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The Polacek in collaboration with the Limbach lab investigated the role of the ho⁵C2501 23S rRNA modification of the E. Coli ribosome and found out that under oxidative stress benefits the bacteria by reducing protein synthesis. Their findings have been published in an article in Nucleic Acids…

We welcome Maria Escura Pérez (Allain lab, ETHZ) as the new PhD student representative and Esther Griesbach (Chao lab, FMI) as the new Postdoc representative of the NCCR RNA & Disease.  They succeed Esteban Finol (Allain lab, ETHZ) and Rajani Gudipatti (Grosshans lab, FMI) who stepped down as…

We would like to congratulate Stefanie Jonas (Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH Zurich) and Roger Geiger (Institute for Research in Biomedicine, USI, Bellinzona) for having been selected as EMBO Young Investigators starting from January 2022! “They have already demonstrated…

The Polacek lab discovered that a specific rRNA expansion segment of the yeast ribosome recruits three tRNA synthetases. However, deletion of this segment did neither significantly alter ribosome biogenesis & translation nor the activity of these tRNA synthetases raising the possiblity that they…

The Polymenidou lab in collaboration with the Stahlberg and Lashley groups investigated the seeding and fibril properties of two different pathological FTLD-TDP aggregates. Their findings have been published in EMBO Reports in an article entitled "FTLD-TDP assemblies seed neoaggregates with…