
Joint CIBSS/ SFB 1381 seminar today!
TODAY at 12:00 ➡️ We are are excited to host Dr. Tanja Mittag in our Seminar Series! @stjuderesearch.bsky.social @sfb1381.bsky.social @mpi-ie.bsky.social www.stjude.org/research/lab...
September 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Joint CIBSS/ SFB 1381 seminar today!
The program for our Mini-Symposium on September 23 is now finalized and the registration deadline has been extended to September 5!
Poster slots are still available!
Want to join us?
Just drop a line: sfb1381@biochemie.uni-freiburg.de
@biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social
@degradomics.bsky.social
Poster slots are still available!
Want to join us?
Just drop a line: sfb1381@biochemie.uni-freiburg.de
@biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social
@degradomics.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 6:54 AM
The program for our Mini-Symposium on September 23 is now finalized and the registration deadline has been extended to September 5!
Poster slots are still available!
Want to join us?
Just drop a line: sfb1381@biochemie.uni-freiburg.de
@biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social
@degradomics.bsky.social
Poster slots are still available!
Want to join us?
Just drop a line: sfb1381@biochemie.uni-freiburg.de
@biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social
@degradomics.bsky.social
Heartiest congratulations 🎉 to our SFB 1381 Young Investigator Grantee Viviane Timmermann, who has received six years of highly competitive funding from the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung to lead her own independent research group!
www.sfb1381.uni-freiburg.de/news/sfb-138...
www.sfb1381.uni-freiburg.de/news/sfb-138...
August 29, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Heartiest congratulations 🎉 to our SFB 1381 Young Investigator Grantee Viviane Timmermann, who has received six years of highly competitive funding from the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung to lead her own independent research group!
www.sfb1381.uni-freiburg.de/news/sfb-138...
www.sfb1381.uni-freiburg.de/news/sfb-138...
Curious about what we’re working on in our SFB „Protein Machineries“ and what drives us? Watch our video to find out!
Video: Jürgen Gocke
videoportal.vm.uni-freiburg.de/video/crc-13...
Video: Jürgen Gocke
videoportal.vm.uni-freiburg.de/video/crc-13...
CRC 1381 - Medien - Videoportal Universität Freiburg
CRC 1381 "Dynamic Organisation of Cellular Protein Machineries", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), spokesperson Prof. Dr. Chris Meisinger
...
videoportal.vm.uni-freiburg.de
August 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Curious about what we’re working on in our SFB „Protein Machineries“ and what drives us? Watch our video to find out!
Video: Jürgen Gocke
videoportal.vm.uni-freiburg.de/video/crc-13...
Video: Jürgen Gocke
videoportal.vm.uni-freiburg.de/video/crc-13...
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Happy to see #ComFB role on motility machinery is expanding to #Bacillus via #cdiGMP signaling
A great collaboration w/ Dubnau Lab w/ contribution from us on the protein biochem part @hhu.de & @cmfi.bsky.social
Funding @dfg.de @sfb1381.bsky.social @mibinet.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A great collaboration w/ Dubnau Lab w/ contribution from us on the protein biochem part @hhu.de & @cmfi.bsky.social
Funding @dfg.de @sfb1381.bsky.social @mibinet.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
c-di-GMP-Dependent Regulation of Motility by comFB and comFC
ComFB is encoded in the comF operon of Bacillus subtilis, situated between the genes for ComFA and ComFC. The latter two proteins are essential for natural transformation, whereas ComFB is dispensable...
www.biorxiv.org
August 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Happy to see #ComFB role on motility machinery is expanding to #Bacillus via #cdiGMP signaling
A great collaboration w/ Dubnau Lab w/ contribution from us on the protein biochem part @hhu.de & @cmfi.bsky.social
Funding @dfg.de @sfb1381.bsky.social @mibinet.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A great collaboration w/ Dubnau Lab w/ contribution from us on the protein biochem part @hhu.de & @cmfi.bsky.social
Funding @dfg.de @sfb1381.bsky.social @mibinet.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
What an amazing story by our SFB 1381 project A01- supported by projects Z01 and Z03!
