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RNA biochemist; like RNA structures and RBPs; Marburg University, Germany

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GBM (Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie) @gbmev.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Registration is open for the 4th GBM Compact Meeting - Focus on RNA Structure and Dynamics! September 17-18, 2026 Frankfurt (Main), Germany gbm-compact.org/gbm-compact-... Spread the word and share!
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Thomas Worzfeld @worzfeld.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Job opening: Professorship for Molecular Pharmacology at Marburg University, Germany. We seek a scientifically outstanding researcher in the field of epithelial biology in inflammation, regeneration, and/or cancer. stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/0...
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Professorship (W 2) for Molecular Pharmacology
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meisterlab.bsky.social @meisterlab.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Exciting news: Our RNA community in @uniregensburg.bsky.social is set to grow! We are opening a Junior Group Leader position in RNA biochemistry / ribonucleases / RNA stability. A great opportunity to start your own team within our collaborative RNA network. Details & application 👇
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Irene Beusch @pauletteoctopus.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
We have an open position for a #PhD student (last week to apply!) & a lab technician/TA. For more information see: www.beuschlab.org/join-us Interested in understanding post-transcriptional regulation and how #RNA #splicing decisions are made? Then take a look or share with people who might be! 🧪🧫
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RNA Splicing Lab - JOIN US
Are you interested in investigating basic mechanisms in splicing regulation and gene expression? Our research group was launched in September 2024 and is hosted at the Institute of Molecular Infection...
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PHD Comics @phdcomics.com · 25/02/2026
Undergrad translator
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Jörg Vogel @jorg-vogel-lab.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Looking for a truly unique PhD programme on RNA drugs and therapeutics? We have just opened the call for the second cohort of RNAmed-Future leaders in RNA-based medicine. More details under www.rnamed.de Please spread the word.
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GBM (Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie) @gbmev.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
GBM Lunch on Feb. 25, 2026, 12:30 PM Speaker: Francesca Tuorto (@francescatuorto.bsky.social, Universität Heidelberg) Title: “Advances in functional understanding of queuosine-tRNA modification” Chair: Nina Bonekamp (Universität Heidelberg) Organized by the GBM Young Investigators #GBMLunch
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Phil Holliger @philholliger.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
New paper from my group in @science.org : "A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesise itself and its complementary strand" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Outstanding work by @edogia.bsky.social
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Helmholtz Institute Würzburg @helmholtz-hiri.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
🧬 Shape the future of #RNA-based infection research! We are inviting applications for @helmholtz.de Junior Research Group Leader Positions (f/m/d). 👉 Apply by February 15 at www.helmholtz-hiri.de/en/jobs-tale... (1/2)
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Working at HIRI
At the HIRI, we do not just value excellent research. Short distances, an open door policy, and a good working atmosphere—this is what distinguishes us from others. Have a look at our current job…
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · 11/02/2026
Zur Förderung der Frauen in der Wissenschaft bietet die DFG zusätzliche Karrieremaßnahmen an, die über die Chancengleichheitspauschale finanziert werden können. Ziel ist es, Sichtbarkeit zu erhöhen, Qualifikation zu stärken und weitere Karriereschritte zu unterstützen. #WomenInScience sohub.io/ollu
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Maßnahmen zur Karriereförderung von Wissenschaftlerinnen
Vor dem Hintergrund der deutschlandweiten Unterrepräsentanz und von der weiterhin bestehenden strukturellen Benachteiligung von Wissenschaftlerinnen auf Leitungsebene können Karrierefördermaßnahmen de...
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Marie Winz @mariewinz.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
#PhDPosition open — #RibosomeBiology & #Translation QC 📍 JGU Mainz, Germany 🗓️ Apply by 10 Mar 2026 (or until filled) 🔗 Full details + project options: 👉 ak-winz.pharmazie.uni-mainz.de/jobs/
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Jobs/internships/theses | Winz Lab - AK Winz
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RTG 2355 @rtg2355.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Happy to announce our RTG 2355 International Conference “Regulatory landscapes of RNA: From code to control”, Sept 14-16, 2026 in Giessen, Germany. Topics cover #RNA as messenger, recruiting platform, sponge, regulator & sensor. 👉tinyurl.com/rtg2355conf Save the date – registration opens May 1!
