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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Do you know a young researcher with an outstanding PhD thesis or publication in #Biochemistry? The @gdch.de Division of Biochemistry #YoungScientistAward is open for nominations. Help us recognize the field's next leaders. 📅 Deadline: 31 August 🌐 Link: en.gdch.de/network-s... #ChemSky #ChemBio

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The #YoungScientistAward of the @gdch.de Division of Biochemistry is open for applications and nominations! If you are or have supervised a PhD with an outstanding publication or PhD thesis, make sure to check out the award! en.gdch.de/network-s... #ChemSky #ChemBio #Biochemistry

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

📢 Call for #Biochemistry excellence! The @gdch.de Division of Biochemistry is seeking candidates for the #YoungScientistAward. We recognize outstanding PhD theses and publications. ✅ Self-nominations & PI nominations welcome ⏳ Deadline: Aug 31 🔗 en.gdch.de/network-s... #ChemBio #ChemSky

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The #YoungScientistAward of the @gdch.de Division of Biochemistry is now open for applications and nominations! If you are or have supervised a PhD with an outstanding publication or PhD thesis, make sure to check out the award! en.gdch.de/network-s... #ChemSky #ChemBio #Biochemistry

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Join us as member of the Division of Biochemistry of the @gdch.de! - A vibrant network of biochemists - Connection with international experts - Reduced fees for division conferences - Support of junior scientists via travel grants and prizes en.gdch.de/network-stru... #Biochemistry #ChemBio #ChemSky

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

#Biochemistry2026 comes to an end! We especially want to thank our organizers, Claudia Höbartner (@chlab.bsky.social) and Kathrin Lang (@klanglab.bsky.social), for an amazing job and all participants for making this a great conference. (1/2) #Biochemistry #Chemistry #ChemBio CC: @gdch.de

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Congratulations to the winners of the poster awards at #Biochemistry2026: Felix Veitl Stefan Jungwirth Evgeniia Dorinova We thank the Royal Society of Chemistry and Wiley for sponsoring the poster prizes! The poster awards were awarded for these posters: (1/4) #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

In the final talk of #Biochemistry2026, Stefan Raunser (@raunser-lab.bsky.social) gave an exciting overview of his group's research on "Unlocking the secrets of the cytoskeleton and heart muscle". www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio #Structure #cryoEM

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

"Cryo-EM Structures of Higher-Order Gephyrin Oligomers Revealing Principles of Inhibitory Postsynaptic Scaffold Organization" Diego Ortiz-López from the group of Hermann Schindelin (@en-hxnu-enment.bsky.social) gave an great talk on this topic at #Biochemistry2026. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Julia Bartoli gave an insightful talk at #Biochemistry2026 about the topic "A host tRNA Drives Assembly of a Cytoplasmic Viral Transcription Machine". www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Biochemistry #cryoEM #ChemSky #ChemBio #tRNA #RNA #Virus @gdch.de

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

"Dynamics of A-Minor Interactions in the Bacterial Ribosome" Christian Steinmetzger (@stonebutcher.bsky.social) talked at #Biochemistry2026 about his work on this topic in the group of @katjapetzold.bsky.social. #Biochemistry #Ribosome #ChemSky #ChemBio #NMR CC: @gdch.de

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Carine Tisné gave an insightful talk at #Biochemistry2026. She talked about "Advances in the structural and functional understanding of m1A tRNA modification". pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #Biochemistry #RNA #tRNA #ChemSky #Biochemistry #Methylation CC: @gdch.de

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

"Nucleotidyltransferases and nucleotide-based second messengers" Carina Baer de Oliveira Mann (@oliveiramann.bsky.social) gave an insightful talk on this topic at #Biochemistry2026. febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #Biochemistry #SecondMessenger #CyclicNucleotide CC: @gdch.de

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Great talk by Kathrin Leppek (@katleppek.bsky.social) at #Biochemistry2026. She talked about her work on the topic "Synthetic circRNAs employ IRES activity for translation in cells and in cell-free translation systems". link.springer.com/article/10.1... #ChemSky #Biochemistry #ChemBio #RNA #IRES

