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Summer Symposium 2025: Nucleotide Switches

Our Summer Symposium this year will again take place in the lecture hall and foyer of the SYNMIKRO building. Attendance is free, but registration required for the organisation of dinner and lunch. Please visit the registration portal at: https://eventfrog.de/de/p/wissenschaft-und-technik/grk-2937-summer-symposium-2025-nucleotide-switches-7335590098610749181.html

Veranstaltungsdaten

10. July 2025 13:00 – 11. July 2025 15:00
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SYNMIKRO Lecture Hall

THURSDAY, 10 JULY

 

13:00      Welcome

13:15      Patrick Viollier - Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, University of Geneva
                The sweet spot: specificity of cytidyltransferases in flagellum sialylation and assembly

14:00      Anke Treuner-Lange - Department of Ecophysiology, MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
               Structure analysis of the Type IVa pilus machine from Myxococcus xanthus reveals a novel component

14:30      Liujuan Zheng - Bange Lab, Marburg University
               A protein adaptor mediating Ap4A-dependent control of protein acetylation

15:00      Coffee break

15:30      Berenike Maier - Institute for Biological Physics, University of Cologne
                Fitness effects of horizontal gene transfer 

16:15      Tomas Pascoa - Schuller Lab, Marburg University
                Flavin-based aromatic degradation by the electron-bifurcating benzoyl-CoA reductase

16:45      Coffee break

17:15      Anna Lena Jung - Institute for Lung Research, Marburg University
                Bacterial extracellular vesicles as protective decoys: a novel mechanism of resistance

17:45      Jörg Vogel - Institute of Molecular Infection Biology, University of Würzburg
                Programmable RNA antibiotics reveal essential genes in phage-host interplay

18:30      Poster session by the doctoral students of GRK 2937

                 Warm buffet, get-together

21:00      End of day 1

 

FRIDAY, 11 JULY

 

09:00      Claudia Höbartner - Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Würzburg 
                Posttranscriptional RNA modification using methyltransferase ribozymes

09:45      Torsten Waldminghaus - Molecular Microbiology, Technical University Darmstadt
                From bacterial chromosome biology to plasmid DNA production

10:30      Coffee break

11:00      Michel Brück - GRK 2937, Randau Lab, Marburg University
                Functional characterisation of NUDIX hydrolases and their substrates in Sulfolobus acidocaldarius

11:30      Valérie de Crécy-Lagard - Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida
                Navigating paralogs, pathway holes, and functional divergence

12:15      Closing note 

12:30      Poster session by the doctoral students of GRK 2937

                 Snacks, get-together

15:00      End of symposium

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