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Universität Jena @uni-jena.de · 09/01/2026
Researchers of @hellmichgroup.bsky.social at #UniJena Cluster of Excellence @microverse.bsky.social have deciphered a key mechanism of antibiotic resistance. They showed how the bacterium applies the energy required to transport the drug out of its cell. ➡️ www.uni-jena.de/en/381040/sp...
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Specific activation instead of continuous operation: How bacteria save energy and what this means for antibiotic resistances
Researchers in the Cluster of Excellence “Balance of the Microverse” at the University of Jena decipher a key mechanism of antibiotic resistance pumps
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Sharma Lab @sharmalab.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
🚨We are looking for a coordinator located at @uni-wuerzburg.de for our new excellence cluster NUCLEATE - Cluster of Nucleic Acid Sciences and Technologies 👇 www.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/03... Deadline: Jan 31 st, 2026
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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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Dina Grohmann @curiousdina.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
A new year brings new opportunities: we are looking to fill a permanent professorship position with a Microbiologist preferably with expertise on archaeal biology, RNA biology or imaging techniques to unravel cell biology in prokaryotes! Please share and/or apply :)! www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Professurship (W2) in Microbiology - Regensburg (Stadt), Bayern (DE) job with Universität Regensburg | 12851113
UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   The Faculty of Biology and Pre-Clinical Medicine invites applications for a   Professurship (W2) in Microbiology   To be...
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GBM (Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie) @gbmev.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
That’s great news. mRNA vaccines are game changers-hopefully 2026 brings us more of these discoveries.
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Dina Grohmann @curiousdina.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Thanks to all who provide these illustrations for free - it helps so much for teaching etc! It’s like a Christmas present again and again ☺️
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
This is the "SEA SHEEP" (Costasiella kuroshimae) & it took the old axiom: "you are what you eat" VERY literally. It eats algae & rather than just digest them, it harvests the chloroplasts & becomes PHOTOSYNTHETIC. Solar slug! Also, some of its cousins can rip their own heads off.
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a close up of a green and white sponge with purple spots
Alt: A green and white sea sheep grazes on a green lawn of algae on a surface underwater.
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Westermann Lab @westermannlab.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
RIL-seq boosts the study of sRNAs. Here comes its first application to intracellular bacteria. Plus, 10 years after its characterization, we now present an RNA sponge of Salmonella PinT. Congrats to @kooshapour.bsky.social & great collaboration w/ @jorg-vogel-lab.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
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Intramacrophage RIL-seq uncovers an RNA antagonist of the Salmonella virulence-associated small RNA PinT
Abstract. Salmonella virulence chiefly relies upon two major pathogenicity islands, SPI-1 and SPI-2, which enable host cell invasion and intracellular surv
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Molecular Cell @cp-molcell.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Online Now: Toward community-driven visual proteomics with large-scale cryo-electron tomography of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Online now:
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Toward community-driven visual proteomics with large-scale cryo-electron tomography of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Using the latest advances in instrumentation and computational workflows, Kelley et al. present a large-scale annotated cryo-electron tomography dataset of the model green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. This unprecedented community resource is rich in high-resolution biological information and empowers the development of new methods for visual proteomics.
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GDCh Division of Biochemistry @gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
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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GBM (Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie) @gbmev.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
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Luiz Pedro Carvalho, PhD @luizcarvalholab.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
We’re excited to share our latest study that reshapes our understanding of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) lipid composition, with major implications for drug discovery, immunity, and vaccine development. www.nature.com/articles/s41... A thread.
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis overcomes phosphate starvation by extensively remodelling its lipidome with phosphorus-free lipids - Nature Communications
Here, the authors show that Mycobacterium tuberculosis manipulates lipid metabolism to overcome host restriction, by remodelling its lipidome and utilising host lipids as an alternative phosphate sour...