Who would have thought I would ever publish an article about a bacterium?
But here it is, but of course only because Litorilinea aerophilum actually has an archaellum!
Here is what we learned about its cell structure and other surface appendages:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
But here it is, but of course only because Litorilinea aerophilum actually has an archaellum!
Here is what we learned about its cell structure and other surface appendages:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Filamentous growth, cell envelope architecture, and surface appendages of a member of the Chloroflexota, Litorilinea aerophila
Litorilinea aerophila, a filamentous bacterium of the phylum Chloroflexota (class Caldilineae), exhibits unique morphological and cell envelope features that challenge traditional bacterial models. In...
www.biorxiv.org
August 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
What an amazing story by our SFB 1381 project A01- supported by projects Z01 and Z03!
Our SFB 1381/SGBM student Claudia Juraske successfully defending her thesis- congratulations and all the best for the future!
Congrats to Claudia Juraske, who defended her PhD on August 8th under Prof. Wolfgang Schamel!
Within @sfb1381.bsky.social, her research focused on T-cell receptor assembly dynamics and their engineering for cancer immunotherapy.
All the best, Dr. Juraske! 🎓👏
Within @sfb1381.bsky.social, her research focused on T-cell receptor assembly dynamics and their engineering for cancer immunotherapy.
All the best, Dr. Juraske! 🎓👏
August 18, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Our SFB 1381/SGBM student Claudia Juraske successfully defending her thesis- congratulations and all the best for the future!
It's time again for another installment of our "SFB 1381´s Female Mind" series, in which we talked to Sukanya Guhathakurta, one of our YIGs.
Find the answers to the three questions we asked her on our web page: www.sfb1381.uni-freiburg.de/sfb-1381s-fe...
#wominstem
@mpi-ie.bsky.social
Find the answers to the three questions we asked her on our web page: www.sfb1381.uni-freiburg.de/sfb-1381s-fe...
#wominstem
@mpi-ie.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
It's time again for another installment of our "SFB 1381´s Female Mind" series, in which we talked to Sukanya Guhathakurta, one of our YIGs.
Find the answers to the three questions we asked her on our web page: www.sfb1381.uni-freiburg.de/sfb-1381s-fe...
#wominstem
@mpi-ie.bsky.social
Find the answers to the three questions we asked her on our web page: www.sfb1381.uni-freiburg.de/sfb-1381s-fe...
#wominstem
@mpi-ie.bsky.social
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Interested in mass spectrometric analysis of protein machineries?
Join us at our Mini-Symposium taking place September 23!
For registration (free of charge, but mandatory), please contact sfb1381@biochemie.uni-freiburg until August 15th.
@biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social
Join us at our Mini-Symposium taking place September 23!
For registration (free of charge, but mandatory), please contact sfb1381@biochemie.uni-freiburg until August 15th.
@biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Interested in mass spectrometric analysis of protein machineries?
Join us at our Mini-Symposium taking place September 23!
For registration (free of charge, but mandatory), please contact sfb1381@biochemie.uni-freiburg until August 15th.
@biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social
Join us at our Mini-Symposium taking place September 23!
For registration (free of charge, but mandatory), please contact sfb1381@biochemie.uni-freiburg until August 15th.
@biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social
Artificial intelligence holds great potential for research—but how can it be used most effectively?
To explore this question, our SFB organized a workshop lately, led by our PI Viviane Timmermann.
Participants left inspired and equipped with new strategies to integrate AI into their research!
To explore this question, our SFB organized a workshop lately, led by our PI Viviane Timmermann.
Participants left inspired and equipped with new strategies to integrate AI into their research!
August 1, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Artificial intelligence holds great potential for research—but how can it be used most effectively?
To explore this question, our SFB organized a workshop lately, led by our PI Viviane Timmermann.
Participants left inspired and equipped with new strategies to integrate AI into their research!
To explore this question, our SFB organized a workshop lately, led by our PI Viviane Timmermann.
Participants left inspired and equipped with new strategies to integrate AI into their research!