Archiv 2021
December 2, 2021
Corona virus – Thomas Brocker, Jan Kranich and team identify new marker for assessing the severity of Covid-19
November 23, 2021
Autoimmunity – Gesine Behrens, Vigo Heissmeyer and team discover how the interaction of Roquin-1 and Regnase-1 proteins controls immune cell activation
November 17, 2021
Corona Course Symposium – A symposium on "Science and teaching in the pandemic" was held at the BMC on 11 November
November 15, 2021
BMC Postdoc Initiative – The virtual Postdoc Lunch Meeting on 3 December is dedicated to the topic of "Open Science"
November 11, 2021
BMC Trailblazer Lecture – The BMC invites the Munich Life Sciences community to a lecture by Anthony Hyman on 7 December
November 5, 2021
Chromatin Day 2021 - The Munich Chromatin Community meets on 9 December for a virtual event
November 2, 2021
Silent chromatin – Magdalena Murawska, Sigurd Braun and colleagues study how silent parts of the genome are protected from activation
October 27, 2021
Epigenetics - Ralph Rupp, Daniil Pokrovsky and colleagues investigate how cell proliferation influences epigenetic modifications
October 22, 2021
m4 Award 2021 – For their innovative approaches in metabolism research, a team led by Andreas Ladurner wins the m4 Award 2021
October 19, 2021
Immune system - Christoph Scheiermann, Stephan Holtkamp and team show that the activity of the immune system follows a 24-hour rhythm
October 14, 2021
Gene regulation - Gunnar Schotta and his team identify a silencing factor for endogenous retroviruses
October 14, 2021
Neurodegenerative diseases – Christian Haass and colleagues show that brain immune cells take up larger amounts of glucose than previously thought
October 11, 2021
RNA regulation in muscle - Maria Spletter and her team identify multiple RNA binding proteins with muscle-specific functions in Drosophila
September 14, 2021
Immune system – Barbara Schraml, Natallia Salei and colleagues identify a specific subtype of immune cells that mitigates toxicity-induced kidney damage
September 1, 2021
RNA-binding proteins – A team led by Vigo Heissmeyer identifies the RBPome of T helper cells
August 25, 2021
DNA damage repair – Sigurd Braun and his team investigate repair mechanisms of repetitive ribosomal DNA
July 30, 2021
Reprogramming of astrocytes – A team led by Giacomo Masserdotti and Magdalena Götz discovers region-specific effects on direct astrocyte-to-neuron conversion
July 28, 2021
PhD prizes - Samira Parhizkar und Manuel Lasch are awarded prizes for their excellent PhD research by the Munich University Association
July 23, 2021
Meme contest - Munich Life Science Graduate Network launches First Meme Art Contest for PhD students
July 15, 2021
Munich Postdoc Day – Registration for the first, virtual Munich Postdoc Day on 9 September is open
July 15, 2021
Modulation at the synapse - Rico Schieweck, Michael Kiebler and colleagues show how RNA-binding proteins modulate different aspects of synaptic responses
July 5, 2021
Teaching in the pandemic - Christine Wild-Bode and her team win the LMU Teaching Innovation Award for their online corona course
June 24, 2021
Autoimmunity – The Meinl Lab deciphers the interaction of autoantibodies and their target protein
June 18, 2021
Evolution – Peter Becker, Raffaella Villa and colleagues investigate the evolution of gene regulatory mechanisms in flies (Photo: J. Greune/LMU)
June 10, 2021
Dynamic synapses – The labs of Sabine Liebscher and Katrin Willig for the first time performed long-term STED imaging in living brains to investigate minute changes of synapses
June 7, 2021
International network – PhD students from all over the world investigate the mechanisms of parasites in the network Cell2Cell that is coordinated by Sigurd Braun and Nicolai Siegel
May 26, 2021
Research funding – The Collaborative Research Cluster 1064 “Chromatin dynamics” is extended for four more years
March 24, 2021
Science for everyone – Lecture series of the Campus Martinsried launches online offering
March 5, 2021
COVID-19 research – The Core Facility Animal Models and the BMC spin off Eisbach Bio join forces to develop an antiviral COVID-19 therapy
February 16, 2021
T cell exhaustion – Reinhard Obst and his team investigate T helper cell responses to chronic antigens
February 15, 2021
Responsible Research 2021 – Registration for the virtual event on 25-26 March is open
February 15, 2021
Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging – All videos of the Beginners Guide to FLIM 2020 are available online now
February 2, 2021
Apoptosis - Tanja Bange and colleagues describe a novel mechanism of cellular quality control
January 25, 2021
Multiple Sclerosis – A team led by Martin Kerschensteiner shows how inflammatory reactions in the brain grey matter damage neurons
Januar 19, 2021
Immune reaction – Barbara Schraml and her team elucidate the function of dendritic cells in early life (Picture: S. Rambichler)
January 12, 2021
Gene expression – Nicolai Siegel and his team show on a molecular level how parasites evade the immune system
6 Dec 21
BMC in Advent
The second BMC Advent calendar lights up the campus.
02 Dec 21
New marker for better assessing the severity of Covid-19
Thomas Brocker, Jan Kranich and team have found a new marker in the blood of Covid-19 patients. It furnishes insights into the course and development of the disease and could lead to better diagnoses.