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Sträßer lab @straesserlab.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Proud to bring together so many excellent invited speakers for our RTG 2355 International Conference next September, and looking forward to welcoming you @jlugiessen.bsky.social! 👉 tinyurl.com/rtg2355conf
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Inga Hänelt @ihaenelt.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Take advantage of this fantastic opportunity to become part of the SCALE community! Several professorships and group leader positions are available at Goethe University and FIAS. We are looking for professors in the fields of molecular microbiology, cellular biochemistry, and molecular biochemistry.
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Jörg Vogel @jorg-vogel-lab.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Looking for a POSTDOC to work on jumbo phages (those with large genomes and fascinating cell biology), using our latest ASO technology (Gerovac M et al. 2025 Nature) to define RNA export mechanisms as well as to help to advance phage therapy. Here's the job ad.
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Eva Kowalinski @kowaeva.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Website and registration for the INSERM workshop on "Modern Methods in Molecular Parasitology" are now live! Open to all interested! Fantastic programme! ateliersinserm.dakini-pco.com/en
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GBM (Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie) @gbmev.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
GBM Lunch on December 17, 12:30 PM (CET) We’re excited to welcome Mikel Garcia-Marcos (Boston University) presenting: “The Secret Life of G Proteins” Session chair: Tassula Proikas-Cezanne (@unituebingen.bsky.social) Organized by the GBM Study Group Autophagy. #GBMLunch #Autophagy #GProteins
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Olivier Duss @olivierduss.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The story of how multiple RBPs cooperate to repress translation is now out in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social by @marcopayr.bsky.social and in a great collaboration with @hennig-lab.bsky.social! www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Michaela Müller-McNicoll @mixmue.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
It’s out 🥳🥳. Amazing new insights into Paraspeckles by SMART 3D STED imaging. Paraspeckles can be polar and fuse and have an interesting loop that contacts the nucleoplasm. Kudos to @heilemannlab.bsky.social, Sjoerd Stallinga and Bernd Rieger.
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Heilemann Lab @heilemannlab.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Exceptional work by Enya (TU Delft) and Laurell (Frankfurt) 💪 and a great team 👍 & great support by our Exc Cluster @scale-cluster-ffm.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social & we thank our Editor and the Reviewers for their valuable input @natcomms.nature.com #FluorescenceFriday #smartmicroscopy #RNA
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Schwalbe Lab @schwalbe-lab.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
New publication alert 🎉 Our latest paper explores how small molecules can bind SARS-CoV-2 RNA, combining in silico screening with NMR experiments to uncover promising RNA-targeting candidates. full text: chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #RNA #NMR #screening #drugtargeting
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Integrative In Silico and In Vitro Screening of Low Molecular Weight Compounds Targeting SARS‐CoV‐2 RNA Elements
A combined virtual and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-based screening approach identifies small molecules that bind conserved SARS-CoV-2 RNA structures. Diverse compound libraries are screened usin...
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Chris H. Hill @chillzaa.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
🚨Attention prospective PhD students🚨 Are you interested in molecular mechanisms, RNA viruses, structural biology or biophysics? 🧬🦠🧪 We have THREE fully-funded PhD projects available for October 2026 entry: www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor... Please share/repost, and get in touch if you're interested
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chris hill PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships - 3 PhDs Listed
FindAPhD. Search Funded PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships in chris hill. Search for PhD funding, scholarships & studentships in the UK, Europe and around the world.