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Interesting talk by Sabine Schneider (@sabschn.bsky.social) at #Biochemistry2026. She talked about her group's work on "Novel TET3 enzymes for next-generation epigenetic sequencing". pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #Epigenetics #Biochemistry #ChemBio #ChemSky #Sequencing #TET CC: @gdch.de

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The third day of #Biochemistry2026 is off to a great start with an inspiring lecture by Schraga Schwartz. He talked about "RNA at the Edge: Extreme Biology as a Lens on RNA Modification Principles". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio #RNA #extremophiles #Archaea

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Congratulations to Claudia Höbartner (@chlab.bsky.social) on being awarded the very prestigious Albrecht-Kossel-Preis by the @gdch.de at #Biochemistry2026! Prof. Höbartner receives this award for the first structure of a DNAzyme and the development of methyl transferase ribozymes. (1/2)

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

We are excited that we could today award four Young Scientist Awards for outstanding publications and dissertations over the last two years. The awardees are Johannes Morstein, Sarah Emmert, Frederik Schmidt and Lukas Zeisel. Congratulations to all awardees! (1/3) #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Alexandra Deliz Liang gave an exciting talk at #Biochemistry2026. She talked about her group's research on "Metalloenzyme engineering with genetic code expansion". www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio #ProteinEngineering #Metalloenzyme CC: @gdch.de

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Max Heckelmann from the group of Don Hilvert presented his research at #Biochemistry2026. He talked about the "Generation and Evolution of de novo Designed Chorismate Mutases". #ProteinDesign #Evolution #Biochemistry #ChemBio #ChemSky

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Can proteins with a certain function be designed from scratch? Interesting talk by Birte Höcker at #Biochemistry2026. She talked about her group's research on "Design for function - building enzymes from scratch". www.nature.com/articles/s41... #ProteinDesign #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio #AI

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Xinlai Cheng gave an interesting talk at #Biochemistry2026. He talked about his group's research into "Targeting the Spliceosomal Protein USP39 Through Allosteric Ligands and PROTAC-Induced Degradation". onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #Splicing #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Insightful lecture by Thorsten Berg at #Biochemistry2026. He talked about his group's work on "Biaryl Phosphates and Phosphonates as Selective Inhibitors of the Transcription Factor STAT4". onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ChemSky #Biochemistry #ChemBio #DrugDiscovery

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Interesting talk by Clemens Richert at #Biochemistry2026. He talked about "Nucleoside Phosporamidates with Roles in Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry". #Virus #RNA #Nucleotides #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio #MedChem #MedicinalChemistry CC: @gdch.de

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Interesting talk by Pierre Stallforth at #Biochemistry2026. "Natural Products from Interacting Microorganisms and Ancient Microbiomes". pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #NaturalProducts #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

@stephanhacker2.bsky.social talked at #Biochemistry2026 about "Profiling the proteome-wide selectivity of diverse electrophiles". www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Biochemistry #ChemBio #Chemistry

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Akane Kawamura (@kawamuragroup.bsky.social) gave an insightful presentation at #Biochemistry2026. She talked about her group's work on "The Expanding Biochemistry of JmjC Demethylases". onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio #DrugDiscovery

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Monika Witzenberger talked at #Biochemistry about her postdoctoral work in the group of Schraga Schwartz: "An expanded enzymatic toolkit for recording RNA interaction and localization history" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #RNA #Biochemistry #ChemBio #ChemSky CC: @gdch.de

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

The second day of #Biochemistry2026 gets on the way with an exciting talk by Satpal Virdee (@e3chembio.bsky.social). "Next-generation Activity-Based Probes for Ubiquitin and Ubiquitin-like E3 Ligases". www.nature.com/articles/nch... #ChemBio #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ubiquitin #TPD #degradation

