On March 26th, 2021 Mateusz Mieczkowski successfully defended his PhD on "Structural investigations of functional nucleic acids". Congratulations and all best wishes for a bright future!
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On the track of evolution: Our discovery of the first methyltransferase ribozyme - a catalytically active RNA that specifically attaches methyl groups to other RNAs - was recently published in "Nature".
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RSC Chemical Biology was launched in 2020 and is dedicated to publishing and disseminating the most exceptionally significant, breakthrough research at the interface of chemistry and biology.
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Dr. Christian Steinmetzger and Dr. Mohammad (Farbod) Ghaem Maghami
We wish them both a successful future!
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On July 10, 2020 we celebrated our two excellent graduates Christian and Farbod and the 3rd anniversary of our group joining the Institute of Organic Chemistry in Würzburg. It was a great evening hike to the Castle of Würzburg.
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On July 6, 2020 Farbod successfully defended his PhD thesis. The title of his work is "Development, characterization, and application of RNA catalysts for in situ labeling of target RNA molecules". Congratulations! Farbod will continue working with us as a postdoctoral researcher on RNA catalysts. We wish him a lot of success in his further career!
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On July 3, 2020 Christian Steinmetzer successfully defended his PhD thesis. The title of his work is "Fluorogenic aptamers and fluorescent nucleoside analogs as probes for RNA structure and function". Congratulations! Christian will move to Sweden for postdoctoral research at the Karolinska Institute. We wish him a lot of success and a great time!
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Mohammad (Farbod) Ghaem Maghami was awarded a poster prize at the RNA Society Meeting 2019 in Krakow, Poland for his poster on "Ribozyme-catalyzed site-spedific labeling of RNA"
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Die neuen Mitglieder der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW) wurden am 10 Mai. in Wien begrüßt.
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Two posters featuring our group's work on fluorescent nucleic acids were presented at ChemSyStM 2018 by Christian Steinmetzger and Julia Dietzsch.
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Our recently published paper is highlighted on the cover of Angewandte Chemie International Edition
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Welcome to our new group members Anam and Carolin!
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Our most recent paper reporting deoxyribozymes that detect m6A in RNA was just published in Angewandte Chemie.
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Julia and Farbod attended the DNG PhD Seminar in Bad Herrenalb
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