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Dr. Victoria Chaves Ribeiro has been awarded the renowned Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA) to carry out her research in Dr. Leidecker’s laboratory at the Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne.
The MSCA is one of the most prestigious funding schemes in Europe for early-career researchers. Funded by the European Union under Horizon Europe, the programme supports outstanding researchers from all over the world in carrying out high-impact, interdisciplinary projects at leading institutions across Europe and beyond. The fellowships aim to foster scientific excellence from a highly skilled, research-driven workforce capable of addressing emerging global challenges.
In Dr. Leidecker’s laboratory, Victoria aims to ‘shed light’ on the functions of the underexplored mono-ADP-ribosylation by developing super-resolution microscopy methods to visualize mono-ADPr localization across different cellular structures. In addition, she will explore the crosstalk between two medically relevant PARPs at the nuclear pore complex.
Professor Dr. Thorsten Hoppe, research group leader at the Institute for Genetics, receives an ERC grant of 2.5 million euros for his research project "Cellular Strategies of Protein Quality Control-Degradation" (CellularPQCD)
Dr. Orsolya Leidecker, member of the IfG, has been accepted into the renowned Emmy Noether Programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG). The programme gives exceptionally qualified early career researchers the opportunity to lead an independent junior research group and qualify for a professorship at a university. Leidecker will receive 1.9 million euros over the next 6 years.
Her group will investigate the relationship between two cellular processes that are often deregulated during ageing and cancer: maintenance of genome stability and trafficking through the nuclear pore complex.
Prof. Dr. Elena Rugarlis CRC 1218 "Regulation of cellular function by mitochondria" is also entering its third funding period. The focus here is on the "power plants of the cells". The CRC investigates how mitochondria communicate with cells and adapt their function to changing physiological conditions. A better understanding of the functional dynamics of mitochondria is an important prerequisite for targeted research into various diseases caused by mitochondrial defects. On this basis, new therapeutic strategies could be developed.
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has approved a new Collaborative Research Center in the field of mRNA research led by Prof. Dr. Andreas Beyer. The new CRC 1678 "Systemic Consequences of Fidelity Changes in mRNA and Protein Biosynthesis" investigates why more errors occur in the production of mRNAs and proteins with increasing age and how these changes affect cells and the organism as a whole.