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Interesting talk by @stephanhammer.bsky.social at #Biochemistry2026. He talked about hir group's research into "In Silico-Guided Evolution of Transferase Families for Haloalkane-Driven Selective Alkylation". #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio #Evolution

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Interesting talk by Max Häussler at #Biochemistry2026. He talked about "Data Processing and Kinetic Modelling of HPLC Reaction Time Courses with EnzymeML Tools". enzymeml.org #Biochemistry #Bioinformatics #Enzymes #Kinetics

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Juliane Breiltgens from the group of Michael Müller presented her PhD research at #Biochemistry2026: "Chemoselectivity of aromatic (di-)methylation by SAM-dependent C-methyltransferases" pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Interesting talk by Mehmet Erguven from the @rentmeisterlab.bsky.social at #Biochemistry2026. He talked about "Artificial methionine guanosyltransferase for cofactor engineering". chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio #SAM

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Jennifer Andexer (@andexerlab.bsky.social) introduced the session on S-adenosyl methionine at #Biochemistry2026 and then gave an insightful lecture: "How to turn an N into an O: Controlling the chemoselectivity of SAM-dependent methyltransferases". #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio @gdch.de

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Great talk by Wilfred van der Donk at #Biochemistry2026. He talked about "Peptide-Aminoacyl-tRNA Ligases in Natural Product Biosynthesis". www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio #Peptides #tRNA

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Interesting talk by Jürgen Seibel at #Biochemistry2026. He talked about "Enzyme and Substrate Engineering for novel CAZymes activities". #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio #Glycotime #Lipidtime

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

@mariaweyh.bsky.social from the @klanglab.bsky.social gave an interesting talk at #Biochemistry2026 under the title: "Accessing defined protein-protein conjugates via in-cellulo native chemical ligation". #Biochemistry #Chemistry #ChemBio #Ligation #Peptides #Proteins

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Kevin Franzeck (@franzeck.bsky.social) of the group of Tobias Erb gave an interesting talk at #Biochemistry2026 with the title: "Characterization and growth-coupled selection of an extant small subunit-independent Form I Rubisco". #Biochemistry #ChemSky #Plants #Rubisco

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

#Biochemistry2026 is off to a great start with an insightful lecture by @helgebode.bsky.social, who talked about "Making peptides the nonribosomal way". #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

The #Biochemistry2026 conference "From chemical structures to biological functions" gets on the way with the opening words by Claudia Höbartner (@chlab.bsky.social). We are looking forward to three days of exciting #Biochemistry and #ChemBio research! www.gdch.de/biochemistry... CC: @gdch.de

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

We are very excited to be hosting #Biochemistry2026 in Würzburg in the coming 3 days. We have a great program of speakers waiting for you! If you are on the way to Würzburg, share your excitement with #Biochemistry2026! (1/3) www.gdch.de/biochemistry... #ChemSky #ChemBio #Biochemistry @gdch.de

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Are you interested in cutting edge #Biochemistry and #ChemBio? Check out our #Biochemistry2026 meeting in Würzburg from March 16th to 18th. Deadlines for reduced early bird registration fee and abstracts have been extended to January 28th. veranstaltungen.gdch.de/microsite/in...

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

If you are a #PhD candidate and want to attend #Biochemistry2026 (veranstaltungen.gdch...), make sure to apply for our meeting award, which comes with 500 € for the attendance and a free year of membership in @gdchbiochem.bsky.social en.gdch.de/network-s...

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

📢 Deadline Extended to January 15th, 2026! Apply for our Meeting Award to get: ✅ 500 € grant for the #Biochemistry2026 conference ✅ 1 year of free Fachgruppe Biochemie membership Apply now: en.gdch.de/network-s... Share with a #ECR who needs to see this! #Chemistry #ChemBio #PhD @gdch.de

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Are you interested in cutting-edge #Biochemistry and #ChemBio? Join us for the GDCh #Biochemistry2026 conference in Würzburg on March 16th to 18th, 2026. Registration is now open and you can submit an abstract until January 10th, 2026: veranstaltungen.gdch... (1/2)

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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

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