Following the kick-off meeting of the PhD students in May, it was the first event of the research network launched in January with an international audience. Under the title "Membranes and the lipid code", the organizers Prof. Dr. Christian Ungermann (SFB speaker, head of the Biochemistry division), Prof. Dr. Florian Fröhlich (head of the Bioanalytical Chemistry division), Dr. Lars Langemeyer (Biochemistry division) and Dr. Matthijs Kol (Molecular Cell Biology division) invited not only the members of the SFB but also external scientists who, among other things, had been entrusted with reviewing the new Collaborative Research Center in the past. Due to the pandemic, they had not yet had the opportunity to see the Biology department on site. On the second day of the symposium, all those interested were able to catch up on this during a guided tour of the Center for Cellular Nanoanalytics (CellNanOs), which, as the core infrastructure, is an important hub of the SFB's research.
A total of 16 speakers presented their scientific results in a lecture during the two-day symposium, including eleven guest speakers. Another four presentations were given by junior research group leaders Dr. Dovile Januliene, Dr. Ayelén González Montoro (both Osnabrück University), Dr. Caroline Barisch (Research Centre for Structural Biology, Hamburg) and Dr. Maria Bohnert (University of Münster). As the only doctoral student, Shirin Kappelhoff (Molecular Cell Biophysics research group, Osnabrück University) presented her research on "Structure and Regulation of GSDMD Pores at the Plasma Membrane".
Other PhD students associated with the Integrated Research Training Group (IRTG) of the Collaborative Research Center got the chance to present their research to the international audience on posters during the symposium.
The participants praised the relaxed, collegial atmosphere in which a lively scientific exchange took place. The nice weather and the good catering did the rest to make the SFB symposium a successful start for the collaboration within the Collaborative Research Center.
Guest speakers:
- Giovanni D’Angelo, Genf
- Francesca Bottanelli, Berlin
- Ulrich Brandt, Nijmegen
- Oliver Daumke, Berlin
- Rumiana Dimova, Potsdam
- Robert Ernst, Homburg
- Alf Honigmann, Dresden
- Xiaoxia Liu, Shanghai
- Stephan Sigrist, Berlin
- Thomas Wollert, Paris
- Qing Zhong, Shanghai