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GBM (Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie) @gbmev.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
🎓 PhD completed? Apply for the 𝐆𝐁𝐌 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 (€1,500) 🔬 Open to outstanding research in biochemistry & molecular biology. 🗓 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 30 Nov 2025 📍 Awards at the Mosbach Colloquium 2026 Self-nominations welcome, GBM membership not required. 👉 gbm-online.de/en/news-even... #PhDlife #Awards
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Martin Thanbichler @thanbichlerlab.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
📢 Postdoc position: Biochemistry & Bacterial cell biology in our group at Marburg University, Germany, funded by the ERC Advanced Grant "C-SWITCH" 🔗More information at shorturl.at/OlvlL 📅Deadline: Nov 30, 2025 Please repost. #Postdoc
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GBM (Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie) @gbmev.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
GBM Lunch on Nov. 19, 12.30pm Speaker: Adrian Bunzel, @mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social Title: Creating Enzymes by Computational Design and Directed Evolution Chair: Valentina Piano @valentinapiano.bsky.social (CECAD, Köln) Organized by GBM Young Investigators. #GBMLunch #GBM_YI
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Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · 31/10/2025
📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Full Professorship in Integrative Structure Biology with a focus on in situ structural biology using cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) and related methods. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/brswbymu
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Martin Thanbichler @thanbichlerlab.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
📢 Postdoc position: Cell Biology of Cyanobacteria in my group, as part of the Excellence Cluster "Microbes for Climate" (M4C) in Marburg, Germany. More information at shorturl.at/wNnDT (see Project 2) 🔗Apply at shorturl.at/VsEDl 📅Deadline: Nov 16, 2025 Please repost. #Postdoc
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Olivier Duss @olivierduss.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Excited to share my first PhD student’s @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! Tracking 5 dyes simultaneously Kavan Gor @embl.org tracks nascent #RNA folding during #ribosome assembly to correlate structural with functional information on single RNA molecules! Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Michaela Müller-McNicoll @mixmue.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Join the SCALE Community!
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Schlundt lab @lab-nmr.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Postdoc position available, fully funded for 3y!!! The interdisciplinary project covers the structural biochemistry of a versatile nucleic acid binding protein in RNA-viral defense! The official job post can be found through our homepage: biochemie.uni-greifswald.de/forschung/fo... Or DM for more!
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Analytische Biochemie - Fakultät - Universität Greifswald
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PHD Comics @phdcomics.com · 16/10/2025
Enjoy it while it lasts
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Danny IncaRNAto @incarnatolab.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
So excited to see this out in @natgenet.nature.com! An amazing collaboration with @gagneurlab.bsky.social, I am happy I was (a small) part of. Nucleotide dependencies can capture regulatory elements, including #RNA structures! Congrats to the whole team! Check it out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Nucleotide dependency analysis of genomic language models detects functional elements - Nature Genetics
Mapping pairwise nucleotide dependencies by leveraging genomic language models highlights functional genomic elements and predicts deleterious genetic variants more effectively than alignment-based conservation metrics.
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Jörg Vogel @jorg-vogel-lab.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Two group leader positions available in the broader areas of RNA science, RNA technologies, and RNA medicine. Attractive packages and a great environment. Come and join us at Helmholtz RNA Würzburg, Bavaria.
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Schlundt lab @lab-nmr.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
We are hiring a PhD student!! The project starts as early as January 2026 and is fully funded for three years. Everyone with interest in NMR-centered structural biochemistry of nucleic acid-protein interactions in virus-infected cells, get in contact! biochemie.uni-greifswald.de/forschung/fo...
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GBM (Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie) @gbmev.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Join us for the next GBM Lunch on Oct 8th at 12:30 Speaker: Sven-Erik Behrens from Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg Title: RNA-based plant protection Chair : Dorothee Staiger (@staigerlab.bsky.social, Bielefeld University) Organized by: GBM Study Group "Biochemistry of Plants" #GBMLunch
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PHD Comics @phdcomics.com · 22/09/2025
How many PhDs does it take...
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WeigandLab @weigandlab.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
TT Lecturer position at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Deadline for application October 26th. Please share the link: stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/2... #pharmacy #teaching
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Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in
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GBM (Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie) @gbmev.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Next GBM Lunch on Sept. 24, 2025 (12:30)! 🧬 Join us for an exciting lecture by Annemieke Aartsma-Rus @oligogirl.bsky.social (Dept. of Human Genetics, Leiden University) on "Development of exon skipping ASO therapy". Chair: Julia Weigand (Philips University Marburg) #GBMLunch
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