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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Previous awardees are @peterseeberger.bsky.social, Annette Beck-Sickinger and Herbert Waldmann (@waldido.bsky.social). So, the bar is very high and the awardee will be in excellent company. (2/2) CC: @gfg-chembio.bsky.social, @gdchbiochem.bsky.social

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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Do you want to nominate a world-leading Chemical Biologist for a great award? The Richard Willstätter Prize for Chemical Biology that is awarded by the @dechema.bsky.social, DPhG , @gbmev.bsky.social and @gdch.de is now open for nominations until October 15th. www.dechema.de/chembio_priz... (1/2)

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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

At #Biochemistry2026 by the @gdchbiochem.bsky.social, I had the great joy to sit together with Johannes Morstein over breakfast and discuss about this topic. In the context of this discussion, he mentioned that they are also addressing this topic in his Ch/Bi145 course at Caltech. (2/13)

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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

What are the hot topics in Chemical Biology? If you want to learn about the exciting perspective of students of Johannes Morstein's (@morstein.bsky.social) Ch/Bi145 course at @caltech.edu, you can now do so in their ChemBioChem review. doi.org/10.1002/cbic... (1/13) @chemistryeurope.bsky.social

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Chemical Biology 2025: Highlights From the Ch/Bi145 Course at Caltech

This student-authored review highlights notable advances in synthetically enabled chemical biology from 2025, spanning bioconjugation and bioorthogonal chemistry, visualization and sensing, precision...

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Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) @gdch.de · 22/07/2026

Der Klaus-Grohe-Preis 2026 geht erstmals an zwei Forscher: Edward Tate (London) macht Fettmoleküle zum Werkzeug gegen Krebs, Nicolas Winssinger (Genf) baut schaltbare Wirkstoffe aus Nukleinsäuren: www.gdch.app/article/klaus-grohe-preis-2026-erstmals-an-zwei-forscher-2026-07

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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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Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) @gdch.de · 09/07/2026

🏆 €10,000 for outstanding work in medicinal and bio-related chemistry. The Chemistry Europe Award 2027 — backed by societies including the GDCh — is open for nominations. Deadline: Nov 1, 2026. More details & nomination form: ow.ly/I38050ZlUBb ChemistryViews Chemistry Europe

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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Make sure to nominate or apply for the #YoungScientistAward of @gdchbiochem.bsky.social. Deadline: August 31st CC: @gdch.de

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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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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A great opportunity to nominate or apply for a prestigious award for #PhD theses and publications in the field of #Biochemistry! #ChemSky #ChemBio

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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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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

A great opportunity to nominate PhD candidates for the #YoungScientistAward of @gdchbiochem.bsky.social! Self-nominations are also possible! #Academia #Biochemistry #ChemBio #ChemSky #Award #Nominate CC: @gdch.de, @gfg-chembio.bsky.social, @gbmev.bsky.social

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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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Kathrin Leppek @katleppek.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

She gave an amazing award lecture on "Enzymes made of DNA and RNA", with a laudatio by Andrea Rentmeister (@rentmeisterlab.bsky.social). @gdchbiochem.bsky.social @gdchbiochem.bsky.social h.de #Biochemistry #Chemistry #ChemBio #RNA #DNA #Structure

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Kathrin Leppek @katleppek.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Warmest congratulations to Claudia Höbartner on being awarded the Albrecht-Kossel-Preis! Claudia is honored for the first structure of a DNAzyme and for the development of ribozymes with methyl transferase activity.

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Kathrin Leppek @katleppek.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Thank you so much, Claudia (@chlab.bsky.social) and Kathrin (@klanglab.bsky.social), for organizing this excellent event #Biochemistry2026 in Würzburg, and for having me!

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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Congratulations to all poster award winners of #Biochemistry2026!

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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Thank you so much, @chlab.bsky.social and @klanglab.bsky.social, for putting together a truly excellent event!

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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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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

How are the receptors in the synapse organized? Diego Ortiz-López from the Hermann Schindelin group discussed his research at #Biochemistry2026. He talked about the organization of receptors in the inhibitory postsynapse by organization of gephyrin oligomers. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

How do our muscles work on a molecular scale? Stefan Raunser (@raunser-lab.bsky.social) gave an inspiring lecture at #Biochemistry2026 on his group's work, in which they elucidate this question with a combination of biochemistry and structural biology. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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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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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Installation of tRNA modifications is key to protein synthesis. In her presentation at #Biochemistry2026, Carine Tisné presented her group's in depth work on structural and functional studies to understand the underlying processes on the example of m1A. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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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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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

How can we study the function of nucleotide-based #SecondMessengers? @oliveiramann.bsky.social presented her group's exciting findings in this field at #Biochemistry2026. She e.g. presented the #cryoEM structure of OAS2, which has key #antiviral functions. linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...

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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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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

How can #epigenetic modifications of #DNA be studied to better understand #biology? In her talk at #Biochemistry2026, @sabschn.bsky.social talked about her group's exciting work on developing new TET3 enzymes that improve epigenetic sequencing. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #ChemSky #Biochemistry

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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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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

How can #extremophilic #archaea make proteins in almost boiling water? At #Biochemistry2026, Schraga Schwartz gave a lecture about the many interesting #RNA modifications these organisms are using and how they can be studied. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio

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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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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Congratulations to Claudia Höbartner (@chlab.bsky.social) on being awarded the prestigious Albrecht-Kossel-Preis of the @gdch.de at #Biochemistry2026. A very well deserved honor. Claudia gave an amazing award lecture on "Enzymes made of DNA and RNA". #Biochemistry #ChemSky #ChemBio #RNA #DNA

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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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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

How can the concentration of glutathione be monitored with subcellular precision? Congratulations to Sarah Emmert on receiving one of the @gdchbiochem.bsky.social Young Scientist Awards for her work in the lab of @locbp.bsky.social on addressing this question. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

GTPases have long been considered key examples of undruggable proteins. Congratulations to @morstein.bsky.social on winning one of the @gdchbiochem.bsky.social Young Scientist Awards for his work on identifying druggable pockets in several GTPases beyond K-Ras. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Can CO2 be fixed into useful feedstock chemicals by enzymes? Congratulations to Frederik Schmidt on being award one of the @gdchbiochem.bsky.social Young Scientist Awards for his work on the characterization of an iron nitrogenase with potential for this application. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Understanding the thioredoxin system is key to understanding cellular RedOx homeostasis. Congratulations to @lzeisel.bsky.social on being awarded one of the @gdchbiochem.bsky.social Young Scientist Awards for his work in the @thornsesholdlab.bsky.social in this field. pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Can the functions of #metalloenzymes be further improved using non-canonical amino acids? In her talk at #Biochemistry2026, Alexandra Deliz Liang talked about the usage of genetic code expansion in order to improve the activity of metalloenzymes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #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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