Guest Lecture Series

Prof. Dr. Gert Bange
Are you stressed? Towards function and mechanism of the mysterious di-adenosine tetraphosphate (Ap4A)

Prof. Dr. Andreas Krueger
miRNA-mediated control of lymphocyte development: from function to inferring context-dependent targeting rules

Prof. Dr. Helle Ulrich
Mind the gap – detecting, signalling & processing of lesions during DNA replication

Dr. Kathi Zarnack
High-throughput mutagenesis identifies mutations and RNA-binding proteins controlling CD19 splicing and CART-19 therapy resistance

Dr. Kathrin Leppek
Transcript-specific translation by the ribosome

Prof. Dr. Igor Ulitsky
Principles governing subcellular distribution and functions of long RNAs in mammalian cells

Prof. Dr. Dierk Niessing
The DNA/RNA-binding protein PURA and the neurodevelopmental PURA Syndrome

Dr. Maximilian Reuter
One ring to rule them all: MCM2-7 loading and initial DNA melting at base-pair resolution

Dr. Phillip Grote
Genome Regulation by LncRNA Genes in Cardiovascular Development

Prof. Dr. Mathias Schaefer
tRNA Fragments: Small RNAs with Physiological Roles or Just By-Products of RNA Turnover?

Dr. Katrin Fröhlich
RNA-mediated gene regulation in Caulobacter crescentus

Dr. Sina Wittmann
Surface condensation of pioneer transcription factors on DNA

Dr. Katharina Höfer
Surprises in bacterial RNA Biology - a New Role for an Old Coenzyme

Dr. Matthew McIntosh
The discovery of NynA - from conserved hypothetical protein to regulatory RNase

Prof. Dr. Libo Krasny
Gene expression, RNA polymerase, and cell-to-cell communication in Gram-positive bacteria

Prof. Dr. John Ziebuhr
Coronaviruses: unique characteristics of a family of plus-strand RNA viruses with exceptionally large genomes

Dr. Dmitri Andreev
Investigation of unconventional mRNA translation events with ribosome profiling

Prof. Dr. Stefan Janssen
Algorithms for structured RNA

Dr. Andreas Schlundt
Negotiation of mRNA fate: Sequence and structure requirements of 3‘-UTR cis-elements

Prof. Dr. Renee Schröder
Ribo-selfregulation

Prof. Dr. Helge Großhans
Keeping Time with RNA

Prof. Dr. Dagmar Klostermeier
The mRNA 5’-untranslated region determines the helicase activity of the eukaryotic translation initiation factor eIF4A by modulating its conformational cycle

Prof. Dr. Jingyi Hui
Misregulation of alternative pre-mRNA splicing in mouse models of Rett syndrome

Prof. Dr. Holger Stark
High-resolution structure determination of large and dynamic macromolecular complexes

Dr. Minni Anko
Circular RNAs, RNA-binding proteomes, epitranscriptomics and translation cycle dynamics

Prof. Dr. Thomas Preiss
From cells to systems – Deciphering RNA regulation in stem cells and cancer

Prof. Dr. Ralf Jansen
RNA-BioID: Mapping the interactome of transport RNP complexes

Dr. Susanne Kramer
A unique way of mRNA metabolism in trypanosomes: co-transcriptional nuclear export and a highly unusual mRNA decapping enzyme

Prof. Dr. Dorothee Staiger
Towards posttranscriptional networks in Arabidopsis

Prof. Dr. Zefeng Wang (Mercator Fellow)
Design artificial protein factors to specifically modulate or edit RNAs

Prof. Dr. Manfred Heinlein
The central role of dsRNA in plant-virus interactions

Prof. Dr. Ed Hurt
How eukaryotes make their ribosomes

Prof. Dr. Georg Stöcklin
Posttranscriptional control of gene expression by protein acetylation

Prof. Dr. Zefeng Wang (Mercator Fellow)
Towards a splicing code- regulation and modulation of alternative splicing

Dr. Bene Beckmann
Towards cross-species RNA-protein interactions in bacterial-infected host cells

Dr. Markus Fricke
RNA secondary structures in mRNAs

Prof. Dr. Julia Kehr
Mobile RNAs and systemic signalling

Prof. Dr. Silke Robatzek
How PRR signaling regulates immunity