The wait is finally over! 20th Horizons in Molecular Biology will take place from the 11th to the 14th of September, 2023 in Göttingen, Germany! Visit horizons.uni-goettingen.de to register NOW!🥳

This one was special! Very proud of our work, despite the long journey and dealing with most hostile reviews ever received. Major credit to Di Wu, Franziska Finke, Reza Mehdipour, and Hummer Lab

I have the honor and pleasure of co-organizing the EMBO workshop on Molecular Biology of Mitochondrial Gene Maintenance & Expression, with an amazing lineup of speakers! Join us in Poland from May 19-23! Early-carreer researchers especially encouraged! meetings.embo.org/event/24-mitoc…

Online Now: Structure of the multi-subunit chloroplast RNA polymerase dlvr.it/T3R9YG

Happy to share the results of a great collaboration with Thomas Pfannschmidt (LU Hannover), led by the amazing paulafprado and Frederik Ahrens. Together, we determined the structure of the multi-subunit plastid-encoded RNA polymerase from chloroplasts! cell.com/molecular-cell… 🧵

Excited to share our work showing how the Integrator complex terminates RNA polymerase II (Pol II) transcription i.e. removal of Pol II from the DNA template Published in nature nature.com/articles/s4158… Many thanks to my mentor Patrick Cramer Patrick Cramer for unwavering support

Happy to share a new preprint, in which we describe the mechanism of human tRNA 3' processing. We show why the RNase Z ELAC2 acts as a monomer in the nucleus, but forms a multi-subunit complex in mitochondria. Plase see 🧵 by Arjun Bhatta for details! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We are happy to announce that this year's Horizons in Molecular Biology will be held in Göttingen from September 9th to 12th. Register for Horizons 2024 now through: survey.academiccloud.de/index.php/4775…. #Horizons2024 #MolecularBiology #ScienceConference

Five days of excellent lectures, poster sessions, scientific discussions, and networking opportunities took place at the #EMBO Workshop on Molecular Biology of Mitochondrial Gene Maintenance and Expression 👉 ibb.edu.pl/spotkanie/embo…

Check out our latest pre-print with Hauke Hillen and Ana Vučković, where we show that FASTKD5 joins RNase P and RNase Z in processing mitochondrial RNA. FASTKD5 processes mitochondrial pre-mRNAs at non-canonical cleavage sites biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I am excited to join Caltech Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Caltech as an Assistant Professor this November! The Fianu Lab will be a welcoming space for anyone interested in gene activity and genome stability. bit.ly/47gH9I7 We are looking for team members at all levels—please reach out!

MicroRNA genes have evolved and expanded within the genomes of multicellular organisms for over 500 million years. Today, we know that there are more than a thousand genes for different microRNAs in humans, and that gene regulation by microRNA – discovered by this year’s